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Subject Leader Business & Economics
Highcliffe School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4QD19 days remaining to apply
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Business studies, Economics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 2B - £5,650
R&R Allowance up to £3,000
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an outstanding classroom teacher to lead this successful subject area. Experience of teaching at KS5 is desirable.
We are looking for a colleague with a record of excellent examination outcomes who will command credibility within Business & Economics, loves working in a team and has experience delivering creative, inspiring lessons which engage students of all levels of ability.
The school offers a very supportive and welcoming environment, a high-quality CPD programme including leadership and management support.
What the school offers its staff
The department is Business, Economics, Computing and IT or BECI. This team is currently six members of staff, and the Subject Leader BECI (Head of Business & Economics) line manages the Subject Leader (Head of Computing). Teaching staff are situated in five IT rooms, all equipped with computers, printers and projectors. Facilities are of a very high quality.
The department’s curriculum intent is:
- To give students a deep understanding and engage learners to enhance their awareness of current affairs and key Economic and Business topics to enrich and develop their cultural capital and prepare them for a rapidly changing external environment.
- To equip students with the analytical and evaluative skills required to form judgments and opinions about why key decisions are taken by the government and the impact on the world around us.
- We want learners to demonstrate that they can identify and use effectively, in an integrated way, an appropriate selection of skills, techniques, concepts, theories and knowledge to help them prepare for progression to employment, apprentices and further education.
The Business and Economics Curriculum:
At Key Stage 3 students study Business as part of the Key Stage 3 Computing Curriculum. In Year 9, students complete the Real Business Challenge, which is a combination of both theory and practical, resulting in students working in groups to produce a product and presentation based around a realistic, vocational brief. A final presentation will be presented to the rest of the class.
At Key Stage 4, students follow the AQA specification for five lessons per cycle. Our GCSE in Business Studies is very popular with four classes in Year 10 and four classes in Year 11. The GCSE in Business is taught by specialist teachers, the course allows students to gain in-depth understanding of how the business world works. They will see how a business works holistically, using relevant and up to date real life examples to help explain and apply the knowledge. Students will also gain experience of team working skills, research skills, creativity and other employability skills that will prepare the students for taking Business in Sixth Form or moving into an apprenticeship.
At Key Stage 4 we are introducing a second Business Studies pathway and from September 2025 we will be offering the Cambridge National Course in Marketing and Enterprise as an alternative to GCSE. The course explores the issues and activities involved in setting up, running and working in a business, in today’s challenging business environment. The Cambridge National Course has a strong focus on marketing techniques necessary to research and develop new products, in conjunction with the development of professional interpersonal skills and financial planning skills. The course is assessed in three units, with one exam and two pieces of non-examined assessment; to design a business proposal (RO68) and to market and pitch a business proposal (RO69).
At Key Stage 5, students can develop their study of Business, we offer a diverse pathway of A Level Business, BTEC Business and A Level Economics.
In A Level Business Studies students follow the Edexcel specification. The 9 hours a cycle teaching time is normally split between two teachers. Theme 1 Marketing and People and Theme 2 Managing Business Activities are taught in Year 12 and Theme 3 Business Decisions and Strategy and Theme 4 Global Business are taught in Year 13.
In BTEC Business students follow the Edexcel specification. The 9 hours a cycle teaching time is normally split between two teachers. Unit 1 Exploring Business and Unit 2 Developing a Marketing Campaign are both delivered in Year 12. Unit 3 Personal and Business Finance and Unit 8 Recruitment and Selection Process.
A Level Economics students follow the Edexcel specification. The 9 hours a cycle teaching time is normally split between two teachers. Currently, one teacher teaches Micro and the other teaches Macro. Theme 1 Introduction to markets and market failure, Theme 2 The UK Economy performance and policies, Theme 3 Business behaviour and the labour market, Theme 4 A global perspective. Students build knowledge and understanding of core economic models and concepts in Theme 1 and 2, and then build on this and apply their knowledge to more complex concepts and models in Themes 3 and 4 in Year 13.
Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, and the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.
Commitment to safeguarding
HISP MAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in the commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check, social media check and positive references.
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About Highcliffe School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1509 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Highcliffe School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- aparsons@highcliffeschool.com
- Phone number
- 01425 282323
Highcliffe is a remarkable school with a special atmosphere. We are very highly respected in our community, with whole generations of families coming here for over 50 years from Christchurch and the New Forest. Former students, current students and their parents frequently speak of their powerful emotional bonds to our school lasting a lifetime. Always popular, and usually over-subscribed, in the last two years our identity and success has attracted a rapidly growing number of admissions requests for Year 7. Although we have raised our PAN twice in three years, demand for places still exceeds availability. This is a result of our caring and aspirational ethos combined with our engaging curriculum and excellent extra-curricular opportunities, although our track record of exam success is surely another factor. Our students are lovely young people to work with who respond enthusiastically to good teaching and are keen to learn.
Former students go on to work in international finance, law, education, politics, engineering, medicine, science, and in the Paris fashion houses, or as great chefs, carers, artists, musicians, mechanics, gardeners and much more – but not before they have thrived at Highcliffe academically, creatively and socially. We have an excellent record of success placing students into the top universities in their chosen field. Every year for the last 10 years at least one of our Sixth Form students have, for example, gone on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. We have successful programmes for students accessing careers in medicine, the law and engineering. We are an outwardly focused community with extensive school links in Germany, France, Spain and Japan including a unique exchange programme with a school in Hiroshima.
Our teaching staff are highly experienced, knowledgeable professionals who work together superbly. Our SEND, pastoral, clerical, financial, technical and site staff, who form a good team, are also extremely good at their jobs and committed to the school’s success. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive environment in which to work or learn, located in a great part of the country. As part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust we offer our team extensive opportunities for professional development; direct collaborative working with Thornden School in Chandler’s Ford and more widely across the Trust region; and career progression routes associated with our development as a regional Hub for school improvement and professional development delivering NPQs, the local ECT programme, the Science Learning Partnership. We are a happy and upbeat school, characterised by warm and trusting relationships between staff and students; one big family. We recently completed a £1.8 million capital project improving heating and hot water, and in December 2022 successfully entered the School Rebuilding Programme to replace 18 classrooms with brand new buildings.
Arranging a visit to Highcliffe School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email aparsons@highcliffeschool.com.
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