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Head of Theology and Ethics

The Windsor Boys' School, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 5EH

This job expired on 18 March 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  18 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Philosophy, Religious Education
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS + TLR

Head of Theology and Ethics job summary

Applicants must be able to teach at all Key Stages and to all abilities and be an outstanding classroom practitioner. The successful candidate will take a key leadership role in developing the teaching and learning in our Ethics Department.

Teaching at The Windsor Boys’ School provides excellent opportunities for professional development and career enhancement through:

• A highly supportive and friendly working environment.
• Opportunities to work with other school networks, both locally and nationally.
• Supportive parents and motivated students.
• Opportunities to become involved in a vast range of curriculum enrichments, including trips abroad.
• Sixth form teaching that is combined with our partner, Windsor Girls’ School.
• Good links with local businesses, universities and prestigious private schools.
• Excellent local sports and cultural facilities.
• Direct access to the centre of London.

Windsor Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects 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 (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks. CVs will not be accepted in place of an application form.

If you are interested in applying for this position please access the school’s website where further information can be found: www.twbs.co.uk or alternatively email Mrs Howarth at jhowarth@twbs.co.uk

Applications will be considered upon receipt.

Head of Department

Main purpose of the job:

Raise and maintain high standards of attainment and progress of all students in the subject

Ensure the gap between attainment of disadvantaged students and SEND students compared to their peers is narrowed.

Develop and maintain a high quality of teaching and learning experience within the subject

Build and develop and effective team in the subject.

Be a model of excellent practice for others and a highly effective classroom practitioner

Responsible to a Head of Faculty

Leadership and management

If appropriate, deputise for the Head of Faculty in their absence

Support and implement the vision and ethos of the school

Support the work of the Head of faculty by working on the School Development Plan relevant to your subject

Ensure that the work of the subjects is inclusive and issues are addressed in curriculum and/or pastoral management

Support the HoF to ensure policies are translated into practice by the team and that you bring to the attention of SLT any which may need revisions or amendments

Together with HoF, lead on the school self-evaluation process for your subject including lesson observations, work, scrutiny, monitoring of standards and bringing about improvement

Promote cross curricular approaches to teaching and learning

Be an effective role model for your team in terms of teaching, behaviour and classroom management

Liaise with other local schools on projects and curriculum development

Organise at least one whole event each year that promotes and develops your subject area(s)

Support the HoF to ensure that administrative work of the Faculty is undertaken.

Teaching and learning responsibility

Lead the department and promote the subjects across the school.

Provide clear guidance of strategies for effective teaching and learning.

Keep abreast of local and national subject initiatives

Have overall responsibility and accountability for your department ensuring curriculum continuity, consistency, balance, match and progression

Develop, demonstrate and/or promote teaching and learning activities appropriate to full age and ability range.

Teach your subject across the school through team teaching with class teachers, teaching individuals and groups of learning, teaching exemplary lessons for staff development .

Monitoring and assessment

Monitor standards including recorded work as relevant to your Faculty including reviewing long and medium term planning

Initiate appropriate forms of subject assessment of student progress in accordance with school policy

Ensure assessments/examination papers are prepared in good time, and administered professionally

Manage resources

Be responsible for the organisation, planning and evaluation of the curriculum as relevant to the subject

Manage, monitor and accurately account for any budget for your area.

Evaluate, organise and monitor the use of resources

Effectively communicate to staff about school visits and events that would enhance the teaching of your subject areas.

Staff development

Act as a reviewer with the arrangements for the appraisal of all identified staff as required

Take a lead role in identifying group and/or individual training needs and provide support for colleagues within your Faculty.

