Lead Practitioner of Science
Bodmin College, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1DDThis job expired on 15 May 2025
Start date details
01st September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS + TLR2B
Lead Practitioner of Science job summary
We are seeking an exceptional teacher of Science with the drive and ambition to lead the development of teaching in the Science department at Bodmin College.
Bodmin College is a rapidly transforming school. The students look smart, are prepared for learning and proud of their school. Science is a popular subject where students approach lessons with enthusiasm and a readiness to embrace investigative learning.
We are looking for a highly competent practitioner that has a secure understanding of evidence informed pedagogy and is an expert at adaptive practice.
Inclusion is at the heart of our school vision- we want every child to experience high quality first teaching that enables them to achieve highly, and you will have a key role in enabling this.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to model expert practice, to provide instructional coaching to colleagues in Science and to design and deliver training for the Science team. In addition to this, you will be part of a wider instructional coaching team in the school and support the continued development of teaching at Bodmin College.
As part of Cornwall Education Learning Trust, you will find that collaboration is at the heart of how we work and there will be many opportunities for you to work with colleagues across our schools to continue your own professional development and to learn from each other.
If you would like to have an informal conversation, or to visit the College in action, please contact Robyn Pooley, Deputy Director of Science via email – rpooley@bodmin.celtrust.org
Commitment to safeguarding
Bodmin College is committed to the care and wellbeing of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure
About Bodmin College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1558 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bodmin College website
Bodmin College is a large 11-19 establishment (with Area Resource Base - ARB) providing, extensive, high quality education and care. We maintain high standards of achievement and traditional values within a disciplined and caring environment. Students are encouraged to enjoy their education, to develop respect for others and, through assuming responsibility, to develop as reliable and mature individuals ready to take an active role in adult life.
Our College is characterised by its vision of, ‘striving for excellence by putting the learner first’. We aim, in all that we do, to put students at the centre of our decision making processes and at the heart of our four key objectives which are:
• To improve the attainment and progress of all students in all subjects
• To improve the educational opportunities for all students in all subjects
• To improve the quality of the learning experience for all students in all subjects
• To assist and work in partnership with parents and carers to improve students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
This vision and our objectives are underpinned by an ethos in which we expect everyone, ‘to be kind, be polite, to be honest and to work to the very best of their ability.
With notable success as a finalists in the UK Social Mobility Awards for two consecutive years, we pride ourselves on opening doors, creating opportunity and raising aspirations.
More recently, our journey with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has seen our committed involvement in ‘The Framework for Excellence. A journey towards a world-class education system’. Within this structure, assessment has been robust and challenging, yet one in which we have been successfully recognised as providing ‘exceptional education’ through our ‘principled curriculum design’, ‘leadership through moral purpose’ and in our ‘climate for learning’ (SSAT, 2017). We have received national recognition for raising aspirations, removing barriers to social mobility and opening up world-class opportunities to our students.
Bodmin College has recently been invited to participate in the ‘Connect the Classroom’ scheme through the DfE. This scheme will see a significant investment in the IT infrastructure within the college to improve WiFi and connectivity throughout the college campus.
In addition, the college has also been successful in the exciting School Rebuilding Programme which will see another significant level of investment to improve the buildings on our site. We are hopeful that this award will assist us in continuing to develop the learning environment for all our students and staff. It is a long term project which will help us to deliver our vision for excellent education in the local area.
We achieve this only through the dedication, commitment, passion and hard work of our staff. Our staff body are valued and cared for and their wellbeing, professional development and input are important to us.
Please note that Bodmin College is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.
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