Lead of French
St Peter's School, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 7DD4 days remaining to apply
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE) TLR 2A £8279
Lead of French job summary
We are a forward thinking and rapidly improving, “good” school that is creating a legacy of learning for our community. Our students Learn, Aspire and Exceed as they work with our highly skilled teaching and associate staff supporting and guiding them.
St Peter’s is part of The Cam Academy Trust which offers students and staff fantastic potential to collaborate, share and develop a wide range of teaching and learning across the schools in the trust. As a family of schools, we support, share and challenge each other to improve the future lives of all our young people.
We are currently seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated Lead of French. This is an exciting opportunity for the suitable candidate to raise the profile of French at St Peter’s School, supporting the development of our team, and motivating and supporting our students to ensure outstanding attainment.
As a supportive, hardworking and friendly team with a desire to raise student achievement beyond expectation, we have extensive resources to support teaching and learning and are constantly reflecting on our curriculum to make further improvements. We are seeking someone who will show their enthusiasm and be able to demonstrate their commitment by contributing to the innovation of pedagogy in our flourishing French team
We believe that every student has potential and we are always encouraging students to achieve their targets by offering full help and support. With excellent behaviour procedures and respectful students who are always eager to learn, the French department has been able to show sustained success in driving forward results.
St Peter’s prides itself in the professional development available to staff, we have had a number of staff complete a wide range of courses including: NPQML, and training with exam board providers as well as in house training.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Peter's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1449 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- St Peter's School website (opens in new tab)
St Peter's School, part of The Cam Academy Trust, is a mixed comprehensive school located in central Huntingdon, with approximately 1,000 11-18 students on roll. It is an exciting and rewarding place to work, both for teaching and non-teaching staff, and we are always interested in hearing from dynamic and enthusiastic people who want to make a difference to children's education.
“The school have been unrelenting in improving the provision for pupils at St Peter’s School. Consequently, this is a school that is improving strongly and sustainably over time.” –Ofsted March 2017
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