Lead Practitioner of MFL (French &/or Spanish)
Royds Hall, A Share Academy, Huddersfield, HD3 4HA10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- French, Languages, Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time: Part time considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- To be negotiated with successful candidate
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential Criteria
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Degree or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development and a willingness to undertake further development as appropriate.
- Evidence of being an excellent classroom practitioner, capable of inspiring students and forming good relationships with colleagues.
- Successful experience or the ability to teach subject at GCSE
- Successful experience or the ability to teach subject at KS3
- Able to develop strategies for engaging students, develop the curriculum and secure improvements
- Able to analyse data with a view to developing strategies to improve performance
- Detailed knowledge of current developments in subject area for all levels
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent behaviour management skills
- A willingness to be fully involved in the wider life of Royds Hall, including extra-curricular activities.
- Able to view department goals in a whole school context
- Knowledge of innovative teaching and learning strategies
- Highly competent in ICT and the use of computers
- Good role model in terms of promoting the trust’s aims and values, together with professional standards for teachers and leaders.
- Is willing to work flexibly within scope of overall hours, e.g. evening meetings.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of implementing departmental school strategies
- Able to view department goals in a whole school context
- Evidence of sharing evidence-based teaching and learning strategies
• Able to monitor and evaluate impact of interventions and strategies
What the school offers its staff
Why apply to join SHARE Multi Academy Trust?There are many reasons why you will enjoy working for the trust. You will be surrounded by supportive people, working together with a common goal for all of our students, aiming to value and support all colleagues in order to help them achieve their personal best.If you decide to join us, we will ensure you have what you need to make a positive difference in your education role. We will seek out your ideas and ask for your opinions regularly using staff voice.Our CPD commitment is second to none and the training and developmental opportunities on offer will empower you to make improvements in all aspects of your role. The training you receive will help you fulfil your potential whatever your stage of career.For teachers and leaders, we offer fast tracked, first class developmental opportunities led by one of our academies, Shelley College, which is the Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale: -• National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), which underpin our structured training programmes (we offer all the qualifications);• Lead practitioner positions for colleagues who want to remain classroom- based but lead on curriculum development or training and coaching;• Mentor / facilitator training and experience which give experienced colleagues the opportunity to develop through mentoring initial teacher trainees, early career teachers or NPQ candidates – right up to NPQEL facilitators;• Trainee senior leadership positions, which build on our middle leadership programmes. This training includes short placements in other schools and a substantial improvement project under the guidance of an experienced leader.All our academies have comprehensive professional development programmes for support staff. We support colleagues in their role by offering regular training, coaching and mentoring using the latest evidence-based research. Our trust collaboration draws on best practice to share the expertise available. Our support staff meet with colleagues across the trust every September to share ideas and resources. With regard reward and recognition, we recognise and appreciate our staff as our most valuable asset, we recognise the work they do and celebrate their successes.We offer a wide range of benefits including: -• Employee assistance programmes catering for the individual wellbeing needs of staff;• Wellbeing champions and designated wellbeing resources for staff;• Flexible working opportunities (where practical);• Occupational sick pay, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave;• Competitive pension schemes with the opportunity for shared cost AVCs;• Money saving ‘salary sacrifice’ cycle scheme and tech scheme.
Further details about the role
1.To work with the Trust Subject Director for MFL and Head of Modern Foreign Languages and teachers to promote and facilitate the delivery of excellent teaching and learning in MFL and to:
- To support MFL Leadership in accordance with the school’s aims and ethos.
- Ensure that the curriculum plans are ambitious, well sequenced and spiralled to ensure that students are knowing more and remembering more over time.
- Improve students’ levels of progress and attainment in French and/or Spanish across all key stages.
- Steer improvements in the quality of curriculum implementation across all key stages.
- Support high standards of student behaviour for learning and engagement.
- Contribute to maintaining a safe environment for students.
2. Share best practice with post holders and teaching staff in the MFL department to promote and facilitate the delivery of excellent teaching and learning.
