LEAD SUBJECT TEACHER OF GEOGRAPHY
Rhyddings, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 3EAThis job expired on 12 April 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2021
Closing date
12 April 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 March 2021
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS-UPS 3
Additional allowances
TLR 2.2
LEAD SUBJECT TEACHER OF GEOGRAPHY job summary
Are you an enthusiastic, committed, qualified Geography Teacher? Do you want the challenge of leading a department? Are you an excellent classroom practitioner, creative & challenging, passionate & committed, who can maximise pupil potential?
We are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner who is both creative and challenging in their teaching. They will be passionate and committed to ensuring students maximise their potential and achievement. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to teach across our whole 11-16 age range and ability range and shape the future of the subject within the school.
The Department of two full time teachers will be led by the successful applicant. The post is vacant due to the planned retirement of the current post holder. The second teacher of geography completed their NQT with us and is now an RQT.
Pupils are well supported through our Pastoral House Continent system with year group tutoring supported by Continent Leaders. This provides the support pupils need to perform well across the curriculum as well as healthy competition throughout the year.
We have an active extra-curricular programme and run a number of annual residential trips both here and abroad. Close links with the local Rotary Club provide access to bespoke programmes, community work and charitable activities. Large numbers of pupils complete their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award.
We currently offer a GCSE in Geography at KS4 and this is a popular option within our curriculum. Pupils have 3 hours per week in both Years 10 and 11. At KS3 all pupils cover a range of the National Curriculum. Experiential learning has been a feature of our curriculum with fieldwork, trips and visits taking place right from Year 7 with an annual assent to the top of Pendle Hill. Trips to local rivers, streams and towns take place to study both physical and human geography in action. The department has teamed together with the Travel and Tourism teacher for an annual visit to Holland, to mention some of their curriculum enrichment.
We have a 3 year KS3 and 2 year KS4 offering EBacc, should pupils choose to do so.
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.
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About Rhyddings
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 556 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Rhyddings website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- worthingtong@rhyddings.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01282 683 040
Welcome to Rhyddings Business & Enterprise School, which serves the East Lancashire old mill town of Oswaldtwistle and surrounding area of Hyndburn. It has been at the heart of the community for over 85 years and although a smaller than average high school we cater for pupils from a diverse range of backgrounds. The school enjoys good transport links via the M65 corridor and adjoining networks of M6 and M66.
The school is in a period of transition, quite literally with a planned capital building programme. Uniquely, whilst this is taking place the school has been temporarily off-site for the academic years 2019-2021, to allow for demolition and construction work. Therefore, we are currently based at Hameldon College, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley for this academic year but return to Oswaldtwistle in September 2021.
Arranging a visit to Rhyddings
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email worthingtong@rhyddings.co.uk.
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