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  • Job start date

    1 September 2020

  • Closing date

    20 April 2020 at 9am

  • Date listed

    26 March 2020

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

Highly Competitive

Head of Geography job summary

The role

Do you want to lead a thriving Geography team on to the next stage of its development?

It is a very exciting time to join Avonbourne Academies and play a role in the transformational journey we are currently undergoing.

Geography is a thriving and successful subject area, and a very popular choice at GCSE and A Level.

The academies are part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Avonbourne Boys’ Academy, Avonbourne Girls’ Academy and Avonwood Primary all joined United Learning on the 1st August 2019. Avonbourne Girls’ Academy is currently graded as ‘Good’ by OFSTED. Avonbourne Boys’ Academy is a new academy and came into existence on the 1st August 2019. Harewood College, the predecessor school, was previously placed in Special Measures in February 2019.

We believe that all of the academies will provide an excellent education for all students by 2022. We are looking for someone that shares this belief and passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs.

The academies are all located together on the same campus in East Bournemouth. The campus is also home to United Sixth Form, a vibrant sixth form that provides a United Learning sixth form experience to students from across the United Learning Bournemouth and Poole cluster, as well as other external students.

The academies benefit from working very closely with Avonwood, Carter, Glenmoor, Winton and United Sixth Form Academies, as part of the United Learning Bournemouth and Poole cluster. We work as a team and achieve more, by sharing, than any single school could.

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide excellent education so that all young people are able to make a success of their lives. Our most important purpose is to teach young people things they would not learn outside school which empower them. We believe that ‘Knowledge Is Power’. We believe in teaching through explicit/direct instruction (Rosenshine and Engelmann) and utilising TLAC 2.0 techniques. Our mission is to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on a schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given them wide opportunity and prepared them for the ups and downs of life. We are driven by ‘REACH’ values: Respect, Enthusiasm, Ambition, Confidence and Hardwork.

We value our staff highly, and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.

About You

What we are looking for:

The successful candidate will be:

A highly effective Geography teacher
Aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here
Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Avonbourne Girls Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
989 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Avonbourne Girls' and Boys' Academies are based in Bournemouth and provide secondary education from KS3 through to KS5.

School location

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