Teacher of English - Maternity Cover Post - 1 Year Temporary Contract

Anthony Gell School, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 4DX

6 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  16 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Drama, English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS

Teacher of English - Maternity Cover Post - 1 Year Temporary Contract job summary

We are a successful team of experienced English specialists who are creative, collaborative, forward thinking and supportive of each other. We share resources and teach very similar curriculum units to better ensure entitlement for students, continuity and progression. Consequently, a new member of the team would be well supported and encouraged to contribute new ideas.

As a guiding principle, we all teach in every Key Stage. We have a commitment to teaching 'mixed ability' groups in Year 7 and 8 but we have a broad setting system in Year 9 and Key Stage 4. We have very good relationships with students, parents and governors.

We aim to develop expertise in speaking and listening, reading and writing. We give the opportunity to generate and analyse a variety of texts in a variety of media and explore the issues, ideas and values expressed in such texts, both literary and non-literary. We believe that our teaching is not only a preparation for examinations and qualifications - but also a preparation for life.

We have a common curriculum at Key Stage 3, which meets National Curriculum Framework objectives. We have devised our own course structure - a series of curriculum grids for Years 7, 8 and 9. They contain core units of work that are covered in any order apart from the introductory topic at the start of Year 7. These units are based on texts, themes or styles and they create the opportunity for English specialists to pursue their own enthusiasms. Each unit has a ‘controlled’ assessment piece for reading and writing so the students can demonstrate their independent achievements and we can monitor their progress.

At GCSE, all students study language and literature and sit both exams. Currently, we follow the AQA syllabus. A small number of students do AQA Entry Level English. The department also teaches Media Studies GCSE which has become a popular option subject at Anthony Gell following the WJEC syllabus – there is an opportunity to teach in this area if the successful candidate is interested.

English Literature and Media Studies also form part of the school’s post-16 curriculum. We teach AQA A level specifications for both English Literature (Specification B) and Media Studies. All teachers of English contribute to and benefit from Sixth Form teaching. The Communicate Faculty, includes, as well as English, Media, Drama, French, Spanish and German for which there are seven full-time and three part-time teachers. In addition to the Director of Teaching and Learning there are two Assistant Directors of Teaching and Learning each with a management responsibility within the faculty.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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About Anthony Gell School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 824 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Anthony Gell School website
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