Teacher of English
Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EWThis job expired on 15 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January or Easter 2025
Closing date
15 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
1 October 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- TLT MPS/UPS SCALE
What skills and experience we're looking for
We require a Teacher of English for January or Easter 2025. The successful candidate will be an outstanding classroom practitioner, keen to develop leadership skills in the English Faculty at Lord Grey and will have excellent subject knowledge.
The successful candidate:
- will have a strong commitment to teaching and learning in English
- will be an effective classroom practitioner committed to raising standards for all students
- will be able to teach English at Key Stages 3 and 4 and, if appropriate, in the Sixth Form
- will be fully committed to enabling all students to achieve well and make good progress
- the drive and determination to motivate colleagues and students
- a creative and energetic approach to teaching and management
- good organisational skills
- the vision to develop the courses currently offered
- open to change, new ideas and innovation.
The right candidate will be totally aligned to our values of encouraging all students to be ambitious, determined, independent, respectful and successful and completely committed to promoting our mantra of Lord Grey Can!
What the school offers its staff
Why choose Lord Grey Academy?
Culture of high expectations and a strong belief that all can achieve
Very clear routines for learning so that teachers can teach and students can learn
Culture of support and feedback for staff
Highly visible student-centred Leadership Team
Positive, supportive and friendly colleagues
Weekly CPD and regular opportunities to benefit from working with other schools in the Trust.
Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT. Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St- Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can!
Tove Learning Trust
The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust.
Further details about the role
A lesson observation and a formal interview will form the selection criteria. A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website: http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/
Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link. Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet. Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?
Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Tuesday 15th October 2024. Interviews to be held on Wednesday 23rd October 2024.
Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
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About Lord Grey Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lord Grey Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@lordgrey.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01908 626110
Lord Grey Academy is an exciting and vibrant learning community where students enjoy great success in and outside of the classroom. Our Academy motto: Lord Grey Can is important to us as we prepare our students for successful adult lives in an increasingly competitive world.
Lord Grey Academy is popular and is the first choice school locally. We have a strong focus on academic achievement throughout the school and develop our young people to be independent and resilient learners. We are immensely proud of our inclusive ethos and of the positive relationships that we build with parents and the local community. We believe that all students can achieve.
Arranging a visit to Lord Grey Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@lordgrey.org.uk.
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