Teacher of Design and Technology
Thornden School, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO53 2DW6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full Time 32.44 hours a week, Monday to Friday (part-time may be considered for the right candidate)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR / UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the role:
- Deliver high-quality Design and Technology lessons to Key Stage 3 and 4 students
- Support the department in raising and maintaining high standards of student attainment and achievement
- Promote active learning, monitor progress, and be accountable for student progress in Design and Technology
- Contribute to a safe, inclusive, and engaging learning environment, aligned with safeguarding practices
- Collaborate with colleagues on curriculum development and participate in departmental activities, including trips and open days.
We are seeking an individual who has:
- A degree in a relevant subject and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Proven experience teaching or training in a comprehensive school setting, covering Key Stages 3 and 4
- Competence in teaching at least one of the following to GCSE level: Graphics/Paper and Boards, Engineering, or Timbers
- A strong understanding of safeguarding practices, classroom management skills, and the ability to foster a safe learning environment
- Emotional resilience, professionalism, and a collaborative mindset, with excellent communication skills.
What the school offers its staff
- A positive working environment focused on staff wellbeing, student welfare, progress, and high standards of achievement and behaviour.
- Excellent professional development opportunities
- Eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and other benefits.
Flexible working opportunities
- PPA time
- Part-time considered
Commitment to safeguarding
The HISP Multi Academy Trust 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. We are also committed to providing equality of opportunity at all stages of the recruitment and selection process and ensuring that candidates are treated fairly and lawfully throughout the process.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@thornden.hants.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Thornden School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1456 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Thornden School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@thornden.hants.sch.uk
Thornden School is part of the HISP Multi Academy Trust, which was formed in January 2020. As a MAT, we aim to ensure that our schools have strong and talented leadership and staff, who in turn will ensure that the young people who are in each of the MAT schools have access to excellent education, support and wider opportunities.
Thornden is an oversubscribed, outstanding school serving Chandler’s Ford and the surrounding area with just over 1470 students on roll. We have an ambitious ethos based on high expectations for all. Our students are proud of their academic and wider achievements, having a belief in their own success and ability to succeed which continues beyond our school with a high percentage of Thornden students excelling at local colleges and then at further and higher education.
In the results for 2019, 90% of our students achieved 5 or more 9-4 grades including English and Maths and 54% achieved the English Baccalaureate. Our value added performance was 0.65 in 2019 which puts the school at the top of the league tables for Hampshire. We had anticipated even better performance and outcomes for 2020.
Thornden is a busy and dynamic school with a strong focus on developing the whole child. We have a vibrant performing arts department that encourages students to embrace a rich cultural education beyond the more traditional subjects. Alongside our formal curriculum provision, we offer a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities including sporting clubs and teams, author visits, Duke of Edinburgh Award and trips within the UK and abroad. We firmly believe that by engaging students and encouraging enjoyment we inspire them to learn and achieve therefore helping them to develop into fully contributing and happy members of our community. Thornden also leads a large successful Teaching School alliance with an outstanding School Centred Initial Teacher Training programme and we are a Research School.
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