Teacher of Geography - 1 year fixed term contract

The Compton School, London, N12 0QG

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  2 June 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  21 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Geography
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPR-UPR

Teacher of Geography - 1 year fixed term contract job summary

Do you want to work in an outstanding school and Geography department?

If so, we are looking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic teacher to join our exceptional Geography department. This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your teaching skills and work within an inspirational team. There are also a wide range of exciting enrichment opportunities on offer.

You will be joining a highly successful department; last academic year, the Progress 8 score was +0.7, with nearly a quarter of students achieving grades 7-9. The department offers A Level Geography in the Sixth Form, which has a large and high achieving cohort. We strongly believe in mixed ability teaching where challenge, high expectations and inclusion are at the heart of our departmental approach.

Why work at The Compton School?

• You will be joining a highly successful school with a national profile of excellence in teaching and learning, classroom behaviour, teacher training and student outcomes
  
• The Geography department at The Compton School is staffed with subject specialists, who use a collaboratively planned curriculum to deliver lessons of outstanding quality to our students everyday
  
• We will provide you with exceptional training through our induction programme; in particular, the support for our ECTs is outstanding
  
• We offer fully funded teaching CPD opportunities, such as the Outstanding Teacher Programme and all the National Professional Qualifications on site
  

Who are we?

We are a massively oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had five outstanding OFSTED inspections in succession, most recently in March 2025. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely put the school within the top 7% of schools nationally for progress.

At The Compton, we understand that our brilliant teachers make a difference to the life chances of our students every day by helping them to secure outstanding outcomes. We always strive to appoint the very best teachers and once in post we provide a work place environment that ensures their needs are fully met now and in the future.

Are you the right person to join our team? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About The Compton School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1349 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Compton School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-compton-school

The Compton school is part of Middlesex Learning Trust, a successful Multi Academy Trust. We are a hugely oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had four consecutive outstanding OFSTED reports, the most recent being in January 2018. The Compton has a national profile for excellence in teaching and learning, in leadership, and for student outcomes. It is also a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training Centre and the Headteacher is an experienced National Leader of Education. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely putting the school within the top 5% of schools nationally for progress.

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