Head of French
Calthorpe Park School, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 5JAThis job expired on 15 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
15 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- French, German, Languages, Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
Additional allowances
TLR2b
What skills and experience we're looking for
- A teacher must set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.
- Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils.
- Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge.
- Teach to the Top and provide appropriate scaffolding and support to enable all students to achieve their potential
- Make accurate and productive use of assessment
- Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment.
- Fulfil wider professional responsibilities.
- Teachers uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school.
- Teachers must have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school in which they teach and maintain high standards in their own attendance and punctuality.
- Teachers must have an understanding of, and always act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities.
What the school offers its staff
Students are allocated a language on admission to Calthorpe Park School This is either French, German or Spanish. Students continue studying this language until the end of their KS3 studies.
Currently, students at Calthorpe Park School follow a 3 year GCSE curriculum. At KS4 students can opt to continue with the language that they have studied at KS3 to GCSE level. French, German and Spanish are all taught to GCSE level. The uptake in languages is very good and the Modern Foreign Languages results are excellent. Results in French are particularly strong.
MFL at Calthorpe Park School is taught in mixed ability groups. The focus of the curriculum is to challenge and inspire students to have a lifelong love and appreciation of foreign languages and cultures. Although the learning of language and grammar is crucial, the department also focuses greatly on the acquirement of skills to build on the students’ independence and resilience. The majority of students have a very positive attitude towards their MFL lessons.
Commitment to safeguarding
Calthorpe Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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About Calthorpe Park School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1530 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Calthorpe Park School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- school.recruitment@cps.hants.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01252 613483
Calthorpe Park School is a highly successful place to learn and grow. The school is in an exciting phase of ongoing development as its numbers increase year on year within the context of outstanding standards of care and expectation. The school’s projected growth over a number of years creates many ongoing opportunities for staff to develop, enhance and advance their careers within the same institution. The recently completed building work also offers staff and students first class learning and teaching environments.
We pride ourselves on the excellence of our exam results but our ethos is to support all students to have the opportunity to succeed and the experience of success in a culture of care and consideration; challenge and commitment; respect and responsibility; integrity and impression. These four are the tenets of ‘The Calthorpe Way’. We aim to educate the whole child for the whole of their life: no ceilings or parameters; aspiring to excellence in everything we do.
Arranging a visit to Calthorpe Park School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email school.recruitment@cps.hants.sch.uk.
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