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Teacher of Food Technology
Wollaston School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN29 7PHThis job expired on 18 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
18 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 March 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Food technology
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Wollaston School are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic full time Food teacher, with the ability to teach throughout the school from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 5. ECT’s applications are welcomed as we offer a fully supported induction programme with tailored CPD including regular subject specific mentoring.
The successful candidate will be an innovative, reflective practitioner who can demonstrate the willingness to adapt and learn. We are looking for an individual with high expectations and standards who can offer excellent behavioural
management skills. An additional strength would be an approach to offering a creative, engaging approach to the delivery of the curriculum and planning both within the classroom and also in the wider outdoor learning environment .
What the school offers its staff
They will be joining a highly successful team of food specialist teachers who are forward thinking and have proven excellent exam success year on year.
Food is taught alongside Product Design throughout KS3 and operates on a carousel system students have a 1 hour 40 minute lesson each week. Food is offered at Key Stage 4 and is an extremely popular subject with approximately 160 students studying the subject in Year 10 and 11. Food is also offered at KS5 with students who then continue their food studies ,either in the food industry or continue to study at higher education.
Wollaston School is a fantastic place to work and study.
Informal visits are welcomed if you would like to see us in action and to learn more about us prior to your application
We offer a comprehensive employee benefit package
Including:
- Teacher Pension Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- An open & welcoming site
- Free Onsite Parking
- New Spin Studio
- School Counsellor
- Regular Team Building Events
Further information about the job
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.
About Wollaston School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1431 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wollaston School website
- Email address
- recruitment@wollaston-school.net
- Phone number
- 01933663501
Wollaston School is a large, rural community school located in a village setting about 15 minutes drive from Northampton. The student intake draws on nearby villages and the towns of Earls Barton, Wellingborough, and Irchester. We have over 1400 students on roll with approximately 240 students in the Sixth Form. The school is over-subscribed. Wollaston School was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2023.
We are a school that takes great pride in our central purpose - to prepare every student for success. Success in academic qualifications, success in a wide range of extra-curricular and leadership activities and success in every individual’s personal and social development. We work towards this mission through a focus on exceptional levels of pastoral support and an academic and enrichment programme designed to ensure that every individual reaches their true potential.
At Wollaston, we believe in aiming high. We target excellence with the utmost commitment, but we also remember that a truly inspiring education is one that is filled with joy, laughter and happiness. We are also a school that is led by our values. We value honesty, kindness and tolerance. We embrace individuality as well as collective responsibility, we celebrate diversity, promote equality of opportunity, and we are a community which supports every individual to achieve all that they are capable of.
For most students, Wollaston School provides an education which lasts for seven years, from age 11 to age 18. Our ambition is to ensure that at the end of that journey, every student is ready to take their place in society as positive, purposeful, ethical and well qualified individuals.
Life at Wollaston School is characterised by an ethos of warmth, respect and ambition. We value effective working relationships with parents and we believe in delivering a high quality professional service in every aspect of our work. We offer a broad and exciting curriculum, expert teaching and high standards of academic achievement. We promote impeccable standards of behaviour and we expect the very best of every individual who walks through our doors. We are a team of staff and students who are committed to ensuring that our school is a truly exceptional place of learning.
Arranging a visit to Wollaston School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@wollaston-school.net.
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