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Teacher of Geography
Verulam School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 4PR7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2024
Closing date
9 October 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 August 2023
Job details
Visa sponsorship
- No, visa sponsorship not available
Subject
- View all Geographyjobs
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS +Fringe
Teacher of Geography job summary
MPS-UPS + Fringe
Full time
Permanent / Fixed Term Contract
For January 2024
Applications from ECTs welcome
We are
seeking a dynamic and innovative subject specialist to join our Geography
faculty. Geography is a popular option at GCSE and A-Level with over 70
students following the A Level course. At Key Stage 4 we teach the AQA
syllabus and the Edexcel A Level specification to Sixth Formers as part of the
highly successful BeauSandVer consortium.
Field trips play an important part of learning and
include out bi-annual overseas trips which have included Iceland, Estonia,
Finland, Sweden and the USA.
The school places great emphasis on
extra-curricular activity and engagement, and benefits from outstanding
attendance and exemplary behaviour.
We are located in St Albans, a
beautiful and vibrant Cathedral city with a lively cultural life and a huge
variety of restaurants, bars, pubs and shops. Recently named in the Sunday
Times as the best place in the southeast to live, St Albans is surrounded by beautiful
countryside but is still only 20 minutes from London by trainand with easy access to
motorways and airports.
Verulam School is a high achieving boys’ school with a mixed Sixth Form,
which forms part of the highly successful BeauSandVer consortium. As a school, our core values of “Excellence,
Character, Respect” permeate all that we do.
The school has good GCSE and A Level
results and achieved an above average Progress 8 score of +0.22 in 2019 and
+0.05 for 2022. It was judged to be a Good school in all categories by Ofsted
in October 2018.
Verulam
School is a member of the Alban Academies Trust, together with Sandringham and
Ridgeway Secondary Schools, and 4 Primary and Infants’ Schools.We
worktogether
within the Trust to share best practice, deliver
joint training, promote the highest of expectations and raise achievement for
all students. The Trust’s motto is ‘Educational Excellence for All.’ The Trust
offers significant opportunities for career development of staff at all levels
of the organisation.
Verulam School is an equal
opportunity employer, committed to diversity and the creation of an inclusive
environment for all employees. Employment selections are made according to
suitability for the post, irrespective of background or protected
characteristic. Verulam School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection
screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the
Disclosure and Barring Service.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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About Verulam School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1066 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
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Verulam School is a high achieving boys’ school with a mixed Sixth Form, which forms part of the highly successful BeauSandVer consortium. As a school, our core values of “Excellence, Character, Respect” permeate all that we do. We are located in St Albans, a beautiful Cathedral city with a lively cultural life surrounded by countryside but still only 20 minutes from London by train and with easy access to motorways and airports.
The school has good GCSE and A Level results and achieved an above average Progress 8 score of +0.22 in 2019. (Last national data set). It was judged to be a Good school in all categories by Ofsted in October 2018.
Verulam School is a member of the Alban Academies Trust, together with Sandringham, Ridgeway, Wheatfields Junior and Wheatfields Infants’ and Nursery schools. We work together within the Trust to share best practice, deliver joint training, promote the highest of expectations and raise achievement for all students. The Trust’s motto is ‘Educational Excellence for All.’ The Trust offers significant opportunities for career development of staff at all levels of the organisation.
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