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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    11 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    2 May 2025

Job details

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

English

Working pattern

Part time: 0.2FTE

Contract type

Fixed term - maternity cover - Maternity or parental leave cover

Pay scale

TPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We currently have a Teacher of English maternity cover position available.

St Peter’s is an oversubscribed school, known as a high performing school and nationally recognised for our approaches to character education. Our most recent Ofsted inspection (‘Good’ November 2019 and SIAMS inspection (‘Excellent’ May 2019) indicate the significant progress we have made in developing well rounded students who ‘live life to the full’. As a Beacon School, Relational and Restorative Approaches are key to how we educate students for a wise, courageous and compassionate community.

We are seeking to appoint a fixed term (maternity cover) Teacher of English to work alongside the Lead Practitioner: English, Subject Learning Leader: English and English Team with a relentless focus in providing the very best outcomes and experiences for students in their care.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative English Teacher to join the English Department at St Peter's for a 0.2FTE Maternity Cover post. This is an exciting opportunity to teach both English Language and English Literature across KS3 and KS4.

We are a committed, dynamic and interesting team, who are exploring new approaches and share ideas and resources readily to support one another. If you are committed to ensuring all students make progress in English, work well within a team and are passionate about teaching engaging lessons, then we would love to hear from you.

Our students make working here a real pleasure, and as such we have high expectation for both our students and ourselves.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

  • a welcoming and friendly team of excellent staff
  • a supportive working environment
  • students with a drive to succeed

A willingness and ability to offer time and energy to our wellbeing programme &/or extra-curricular provision (which we believe adds significant value to our character based approaches to education, including our Duke of Edinburgh and Ten Tors), will be taken into consideration for applications.

Commitment to safeguarding

As a Church of England Aided School, in cases of equal merit preference will be given to candidates who are in sympathy with the foundation. The school is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of its students. This role is subject to enhanced DBS clearance.

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About St Peter's Church of England Aided School

School type
Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1308 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Email address
vacancies@spexe.org
Phone number
01392 204764

St Peter’s is an oversubscribed school, known as a high performing school and nationally recognised for our approaches to character education. Our most recent Ofsted inspection (‘Good’ November 2019 and SIAMS inspection (‘Excellent’ May 2019) indicate the significant progress we have made in developing well rounded students who ‘live life to the full’. As a Beacon School, Relational and Restorative Approaches are key to how we educate for a wise, courageous and compassionate community.

Arranging a visit to St Peter's Church of England Aided School

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