Teacher of English
The King's (The Cathedral) School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 2UE10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
9 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 April 2025
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, part time: Full and part-time hours available.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS and UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
The newly appointed candidate will be working in a committed, successful and experienced team which regularly achieves strong academic success. In 2025 our progress measure for English was +0.56 and this level of achievement has been consistent over a number of years. Recently we have invested heavily in our IT facilities with all teachers benefitting from a modern SMART board and a personal laptop.
The English team are passionate practitioners and enhance the curriculum through a number of extra-curricular activities including theatre visits and through welcoming guest authors and speakers onto site. There is a thriving King's Poetry Society, and we are proud that, in the last few years, we have created the post ofSchool Poet Laureate, typically a member of the 6th form who performs their own poetry at School events, as well as encouraging younger students to enjoy reading and writing poetry. Reading is a particular focus: we use the Accelerated Reader programme to gauge and track students' reading ability at Key Stage 3, and there are regular reading initiatives such as competitions and Shadowing programmes.
This post would suit an application from an early career teacher who would benefit enormously from strong mentoring, or alternatively from an experienced teacher who is looking to develop their skills in a new setting. The successful candidate will need to be able to teach across all age ranges and abilities. The ability to teach another subject would be desirable but not essential.
What the school offers its staff
Thank you for your interest in joining The King’s (The Cathedral) School at this exciting time. We are currently looking to appoint a Teacher of English who is able to teach across the age and ability range.
The King’s (The Cathedral) School enjoys a very strong reputation both within the city and the local region. As one of a small number of state schools with close links to their local Cathedral, our distinct Christian culture lies at the heart of the school. We are a single academy Trust, located close to the city centre of Peterborough, educating students from the age of seven to eighteen.
We are rightly proud of our student’s academic achievements (progress is typically in the top 5% nationally for GCSE) but the educational philosophy at the school is far broader with students encouraged to take part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities including Music, Sport and Drama.
We are looking to appoint a well-qualified and passionate teacher to our excellent English team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high achieving school, with mature and well-behaved students and where English is highly valued as a core subject. The appointed applicant will be part of a department that teaches all our students through to GCSE and retains strong numbers through to A-Level.
For more information about the breadth of our offering and the school culture, we encourage you to read our Executive Self Evaluation Summary on our website.
Commitment to safeguarding
The King’s (The Cathedral) School fully recognises the responsibility it has under section 175 of the Education
Act 2002 (as amended), the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (as amended) and Education
and Training (Welfare of Children) Act, 2021 to have arrangements in place to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to baker.jm@kings.peterborough.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The King's (The Cathedral) School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 7 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1251 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The King's (The Cathedral) School website
- Email address
- baker.jm@kings.peterborough.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01733 751541
We are proud of our long-standing history and tradition going back to 1541 and embrace everything the modern world has to offer, as we look towards the future. We value, and strive to encourage, individual academic success, alongside musical, cultural and sporting achievements, within the Christian family ethos, which is central to everything we do. Our aim is to be “A Family Achieving Excellence”.
Arranging a visit to The King's (The Cathedral) School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email baker.jm@kings.peterborough.sch.uk.
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