
Teacher of Art with experience on Graphic Communications
Woolwich Polytechnic School, London, SE28 8ATThis job expired on 4 June 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
4 June 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 May 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time hours
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- QTS Pay Scale plus inner London Weighting
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful applicant will:
- Be suitably qualified and have experience required to perform the role to a high standard.
- Have experience of teaching Graphic Communications.
- Have a good awareness of what constitutes an ‘Outstanding’ lesson.
- Be a creative practitioner and one who is prepared to put forward ideas to help the department develop.
- Be able to work within a dynamic and challenging environment.
- Have excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Be able to demonstrate success within delivering the curriculum (including lesson preparation, assessing, and reporting on students’ work) using methodology and learning styles to maintain an effective learning environment within the ethos, rules and disciplinary systems of the Academy.
- Plan and teach well-structured, differentiated lessons that are aligned to the agreed curriculum and lesson elements.
- Contribute to curriculum design and schemes of work and ensure they are completed to high standard.
- Provide frequent and incisive pupil feedback in line with departmental policy.
What the school offers its staff
As a member of staff at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys we can offer you:
- Opportunities to contribute ideas and develop initiatives that improve the school
- Outstanding staff: professional, supportive and committed
- Opportunities for career progression
- Excellent professional development
- The opportunity to play your part to help provide a rewarding environment where students and staff feel valued and supported and everyone feels part of the ‘Poly Family’
- A contributory pension scheme
- Opportunities to collaborate with outstanding and dynamic teaching professionals
- Access to various discounts for a small monthly fee
- An employee assistance programme
- Season ticket loans
- Finders fees for personal introductions of staff that we employ
- Excellent catering facilities with complimentary daily coffee for staff
- Secure on-site parking
- A focus on wellbeing with a dedicated wellbeing committee to liaise with SLT
Further details about the role
Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys are looking to appoint an exceptional teacher of Art and Design with a dynamic and inspirational approach to teaching, an individual that will become an integral part of the department, who will support the department in achieving its ambitious targets and goals. We would like a teacher who believes in collaboration both for students and when working with colleagues.The ideal candidate will be expected to contribute to extra-curricular activities within the department as well as the pastoral life of the school as a form tutor.
We are looking for a teacher who is passionate and committed to Graphic Communications, art and design, to join our outstanding Team. You must be a reflective practitioner and be committed to strong personal growth and continuing professional development. This position would suit an early careers teacher or a more experienced teacher looking to broaden their experience at an inner-city school. Art and Design is a core subject at key stage 3 and is a popular choice at key stage 4, with Graphic Communication being a very popular subject at both Key stage 4 & 5.
The department:
We currently offer the following EDUQAS accredited courses:
- GCSE Art and design
- GCSE Graphic communications
- GCSE Photography
- A’ level Fine art
- A’ Level Photography
Commitment to safeguarding
All offer of employment is subject upon the Academy Trust receiving an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate (DBS), which the Academy considers to be satisfactory. Successful applicants, you will be required to complete a DBS Application Form. Any information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the Code of Practice published by the Disclosure and Barring Service. The post you are applying for is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and it is therefore an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
About Woolwich Polytechnic School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1546 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Woolwich Polytechnic School website
- Email address
- acherry@polymat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02083107000
PolyMAT is a small and ambitious MAT with a unique family feel. Our vision is ‘Success for Everyone’ and the successful candidate will help deliver this for our schools. We currently have three schools in our Trust: Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys, a long-successful boys’ school, Woolwich Polytechnic School for Girls that opened in 2019, and Bannockburn Primary School, a large successful primary that joined the Trust on 1st November 2023. We also have our flourishing Sixth Form provision which is co-educational. Our Trust and our schools pride themselves on a culture of high standards delivered through our Values of Care and Unity. We provide a rewarding environment where students and staff feel valued and supported and everyone feels part of the larger family as our schools and departments work very closely together.
Arranging a visit to Woolwich Polytechnic School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email acherry@polymat.co.uk.
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