Teacher of English
The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9PGThis job expired on 9 November 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
4 January 2022
Closing date
9 November 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 October 2021
Job details
Job role
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- View all Englishjobs
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,714-£41,603
Teacher of English job summary
Are you a talented and energetic teacher of English? If so, Skinners’ School is a friendly and high achieving boys’ grammar school. This post is open to full and part-time applicants.
The successful candidate will:
· have a love of English and high quality subject knowledge
· be able to inspire and enthuse pupils
· foster high quality teaching and learning
· have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Skinners’ pupils are highly motivated and intelligent. Results are impressive at both GCSE and A Level. More details of the School are available on our website:
www.skinners-school.co.uk.
Please also visit the school website (under ‘Vacancies’) for details of the post, including application information
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.
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About The Skinners' School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1118 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Skinners' School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- wendy.dray@skinners-school.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01892578103
Skinners’ School was founded in 1887 and is a thriving boys’ grammar school. There are currently 1119 pupils, 325 of whom are in the Sixth Form. A friendly and hard-working community, the school is amongst the highest achieving in the country, both academically and in terms of extra-curricular provision. Pastoral care is also a real strength.
The English department currently comprises seven specialist teachers who are passionate about their subject. Pupils are taught within forms at KS3 and then divided into smaller mixed ability sets from Year 10. The department follows the Edexcel specification at GCSE, achieving between 65% and 75% of grades between 9-7 in English Literature and English Language.
About one third of the Sixth Form studies OCR English Literature at A level, again with impressive results: an average of 90% A*-B over the last three years. A healthy number of students go on to study English at university each year, including Oxford and Cambridge.
All teaching takes place in a brand new English department on the middle floor of the Mitchell Building, just below the school’s state of the art Library. Each classroom is equipped with visualisers and projectors; the department has its own office and an extensive storeroom. There are suites of computers that can be booked by any department for use in lesson time.
The department runs or supports a number of extra-curricular activities from Debating, Mock Trial and Model UN to the National Theatre’s New Views playwriting scheme, English Societies and the Sixth Form Theatre Club.
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