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Teacher of English

Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8RB

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• Job start date

  4 January 2022

• Closing date

  13 December 2021 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 December 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - Maternity cover
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main scale 1-6 or UPS 1-3

Teacher of English job summary

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Teacher of English to join Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School from 4 January 2022. This contract is a fixed-term full time maternity cover. Candidates need to have the ability to deliver effective teaching and learning at Key Stage 3.

Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School is a very successful comprehensive school with excellent results at GCSE and at A level. The school is within easy commuting distance of Bristol and Gloucester.

Further information about the school is available on our web site. Please complete an application form and send with a letter of application to dpavey@klbschool.org.uk. Further details are available from the school or download from the Job Vacancies link on the school’s website. The closing date for applications is Monday 13 December.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to satisfactory full enhanced DBS and barred list, prohibition order, identity and qualifications checks.

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About Katharine Lady Berkeley's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1528 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Katharine Lady Berkeley's School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: dpavey@klbschool.org.uk
• Phone number: 01453842227
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/katharine-lady-berkeley-s-school-wotton-under-edge (opens in new tab)

The School was founded by Katharine, wife of Thomas, Lord Berkeley in 1384 on October 20th. The Foundation Deed reads:-

"We the said Kitherina (Katharine), attentively considering that the purposes of man desiring to be informed in grammar which is the foundation of all liberal arts, is daily defeated and frustrated by poverty and want of means; therefore for the maintenance and exaltation of Holy Mother Church, and the increase of divine worship, and other liberal arts and sciences, out of the goods bestowed on us by God have procured the said Walter and Williams to acquire certain lands and tenements in fee, that they may build (re-build?) a school-house in Wotton for the habitation and likewise dispose of them for the maintenance of a master and 2 poor scholars of the art of grammar; which master and his successors shall govern and inform all scholars coming to the same house or school coming for instruction in this art without taking anything for his trouble from them or any of them."

The Deed was sealed with Katharine's personal seal which showed St John holding a lamb and has the Latin inscription "Sigilla domus scolari de Woton sub ege". (The seal of the School House of Wotton-under-Edge). This seal is stamped on our prizes and also in special badges which are worn by some members of the school. The crest on the blazers is the Berkeley coat-of-arms.

The old school buildings in School Lane, Wotton-under-Edge, were erected in 1726 to which there were various additions later. Shortly after the school had become co-educational, Church Mill was bought in 1908. After the World War of 1939 -1945, Carlton House was rented from the Post Office.

In 1961, the erection of a new building for 350 students in the Kingswood Road, was started, and in January 1963 the school vacated the premises in Wotton and moved into the new buildings.

The erection of the first phase of extensions to the Kingswood Road buildings began in March 1972, and were completed for the start of the Autumn Term 1973, when Katharine Lady Berkeley's re-opened as a comprehensive school for 830 students following the closure of Wotton Secondary School at the end of August 1973.

In July 1974, the second phase of extensions to the building were started and were completed by September 1975.

Since that time, there has been a range of new buildings and extensions in order to accommodate the increasing number of students which is now over 1,450 – very different from the school roll 630 years ago.

Since becoming a comprehensive school in 1973 there have been many curricular developments including becoming a specialist school for languages in 1996. Even though the additional funding provided for specialist schools has been withdrawn since 2010, we still have a rich languages provision which provides outstanding opportunities for our students to gain skills in foreign languages, to take part in visits overseas and to gain an appreciation of the cultures of other countries.

In 2011, the school converted to become an Academy. This means that the school continues to be state funded but it is independent from the local authority - the school is effectively a state funded independent school. This provides certain freedoms including, most importantly, the opportunity to purchase services which best match the needs of our particular students.

Almost all secondary schools in Gloucestershire have converted to Academy status but the relationship with the Local Authority and the sense of community and partnership between the schools, whether Academy or not, continues to be strong.

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