3. Ensure a suitable curriculum, in line with national developments, is in place for students of all abilities studying Modern Foreign Languages.
4. Monitor and plan the curriculum to secure effective sequencing of lessons and the building of knowledge over time.
5. Improve students’ levels of progress and attainment.
6. Coach and guide colleagues to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
7. Support high standards of student behaviour for learning and engagement.
8. Ensure students work in safe environment, taking responsibility for ensuring the risks are identified and managed well.
9. Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in the department.
10. Support other teachers to raise standards by sharing good practice and collaborating with colleagues to plan curriculum developments.
11. Agree clear, achievable outcomes with staff and/or students.
12. Help colleagues that you line manage to produce their own personal development plan. Review progress towards objectives consistently within the school’s framework for benchmarking.
13. Devise and implement strategies for narrowing the progress gap in MFL for different groups of students.
14. Track students’ progress, rewarding success and intervening to improve standards.
15. Contribute to the overall direction of the school by attending selected senior leadership team meetings and helping to devise and implement whole-school policies.
16. Support other faculty leaders by sharing good practice and acting as a link to the senior leadership team from time to time.
17. Maintain a visible presence around the school, supporting duty teams and others by insisting upon and helping to maintain high standards of student conduct in lessons and around the school.
18. To respond flexibly to curriculum changes that may be required from time to time, including alterations to line management responsibilities within the scope and scale of this role.
19. To undertake any other duties associated with the role, as may be decided by the senior leadership team/Headteacher.
Commitment to safeguarding
SHARE MAT is committed to the Equalities Act 2010 and also to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children and young people, by adhering to the “Keeping Children Safe in Education” guidance. All staff and volunteers are regularly trained regarding our expectations in keeping our students safe. An enhanced DBS is required for every post
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About Royds Hall, A Share Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1221 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Royds Hall, A Share Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- royds.recruitment@sharemat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01484463366
Being part of SHARE Multi-Academy Trust and Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale, provides staff a wealth of support and a wide range of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across the Trust and also with the wider Calderdale and Kirklees network. This means we can offer the successful candidate access to a fantastic support network, CPD and opportunities to develop practice. Royds Hall is a small secondary school that achieved a Progress 8 score of 0.01 in 2022. We are exceptionally proud of the progress that has been made in school over the last four years, it has most certainly been a wonderful trajectory of improvement. We enjoy strong behaviour for learning and a curriculum that is ambitious for all and well sequenced. Staff wellbeing is central to our vision of ‘valuing people, supporting personal best’. Visitors and staff regularly share that the school is warm and supportive with high expectations for all. This team ethos pervades everything we do.
We also offer pupils a wealth of extended learning opportunities from; Royds Hall Scholars, Duke of Edinburgh, debating society, Steam Lab to knitting for fun. The PE department support our pupils to represent the school in a wide range of sports including Basketball, Netball and Athletics. We take part in the annual Speakers’ Trust event and have been successful in reaching the final in recent years. Pupils gain from a wealth of opportunities offered including leadership opportunities in every year group. In 2022, 100% of pupils took part in an extended learning opportunity. A strong belief exists that offering a wide range of extended learning opportunities ignites pupil interests and allows them uncover skills and abilities that support their sense of achievement and happiness in school and into adulthood. We believe that every child can succeed and it is our privilege to provide them the opportunities to identify their talents and their future dreams and aspirations.
As a teaching professional, the curriculum allows you the flexibility to create an inspiring, exciting learning journey for all pupils enabling them to develop into active citizens of the future, empowered to make their best contribution to society. The Curriculum is developed in a thematic and practical way that engages both our employees and young people. We seek ways to make our curriculum even more interesting every year and you have the ability to do this at Royds Hall. Lessons are fascinating, engaging, exhilarating, and demand that pupils think for themselves whilst ensuring pupils see a purpose to their work.
Royds Hall is a wonderful place to work, where you will have the opportunity to make a difference every single day.
Arranging a visit to Royds Hall, A Share Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email royds.recruitment@sharemat.co.uk.
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