Teacher of Geography - Maternity Cover
Attleborough Academy, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17 2AJ3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
23 April 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - to October 2025 half term - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
EDUCATION AND TRAINING • Qualified Teacher Status (with DCSF number) including Numeracy/Literacy/ICT tests for Newly Qualified Teachers after 2002. • First/Second class degree. • Willingness to continue to develop own expertise (evidenced through Continuing Professional Development). • Appropriate qualifications, experience and any other requirements needed to perform the role in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people. TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Evidence of consistently good or outstanding teaching and learning. • Evidence of good or outstanding classroom management skills. • The ability to use ICT effectively to engage students. • The ability to create effective lesson plans. • An understanding of how to use assessment to inform planning for good teaching and learning. • The ability to differentiate materials to meet the needs of learners. • Experience or the desire to be involved in a curriculum initiative. • Experience or the desire to raise standards of achievement. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Knows about: • Strategies for raising achievement and achieving excellence. • Different methods of teaching and learning. • The use of new and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning. • Principles of effective teaching and assessment for learning. • Models of behaviour management. • Strategies for ensuring inclusion and access to the curriculum. • Tools for data collection and analysis
PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES
Is committed to:
• The core values of the Academy (CARE):
Commitment to continuous improvement in everything we do
Acknowledgement of the efforts and achievements of others
Respect and courtesy towards each other and the Academy environment
Excellence in all that we do.
• Inspiring students to aspire to excellence.
• Raising standards for all in the pursuit of excellence.
• The entitlement of all students to effective teaching and learning.
• The safeguarding of all students.
• Effective working relationships and team working.
• Continuing professional development for self and all others.
• A collegiate and collaborative approach to raising standards.
Is able to:
• Demonstrate personal enthusiasm for and commitment to the learning process.
• Demonstrate the principles and practice of effective teaching and learning.
• Access, analyse and interpret information.
• Initiate and support debate about effective learning and teaching.
• Acknowledge excellence and challenge poor performance.
• Foster an open, fair, equitable and respectful culture and manage conflict.
• Collaborate and network with others within and beyond the Academy.
• Give and receive effective feedback and act to improve personal performance.
• Accept support from others including colleagues, the Local Governing Body and the Sapientia
Education Trust.
EXPERIENCE OF EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS
Can demonstrate evidence of:
• High level of performance with personal teaching groups.
• Willingness to embrace new developments.
• Commitment to the broader life of the Academy outside the classroom.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Has:
• A passion for learning and teaching.
• A commitment to inspire the love of learning in young people.
• A positive, enthusiastic outlook, embracing risk and innovation.
• A sense of humour.
• A ‘can do’ approach and is not prone to negativity.
• A realistic and pragmatic understanding of the demands of the teaching profession.
• Empathy and good emotional intelligence.
• High standards and high expectations of self and others.
• Excellent organisational skills – prioritises, keeps calm and thrives under pressure.
Reviewed September 2020
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing to a range of audiences.
• Ability to recognise and celebrate excellence.
• A willingness to embrace change.
• Resilience, perseverance and optimism in the face of challenges.
• Commitment to social justice, equality and excellence.
• Commitment to dignity in the work place.
What the school offers its staff
LGPS
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2024, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
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About Attleborough Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 932 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Attleborough Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- a.rhodes-sayer@setrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01953609012
Attleborough Academy is a popular, 11 to 18 Academy which is continually developing to meet the demands of providing the highest quality education for all students. Later this academic year, Attleborough Academy will be joining the Sapientia Education Trust (SET) which is an exciting and important development for the Academy. The SET are committed to bringing like-minded schools together to work in partnership to develop a world class education. This merger promises to bring multiple benefits in terms of teaching and learning and new opportunities for students and staff.
We are an inclusive, friendly and effective learning community with high aspirations and a reputation for innovation. Excellent relationships between students and staff are at the heart of the ethos of the Academy and are often commented on by those who visit the Academy. The Academy is a hardworking and caring community of people with high standards and high expectations. Our core values are Commitment, Acknowledgement, Respect and Excellence (CARE). CARE therefore has a genuine meaning within our Academy as we want the Academy to be a place where these values are seen in all aspects of our work together.
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