Teacher of Geography
Skegness Grammar School, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE25 2QSThis job expired on 16 April 2023
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
16 April 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time teaching hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 – UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Qualified Teacher Status, including NQT
- Evidence of recent professional development or in-service training
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Experience of raising levels of achievement and attainment
- Effective use of data to inform planning
- Experience of lesson planning and effective assessment for learning
- Maintaining a high standard of teaching and learning
- The central role of ICT in teaching and learning
- Curriculum issues and development
- Improvement – raising achievement
- An understanding of teaching in a secondary school, particularly one with grammar school students
- Enable students to achieve high expectations through good quality teaching and learning
- Be able to teach to A Level
- A love of teaching and a desire for students to achieve highly
- Build and maintain relationships with staff, governors, parents, students and the community
- Demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm and motivation
- Foster an open, fair and courteous environment
- Demonstrate strong analytical skills to inform improvement
- Be innovative and able to manage change
- Communicate effectively with a range of audiences
- Have a genuine liking of young people
- Show they have a sense of humour and perspective
- Adaptability, flexibility and determination
- Work independently and as part of a team
- Suitability to work with children
- Be in possession of an enhanced DBS clearance
- Inspire, motivate, challenge and empower others
- Build and manage effective team(s)
- Experience of teaching Humanities in a secondary school
What the school offers its staff
M1 – UPS3 £28,000 - £43,685 per annum
Access to Teachers' Pension Scheme
Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in Education
Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
Rewards and Recognition Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Further details about the role
Skegness Grammar School is looking for a Teacher of Geography to implement and deliver a knowledge rich curriculum and support the overall progress and development of our students. You will facilitate and encourage an engaging learning experience which provides students the opportunity to achieve their full potential. You will have the opportunity to deliver a curriculum which has been developed with subject experts and which is rooted in academic rigour to students who are keen to learn. The teacher is the expert in the classroom and a centralised behaviour system will support you in ensuring a calm and purposeful learning environment. Ofsted noted that “Pupils are polite and courteous to each other and adults. They know how to behave well and understand why good behaviour is important. They conduct themselves very well in lessons and during social times. Low-level disruption in lessons is not tolerated, allowing pupils to focus on their learning.”
You will be working in the well-established and friendly humanities team who have experience in supporting ITT, NQT and ECTs. Enrichment opportunities are also a key part of our offer as a faculty including past trips to Parliament, the Battlefields of The First World War and Geography fieldwork trips around the UK. We are enthusiastic about grounding our teaching in research and rowing together to ensure that our students have an outstanding educational experience.
There is potential for you to teach from KS3-KS5. This role is suitable for NQTs and more experienced teachers.
Permanent contract, full time teaching hours
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 Skegness Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 669 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Skegness Grammar School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- enquiries@skegnessgrammar.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01754610000
Located in Skegness, Lincolnshire, The Skegness Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school. First opened in 1483 by the founder of Magdalen College Oxford, William de Waynflete, the school has operated on its current site since 1933. After spending some time as a grant-maintained school, it converted to academy status in 2012, and is currently under the sponsorship of the David Ross Education Trust, a multi-academy group responsible for the running of a number of schools across the country. The school is smaller than average, with around 550 students, a small number of whom are boarders living on a separate school-r
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