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  • Job start date

    1 September 2020

  • Closing date

    9 March 2020 at 1pm

  • Date listed

    16 February 2020

Job details

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Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,373 to £40,490

Additional allowances

- A supporting, friendly and caring work environment
- A highly professional, talented, innovative and happy teaching and support team who are committed to progression and change in order to further the development of the school
- A supportive Trust who are keen to develop individuals at every stage of their career.
- Access to some of the best educational leaders in the South West
- A trust who is committed to supporting the health and well-being of staff. Part of this commitment is that every permanent member of staff is automatically entitled to Benenden Healthcare
- Opportunities to contribute to our wide-ranging and popular extra-curricular and inter-House programmes of activities

Teacher of English job summary

Required for September 2020

We are looking to appoint a high quality, enthusiastic English Teacher to join our large, successful English department. If you have the desire to make a real difference to the lives of young children and want to join a team of highly dedicated staff, then we would love to hear from you.

Holyrood is a large 11-18 Academy with 1280 students, including a Sixth form of 200 students based in the market town of Chard in South Somerset. On the 1st September we were pleased to join the high performing Uffculme Academy Trust.

We currently have a 3 year Key Stage 4, beginning in Year 9, where we follow the Eduqas Literature syllabus. Core texts include, An Inspector Calls, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol and Jekyll and Hyde. Many students sit the Literature exam in Year 10 and focus their studies in Year 11 on English Language, where we currently follow the AQA syllabus. At Key Stage 3, we have a robust curriculum that is designed to reinforce the skills at GCSE and transition students to the rigour of the new curriculum. Students have knowledge organisers on which they self-quiz, vocabulary work to enrich their tier 2 expressive language and study topics such as Victorian childhood, a range of Shakespeare texts, descriptive and narrative writing, transactional writing, dystopian fiction and poetry. At Year 7 we use Accelerated Reader to drive comprehension and reading skills and subscribe to the Book Buzz initiative in Year 8. At Key Stage 5 we offer English Literature (OCR) and English Language and Literature (AQA). The Literature syllabus focuses on the Gothic genre, Edward II, Twelfth Night and the poetry of Christina Rossetti. For English Language and Literature, popular texts are Othello, the poetry of Browning, The Great Gatsby and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Commitment to safeguarding

Holyrood Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding is our most important responsibility as a school. Happy and healthy students who are free from harm, are more likely to be successful throughout their education and thrive on their journey towards adulthood.

As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.

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About Holyrood Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
1319 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Holyrood Academy is an 11-18 Academy in Somerset with approximately 1350 students on roll – including around 160 in the sixth form. It is situated in the centre of the market town of Chard, and it is the only secondary school in the town. We are therefore fully comprehensive and committed to providing an excellent education in the service of our whole community.

Holyrood was last inspected in February 2023 when it achieved a 'Good' rating in all areas of inspection.

Holyrood Academy is part of Blackdown Education Partnership thereby creating opportunities to work as part of a team of highly effective school leaders. It allows each school in the MAT to share good practice and provides exceptional opportunities to learn from each other. All our senior leaders are system leaders and regularly contribute to the leadership programmes of Teaching Schools across the region.

The leadership team at Holyrood Academy consists of a mix of newly appointed and highly experienced senior leaders. All are driven to deliver exceptional experiences and educational outcomes for young people and have firmly bought into the BEP principles of excellence.

Holyrood benefits from a large and beautifully situated site within easy commuting distance of towns such as Taunton and Yeovil as well as the cities of Exeter and Bristol. Chard is on the edge of the Blackdown Hills and close to the Devon and Dorset coastlines.

The Academy occupies a split site; however, both sites are located on the same campus. We are therefore lucky enough to have a great deal of open space and our staff and students enjoy excellent facilities.

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