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Head of Geography

St Ivo Academy, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6RR

This job expired on 27 March 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  27 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Geography
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £56,033.00 - £61,851.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership scale points 5 to 9

Head of Geography job summary

Head of Geography – St Ivo Academy

Required September 2025

Full-time, Permanent Position

Are you a well-qualified and enthusiastic Geography teacher looking to lead a thriving subject area? If so, we want you to join our team at St Ivo Academy!

St Ivo Academy is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy located in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. With around 1600 students, including 150 in our Sixth Form, we are proud of our 70-year history and our strong ties to the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy, supporting students from all backgrounds and abilities.

Our Commitment:

We are dedicated to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behavior, and culture. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge, ‘the best that has been thought and said,’ and providing an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. Influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion,’ Rosenshine’s principles, and recent developments in cognitive science, we strive to create a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful. Our goal is to ensure impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and students to focus on learning.

Our Vision and Values:

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of their background, prior attainment, or needs. We aim to ensure that all our students have the option to go to university or pursue other aspirational alternatives. We do not lower expectations due to a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have special educational needs. Instead, we redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers and flourish.

What We Offer:

• Huge support and progression opportunities
• A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional teaching and learning approach based on Rosenshine’s principles and TLAC
• Collaborative planning with centralized, shared units of work and resources
• Excellent support from Astrea central team colleagues
• Opportunity to teach up to A Level
• A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
• Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
• Highly visible and supportive senior leaders who have your back
• Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (no need to organize/chase them)
• No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching to help you continuously develop
• Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region
• Opportunity to complete NPQs
• An unrivalled professional progression model
• A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire

What We Are Looking For:

• Highly effective professionals with excellent knowledge in their area of expertise
• Colleagues who are aligned to our values and mission. If you fit with our culture, you will love working here.
• Colleagues who passionately believe that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs. Someone who does not make excuses for what children can achieve.

Interested in Applying?

If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and lead our Geography department, we would love to hear from you. Please refer to the Applicant Brief for more details on the role and how to apply.

Our academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an Enhanced Child Workforce DBS check with Barred List, satisfactory medical, and employment references.

The academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window (if applicable).

Commitment to safeguarding

Our academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post would be subject to an Enhanced Child Workforce DBS check with Barred List, satisfactory medical and employment references.

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About St Ivo Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1627 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Ivo Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-ivo-academy

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to St Ivo Academy. We are an inclusive 11-18 academy which for the last 60 years has been privileged to serve the community of St Ives and its surrounding area.

Our vision for St Ivo Academy is:

We believe that all students, regardless of their starting point, should be guided and supported to develop the academic, social and moral understanding and behaviours to be successful and happy in their future.

As a community of students, staff and parents/carers we are respectful, polite and courteous to each other in all that we do.

The values we hold as being central to this are:

Respect

Resilience

Our ethos is, very simply:

Work hard, be kind

We believe that St Ivo Academy offers a unique mix of academic success and care for the individual. It is a great place to learn and to work. We are very proud of a school which is constantly evolving and adapting to provide the best education for the young people of St Ives.

You will find key information about the school on this site or for more regular updates use our Facebook, Instagram or Twitter accounts. You are, of course, very welcome to arrange a visit to see for yourself what St Ivo Academy has to offer.

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