Head of Government & Politics
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQThis job expired on 17 March 2025
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Politics
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £39,065.00 - £52,475.00 Annually (FTE) Teachers' Main/Upper Pay Scale + TLR2(1) £3,391
Head of Government & Politics job summary
The Humanities Faculty
The faculty currently consists of 26 teaching staff (16 full-time and 10 part-time) along with a part-time administration assistant. While teachers focus primarily on their specialist subject there is opportunity, particularly during parts of their Key Stage 3 teaching, for staff to teach in other Humanities-related areas. One of the great strengths of the faculty is the support and detailed programmes of work provided for non-specialists, both in terms of resources and in terms of the close team-room friendship and support provided.
Key Stage 3
In years 7 and 8 tutor groups are taught Geography, History and Religious Studies modules by the same teacher or by the same pair of teachers. In year 9 the same modular approach is taken in Geography and History, though with RS being taught separately by a subject specialist. History topics include a range of familiar English and global periods, “Slavery and Resistance”, “Holocaust and Genocides” and a "Conspiracies and Mysteries" module. Geography topics include Tectonics and The Geography of power and conflict, whilst RS topics include a study of work religions and Ethical Decision making.
Key Stage 4
Students in year 10 and 11 can opt to take one or more GCSE course in Business Studies, Geography, History or full-course Religious Studies. If not taking the full-course Religious Studies, students are automatically entered for the half-course GCSE.
Key Stage 5
Students in years 12 and 13 can opt to take one or more of the following A level subjects: Business Studies, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, Religious Studies and Sociology. Students can also take the BTEC Level 3 course in Business Studies.
The Politics department is a very popular A Level choice at Lord Williams's, we currently have two classes in both Year 12 and Year 13. We study the Edexcel specification, with Global politics. This is a popular option and we have many students who go on to study Politics and/or International Relations at University. We achieve consistently strong results and you will be supported by an experienced teaching team. In the two most recent externally examined years we have achieved strong results; 70% A*-C last year and 100% A*-C in 2023.
Extra Curricular Activities
The Politics team offers a number of extra-curricular opportunities; a visit to the Houses of Parliament and Supreme Court annually, attending the Model United Nations along with Education days with Oxford University Politics department at the Bodleian Library. During the last election, the department arranged a hustings for the entire Sixth Form. All party candidates for our constituency were invited and students asked questions and probed the potential MPs.
Humanities offers several trips each year to students. This usually includes visits each year to the Black Country Museum, the Imperial War Museum, Berlin, Southall Gurdwara and GCSE and A level Geography fieldwork trips to city and coast, as well as to local and London Conferences and the hosting of conferences at the school. There is also a plan to resume the annual trip to visit World War battlefields in Belgium and France.
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
About Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2276 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
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