Act as a role model, mentor or consultant to colleagues as appropriate and encourage collaboration, co-operation and teamwork

Ensure your keep up to date with current developments in your subject area and disseminate information as appropriate

Commitment to safeguarding

Windsor Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects 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 (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks. CVs will not be accepted in place of an application form.
If you are interested in applying for this position please access the school’s website where further information can be found: www.twbs.co.uk or alternatively email Mrs Howarth at jhowarth@twbs.co.uk

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About The Windsor Boys' School

• School type: Academy, ages 13 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 966 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 13 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Windsor Boys' School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-windsor-boys-school-windsor

The Windsor Boys' School is a 13-19 boys' school which seeks to retain the best of a traditional ethos based upon over 100 years of achievement, with a modern, forward- thinking approach that prepares young men for success in the 21st century.

We provide our students with a variety of challenging opportunities for learning, development and growth. They will learn that personal and social development involves taking responsibility not only for themselves, but also for all those around them. Our success will be measured both by first-class examination results and also the extent to which we provide an environment in which students are happy and can flourish.

To achieve this, we aim to be a school where:

• every student has the opportunity to reach his full potential through lessons that are academically challenging and engaging;

• there is an enthusiasm for learning, an encouragement of effort and a celebration of success;

• fairness, hard work and discipline are respected by all;

• there is outstanding provision for extra-curricular activities;

• students feel valued and are an active member of the community;

• students are well-equipped for life in a diverse and changing society.

Our curriculum is broad and balanced offering learning across the full range of subjects, and personalised appropriately to meet individual needs. Although there is a large core of traditional subjects on offer, we deliver high quality STEM pathways and vocational qualifications too. The school delivers a very positive value added score and the core subjects are consistently above average for pupil progress: the school’s progress 8 measurement is very strong and places us significantly above average for boys’ progress nationally. Students’ attainment and progress in mathematics and in other subjects at GCSE is outstanding, which is quite an achievement considering the school has a comprehensive intake.

At A level a very wide range of academic and vocational subjects are successfully delivered. There have always been high rates of university entrance. This is now the school of choice for many in the area both for achieving academic success and for its famous sporting prowess.

The school places great emphasis on developing the quality of teaching and increasing standards for learning. All teachers contribute to real action research as part of their professional development and often work across subject teams. For newly qualified teachers there is a strong programme of support from mentors and team leaders, as well as timetabled training sessions. For aspiring leaders we run programmes to enable them to experience middle leadership and senior leadership and gain appropriate qualifications. The school has a long history of working with GTPs and we are now a lead provider for Schools Direct.

Our high quality co-curricular provision provides tremendous opportunities for all, especially in the arts and in sport, as well as a wide range of more specialised activities, like a physics society, debating club and Duke of Edinburgh awards. Students represent the school at national and international level. The school is famous for sport and, above all, rowing. The school has a boat house on the nearby Thames and our under 18s have achieved tremendous success in recent years. Football has also seen real growth, culminating in the U16 team winning the national school’s FA cup. Similarly our rugby teams play against the major public schools and tour to Australia and Canada. Athletics, hockey, squash and cricket are also strong. We have a sports pavilion, extensive playing fields including a large AstroTurf pitch, and tennis courts.

The school is also a specialist arts college and consistently gains the Artsmark Gold award. Drama is famously good and ambitious often collaborating with girls from Windsor Girls' School. There is an excellent drama studio and a performing arts studio. Imaginative cross-curricular work in a languages and drama collaboration has been praised by Ofsted. Music is formidable – we have every kind of instrumental tuition and bands including a full orchestra, jazz band, close harmony singers and a strong choir that has performed at the Albert Hall. Our very successful band, famous for playing for the Queen, enjoyed a first in playing at the International Network of School Leaders in Beijing.

We have high expectations of student behaviour and expect good working relationships between teacher and student. The behaviour of pupils in the school is genuinely good and the atmosphere is relaxed and civilized - boys look you in the face and smile at their teachers. The strong professional relationship between teachers and pupils creates a safe learning environment which enables students to be successful in their learning.

The school was last inspected by Ofsted in May 2023 and was given a resounding ‘good’ judgement.

The school is a founding member of The Windsor Learning Partnership and is an academy in a multi academy trust with Windsor Girls’ School, and other local schools. Plans to expand further will afford many opportunities for staff and students alike and shape the next stage of the school’s development.

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