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Expected start date
1 September 2021
Application deadline
14 April 2021 at 12:00 pm
Date listed
17 March 2021
Job details
- Job role
- Teacher, Suitable for NQTs
- Subject
- Food
- Working pattern
- Full-time only
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Salary
- Salary negotiable
Job summary
Job Purpose:
• To ensure that all students make maximum progress. This particularly applies to pupil premium students.
• To ensure students of all ages are supported and challenged as necessary and achieve optimum levels of engagement with school life.
• To support and challenge other members of the department as necessary thus ensuring that the student experience and progress is maximised.
• To help maximise student attendance by delivering creative, innovative and rewarding lessons.
• To role model excellent practices, actively encouraging other members of the department to do the same, going ‘above and beyond’, intervening with students outside the curriculum so they ‘catch up’ as quickly as possible.
• To support and challenge Heads of Year so that underachieving students have barriers removed from their learning and regularly show good learning behaviours including being properly equipped for lessons.
• To follow department and whole school guidelines eg deadlines are met, registers are taken, I pads are dropped off at the front of the class at the start of each lesson, students’ have challenging starter activities, the main parts of lessons involve students applying their newly acquired skills or knowledge regularly and expediently etc
• To ensure lessons are well planned and follow schemes of work with regular and consistent assessments providing students with high quality feedback which they are accountable for acting upon via DIRT marking.
• To encourage a culture of shared practice in the department where resources are shared, practices are discussed and peer lesson observations take place on a regular basis; typically half termly.
• To communicate with parents on a range of issues, particularly where students are underachieving.
• To communicate appropriate information to teaching and support staff.
• To contribute to a confidential record of issues affecting the educational progress of students.
• To be highly visible and a welcoming point of contact for students.
Safeguarding
• To be familiar with school policies, in particular safeguarding procedures, and promote the welfare of children.
Key responsibilities:
• To advocate the place of the department, in the curriculum and the benefits it will provide students once they leave school.
• Ensure vulnerable and pupil premium students can succeed through differentiation and stimulating lesson delivery.
• Demonstrate a specialism in Food and Nutrition specific subject delivery through KS4.
• Deliver multi-disciplined teaching across Textiles, Graphics and Resistant Materials at KS3.
• Be a highly visible point of contact for students and families when they require assistance or information relating to the department.
• Attend department and whole staff CPD sessions and meetings as required and actively engage in them.
• Ensure school uniform is worn correctly.
• Produce internal and external reports as necessary.
• To contribute to whole school events as necessary and weekly duties.
• Communicate effectively and purposefully with parents so they are well informed.
• Promote positive attitudes to learning and behaviour for learning with vulnerable students.
• Liaise with the SEND Department to ensure students with unique needs are effectively catered for.
• Uphold and promote the values and ethos of the school.
• The post holder will be expected to run after school, each week, at least two voluntary 45 minute academic ‘clinics’ on their own subject to a group of KS4 or KS5 students as identified by the Head of Department, Deputy Head (Curriculum) or Headteacher. This clinic will be part of a wider, whole school, extended day.
Applying for the job
To apply, please complete the application form and return to recruitment@blenheim.surrey.sch.uk
Supporting documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
School overview
- School type
- Academy
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1244 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Blenheim High School website (opens in a new window)
- Contact email
- recruitment@blenheim.surrey.sch.uk
- Contact phone number
- 01372 745333
About Blenheim High School
Comprehensive state funded academy secondary school [mixed], based in Epsom, Surrey.
Arranging a visit to Blenheim High School
Please contact recruitment@blenheim.sch.uk or call 01372 745333 to arrange a visit to the school
School location
Longmead Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 9BHSimilar jobs
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