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Teacher of English / Curriculum Leader for Year 7 English - HLNA
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJ15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
30 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Full Time / Part Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR + TLR3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and highly effective individuals. The successful candidate will take lead responsibility for providing leadership to secure high-quality teaching and subject knowledge of English.
The Year 7 curriculum leader will take lead responsibility for providing leadership to secure:
- High-quality teaching and subject knowledge of English
- A coherently planned and sequenced knowledge curriculum in English, adapting the HLS model where appropriate
- Improved standards of learning and achievement for all pupils
- Consistent use of assessment
- Effective use of resources
General Duties and Responsibilities
- Pupils will be taught for 7 hours of English per fortnight in Years 7 and 8. Pupils will initially be grouped according to ability.
- Pupils will be taught an ambitious, carefully planned and sequenced English knowledge curriculum. Initially this will be the curriculum model of our outstanding sister school, Higham Lane. The use of knowledge booklets, regular quizzing and use of knowledge organisers will be a key feature of this.
- There will be a strong commitment to reading and literacy throughout the school that English teachers will be an integral part of. It is our ambition that every child's reading age will match their chronological age. To help achieve this, pupils will read in morning form time with their tutors, take part in our Accelerated Reading scheme and there will be a range of reading interventions for our less-able readers. As a form tutor you will also support the school's ambition of ensuring that pupils' numeracy skills are excellent and will deliver a weekly form time activity with your form group, such as Numeracy Ninjas.
- There is a suite of English classrooms with ICT facilities available, including the use of a Visualiser in each classroom.
- The spacious library is situated within the heart of the school and will be fully stocked with a range of texts suitable for every child.
- Super-curricular activities are an important part of our curriculum offer of entitlement to ensure that our pupils experience the best of what has been thought and said in each subject. Every department will offer a weekly activity linked to their subject that provides pupils with the opportunity to develop their cultural capital and passion for a range of subjects and interests. In your application, please include details of what you can offer your growing department/school. As part of the North Guarantee for pupils, we will also offer a number of trips and visits over the five years that subject teachers and leaders will lead on.
- You will be provided with a laptop to help support your teaching and learning.
What the school offers its staff
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.
Employee Support Schemes:
- Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- A Gym Membership Scheme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.
- A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more.
Further details about the role
Please be aware that this role is at Central England Academy Trust's brand-new secondary school, Higham Lane North Academy, opening in September 2025.
Higham Lane North Academy is set to open with up to five forms of entry (150 places) in Year 7. This state-of-the-art school and community resource is at the new, Milby Meadows neighbourhood on Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton Warwickshire, CV11 6YN. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 920-pupil school. The school will include a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) with up to 20 places available by 2030.
How to Apply
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.
If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123.The closing date for applications is midday, Thursday 30th January 2025.
Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:
- why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position;
- your specific ideas about what you can do as a Teacher of English both within the classroom and beyond to ensure pupils at Higham Lane North Academy are safe, happy and make excellent progress.
- Your specific ideas about what you can do as a Curriculum Leader of Year 7 English to ensure that pupils make sustained and rapid progress in the subject.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the School's vetting procedure. Higham Lane School is also strongly committed to protecting personal data. Our Privacy Notice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the School website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@hlna.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Higham Lane School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1425 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Higham Lane School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@hlna.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476388123
Part of the Central England Academy Trust, Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a large, 11-18 comprehensive academy, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the CEAT trust and schools within our small trust work closely together bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We offer an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum where we value equally achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural, sporting and intellectual. All students achieve well at Higham Lane School, and in 2023 our Progress 8 figure was 0.56 which is testament to how well students, teachers and parents/carers work together effectively. We are committed to ensuring that an ambitious curriculum, combined with evidence-informed teaching and learning, and excellent behaviour from students make Higham Lane School a thriving environment for all that work and study here. Our Progress 8 figure for 2023 puts us in the top 6% of state-funded mainstream schools for progress, which we are delighted with, and we are committed to building upon this fantastic achievement for our students.
We were extremely pleased to have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in May 2019, one of only a small number of schools in England to have achieved the highest rating that year. We are also delighted that we continue to achieve impressive A level results in our high-performing Sixth Form with an average grade of B- placing the school within the top 4 mainstream Sixth Form schools in Warwickshire and the highest-performing in North Warwickshire, which again shows how students, staff and parents/carers work together effectively. In July 2021, we were granted World Class Schools status, one of a very small number of schools to achieve this.
We are also very excited to be opening a new free school, Higham Lane North Academy, in September 2025. Just a mile away from Higham Lane School, there will be exciting opportunities for the two secondary schools, as part of the wider trust, to work together with many mutual benefits for both students and staff.
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to ‘Work Hard, Be Kind and Take Responsibility within the overall aim to “Be the best you can be!”
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