Teacher of French and Spanish (Maternity Cover)
Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AEThis job expired on 4 November 2024
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
4 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
12 September 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- French, Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 Year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
MFL at QMHS
French and Spanish teaching and teachers are an integral part of our Modern Foreign Languages teams, which consist of seven expert language teachers, offering French, German, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish to our students. It is a thriving and successful department, and a very rewarding team to work within.
Our Ofsted inspection in October 2021 judged the quality of education to be outstanding, recognising particularly the high quality of the curriculum, teaching and learning in languages. We are looking for a colleague who loves what they do and will enthuse and inspire our learners. Our students are exceptional in attitude and academic ability, they enjoy high challenge learning and respond with engagement and positivity.
The MFL team aims to enable all students to become proficient linguists and independent learners who strive to make progress and realise their potential. Through the learning of languages, we encourage students to become confident individuals and tolerant citizens. The MFL team is a hard-working, friendly and enthusiastic one with very high standards. We strongly encourage mutual support and the sharing of skills, ideas and experience and we regularly meet to review, share and plan good practice. Colleagues also value the frequent informal discussions that take place about lesson ideas and activities.
We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified and talented teacher to teach within our superb Modern Foreign Languages Department. The ability to teach Spanish and French to A Level is desirable. Experience in a grammar school setting is neither required not expected. We welcome applications from successful, inspirational teachers. The successful applicant will become part of a collaborative and supportive staff body, who share a vision to realise and achieve ambitious outcomes for every individual in our school.
If you are, like us passionate about having a positive impact on young people’s lives, and excited by this opportunity to teach exceptional young people, we warmly welcome your application.
Closing date: 9:00am, Monday 04th November 2024
Interviews: w/c 4th or 11th November 2024
What the school offers its staff
Queen Mary’s High School is an 11 to 18 selective girls’ grammar school with approximately 940 students. There are a small number of male students in the sixth form.
Since the school’s successful bid for funding from the Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF), it has been able to increase its PAN and to engage in outreach to the local community with the aim of increasing the number of local disadvantaged children being admitted to the school. This, together with the inclusion of a lower qualifying score for disadvantaged local children, has resulted in the average percentage of disadvantaged students admitted to the school in Years 7-9 being 29% with the aim of this rising to over 30% for the whole school over time.
Located in the heart of Walsall, Queen Mary’s High School has been educating young women since it was founded in 1893. We are a busy, friendly and energetic school with a distinctive family-oriented ethos, a positive culture and an ambition for success. We draw our students from a wide area including Walsall, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Staffordshire.
The Mercian Trustis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks include an enhanced disclosure and barring service check as a requirement of this post. Our Safeguarding Policy is available on our website, and we encourage applicants to review it before applying.
This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly CRB) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from the school or by visiting www.crb.gov.uk.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.
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About Queen Mary's High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 937 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Queen Mary's High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- bonnie.burns@merciantrust.org.uk
Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.
Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.
We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.
Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.
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