Lead Practitioner MFL (preferably French)

Ernulf Academy, St. Neots, PE19 2SH

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  21 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Modern Languages
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £52,301.00 - £57,720.00 Annually (Actual)

Lead Practitioner MFL (preferably French) job summary

Lead Practitioner of MFL (French) – Ernulf Academy

Ernulf Academy is on a mission to be the most improved school across Cambridgeshire. Do you want to be part of the journey to transform a community school?

We are seeking a full-time Lead Practitioner of MFL (preferably French) to join our thriving team. Support the Head of MFL in leading and developing the department, and help raise standards of student attainment and achievement. Join a team of experienced, reflective, and enthusiastic subject-specialists committed to maintaining high levels of behaviour and discipline.

Our Vision and Values: At Ernulf Academy, we are driven by our core values of Scholarship, Curiosity, Tenacity, Responsibility, and Respect. These values underpin every action and conversation within our school, guiding us to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, ensuring they have the option to go to university or pursue an aspirational alternative.

What We Offer:

• A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and traditional T&L approaches.
• Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources.
• Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team.
• A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback.
• Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system.
• Highly visible/supportive senior leaders.
• Centralised detentions, including homework detentions.
• No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching.
• Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region.
• Opportunity to complete NPQs.

What We Are Looking For:

• A highly effective and inspiring leader who can motivate and encourage colleagues.
• Someone aligned to our values and mission.
• Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs.

Interested in Applying? If you’re interested in this role, looking for a new challenge, or have a passion for education, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy.

Safeguarding and Diversity: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.

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About Ernulf Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 733 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ernulf Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ernulf-academy

Principal’s welcome – Ernulf Academy

Welcome to Ernulf Academy, an 11-16 secondary school in St.Neots located in North Cambridgeshire. The academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust, a highly successful multi-academy trust of primary and secondary academies in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire.

Ernulf Academy is a school fully committed to an inclusive, comprehensive curriculum for all, which is underpinned by our five core values: scholarship, curiosity, tenacity, responsibility and respect. These values are at the heart of our vision for the school and the important qualities and characteristics we want all pupils to develop. Our pupils are encouraged to develop confidence, independence and resilience. We strive for them to be ambitious and ‘be the best they can be’, whilst being considerate, tolerant and willing to contribute positively to the wider community.

Work hard

We firmly believe in a disruption free learning environment and as such we have established nine core routines which form the basis of our academic day. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge,’ underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching and learning following evidence-based research by Rosenshine and Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) which lead to inspiring and stimulating lessons. Our enrichment provision aims to take learning outside the classroom and we offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including sporting activities, residential visits and educational experiences.

Safeguarding is at the heart of what we do and we recognise the challenges that our pupils face. Therefore, we have a dedicated pastoral team with a Head of Year and Pastoral Co-ordinator for each year group and a ‘Wellbeing’ team including our school therapy dog.

Be kind

Ernulf Academy is a friendly and supportive school, which prides itself on treating everyone as individuals and having a ‘family’ atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect, and we have a zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core but enabling our pupils to have a holistic education, preparing them for life in the 21st century and becoming global citizens is just as important.

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