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Expected start date
1 September 2021
Application deadline
21 May 2021 at 9:00am
Date listed
23 April 2021
Job details
- Job role
- Teacher, Suitable for NQTs
- Subject
- English
- Working pattern
- Full-time only
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Salary
- MPS/UPS/NQT
Job summary
Teacher of English
MPS/UPS (NQTs welcome to apply)
Required for September
Flexible working hours considered
Waingels is a very successful 11 to 18 Comprehensive school serving its local community. Our successes and achievements can be attributed to our commitment to establish and grow a Better Never Stops culture, providing a safe, inclusive and rich learning environment where students feel safe and valued, founded on respectful relationships for all. Our ethos and culture are values based. We set high standards and expect all our students and staff to be respectful, kind, resilient and proud of our school, our achievements and our community.
Our values underpin our “Waingels Ready” expectations that we have for everyone within the Waingels community. These expectations form the basis of everything we do, and everything we believe in as a school and as a community.
We are very pleased with our recent Ofsted feedback (February 2018) and how it has endorsed the achievements, improvements and direction that we are travelling in. Ofsted noted that:
- Waingels “continues to be a good school…where standards are rising rapidly”
- Staff feel that they are “valued as their opinions are considered when reshaping practices” and that “people have the courage to try new things and we share success”
- “Pupils behave well in lessons and have a good attitude towards learning”
- “As a result of improvements that leaders have implemented, standards are rising rapidly”
We are also very proud of the achievements of our students. Under the new measures our students at Key Stage 4 made very good progress. We are delighted that the vast majority of our students stay on to our Sixth Form and that 97% of our leavers gain a place at University or choose to enter apprenticeships and employment.
Our students follow an academic core curriculum throughout Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. This includes the study of History, Geography and a Language as well as English, Maths and Science. But our students also have the opportunity to do a range of practical and vocational subjects including a wide range of creative and performing arts, physical education and other humanities like Business studies, Psychology and Economics.
In English we regularly review our curriculum to ensure that our students experience and enjoy a diverse range of literature that allows them to explore different cultures. Whilst preparing our students with the necessary skills to undertake their examinations, our focus is to instill a love of literature within our pupils. We offer both English Language and English Literature at A Level.
The department is well resourced, with interactive Smart Boards in every class room, a dedicated office for the staff and a brand new reading room based within the department as well as the main school library.
We feel it is important that students have the opportunity to see the texts they study in action and therefore arrange a number of extracurricular activities throughout the year including theatre trips to London including Romeo and Juliet, Jekyll and Hyde, Matilda and War Horse.
Outside the formal curriculum we offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities and clubs. Our students travel the world – recent trips have been to China, Poland, Berlin, Skiing in Utah, and Barcelona, along with many opportunities to attend fieldwork, theatres and museums more locally. Our students are also very active in the community working alongside local and overseas charities to raise money for good causes.
If you feel your values and ethos align with ours, this is an exciting opportunity for you! We are looking for someone with energy and vision that is ambitious for themselves and the young people of the school. You will have a growth mindset and believe in offering dynamic English learning across Key Stages.
Applying for the job
look on the school website
https://www.waingels.wokingham.sch.uk/286/staff-vacancies
School overview
- School type
- Academy
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1291 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Waingels website (opens in a new window)
- Contact email
- tagktg@waingels.wokingham.sch.uk
- Contact phone number
- 01189690336
About Waingels
Waingels is a very successful 11 to 18 Comprehensive school serving its local community. Our successes and achievements can be attributed our commitment establish grow Better Never Stops culture, providing safe, inclusive rich learning environment where students feel safe valued, founded on respectful relationships for all. ethos culture are values based. We set high standards expect all staff respectful, kind, resilient proud of school,
Arranging a visit to Waingels
Please contact Karen Tagg on 01189690336 if you would like to speak to someone about the role or visit the school
School location
Waingels Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG5 4RFSimilar jobs
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