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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    28 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    12 March 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Science

Working pattern

Full time: 1.00fte.

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPR/UPR

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Cowplain School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and ambitious Teacher of Science to join our expanding Science and Technology department. You should be aspiring to be an excellent classroom practitioner and have students at the heart of your work.

We are looking for somebody who is creative in the classroom and is able to engage a wide range of students. This role is suitable for an ECT, who will benefit from a comprehensive range of support and guidance. At The Cowplain School, we operate as one Science and Technology Department, and there will be opportunities for the successful candidate to possibly teach technology as well as science. Science staff have found the application of science, particularly physics, into real world engineering engaging and useful in shaping their teaching practice.

We are extremely ambitious for our 1000 students and have a strong vision to ensure that the life-chances of every young person are enhanced by quality teaching, leading to excellent outcomes.

What the school offers its staff

As a teacher at Cowplain we would invest in you to ensure that you develop the skills and expertise needed to ensure the students that you teach acquire skills vital to their future. All classrooms in the Science department are based together and were recently refurbished and enhanced. All teachers teach in their own room, equipped with projector and screen, and every teacher receives a laptop. We offer all members of staff a full induction programme and significant opportunities to develop their expertise. Colleagues at the school work together to support each other and we have an active wellbeing committee.

If you would like work in a growing and exciting department, we would love to hear from you. You will join a committed, successful and supportive team.

Further details about the role

To request an application pack please email Mrs Amanda Simmons via a.simmons@cowplainschool.co.uk or access via www.cowplainschool.co.uk/about-us/vacancies. If you wish to apply for this post you will need to return a fully completed ‘The Cowplain School’ application form to Mrs Amanda Simmons, PA to the Principal, via email or post to The Cowplain School, Hart Plain Avenue, Cowplain, Waterlooville, Hants, PO8 8RY.

The closing date for receipt of fully completed application forms is midday on Friday 28th March 2025.


Commitment to safeguarding

The Cowplain School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to a.simmons@cowplainschool.co.uk

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Additional documents

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About The Cowplain School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
995 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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School location

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