Teacher of History
George Green's School, London, E14 3DW4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
23 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- History, Humanities
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday - 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS / UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
1. Qualification
QTS status.
2. Knowledge and Understanding
- A clear and well-thought-out understanding of current educational issues, theory, and practice.
- Have a detailed knowledge of the relevant aspects of the students’ National Curriculum and other statutory requirements.
- Have a secure knowledge and understanding of their specialist subject(s).
- Understand progression in their specialist subject(s).
- Cope securely with subject-related questions that students raise and know about students’ common misconceptions and mistakes in their specialist subject(s).
3. Planning and setting expectations
- Identify clear teaching objectives, content, lesson structures, and sequences appropriate to the subject matter and the students being taught.
- Set appropriate and demanding expectations for students' learning and motivation. Set clear targets for students' learning, building on prior attainment.
- Identify students who have special educational needs, and know where to get help in order to give positive and targeted support. Implement and keep records on Individual Education Plans (IEPs).
- Plan effectively to meet the needs of students with a range of abilities in a mixed-ability setting.
4. Teaching and managing students’ learning
- Ensure effective teaching of whole classes, groups, and individuals so that teaching objectives are met, momentum and challenge are maintained, and best use is made of teaching time.
- Use teaching methods which keep students engaged, including stimulating students’ intellectual curiosity, effective questioning and response, clear presentation, and good use of resources.
- Set high expectations for students’ behaviour, establishing and maintaining a good standard of discipline through well-focused teaching and positive and productive relationships.
5. Assessment and evaluation
- Assess how well learning objectives have been achieved and use this assessment for future teaching.
- Mark and monitor students’ class and homework, providing constructive oral and written feedback, and setting targets for students’ progress.
- When applicable, understand the demands expected of students about the National Curriculum and Key Stage 4 courses.
6. Student achievement
Secure progress towards student targets by using appropriate assessment for learning strategies.
7. Relations with parents and the wider community
- Know how to prepare and present informative reports to parents/carer's.
- Recognise that learning takes place outside the school context and provide opportunities to develop students' understanding by relating their learning to real and work-related examples.
- Understand the need to liaise with agencies responsible for students’ welfare.
8. Managing own performance and professional development
- Understand the need to take responsibility for their professional development and to keep up to date with research and developments in pedagogy and in the subjects they teach.
- Understand their professional responsibilities about school policies and practices.
- Set a good example for the students they teach in their presentation and their conduct.
- Evaluate their teaching critically and use this to improve their effectiveness.
9. Managing and developing staff and other adults
Establish effective working relationships with professional colleagues, including support staff and beginning teachers.
10. Managing resources
- Select and make good use of textbooks and other resources.
- A whole-hearted commitment to implement the School’s Equal Opportunities and Inclusion Policies.
11. Other attributes considered desirable at George Green’s School
- A record of excellent attendance and punctuality.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including appropriate ICT skills.
- The ability to work and contribute effectively within departmental and Year-based teams.
- The ability to work actively and effectively with parents, governors, and other stakeholders.
- Flexibility and a willingness to be involved in the life of George Green's School.
- The ability to use own initiative and motivate others.
- A commitment to teaching and lifelong learning, and a willingness to continue to further own learning through continuing professional development.
- Commitment to implement the School’s Equal Opportunities Policies.
- A developing range of successful teaching strategies.
- A secure knowledge of the importance of data as a means both to measure and to extend progress.
- A high level of organisational and planning skills.
- The ability to create a stimulating visual environment for the classroom.
- The ability to create a dynamic learning environment which values everyone equally.
- A commitment to the vision of George Green's School.
- An awareness of equal opportunities issues generally and specifically how they relate to this area of work.
- A willingness to be a lifelong learner.
What the school offers its staff
Investing in you:
A first-class CPL programme, including dedicated weekly CPL sessions and the opportunity to take part in NPQ programmes at a senior level
Early paid start from July for ECTs
Large A Level cohort
Staff wellbeing programme, including in-house counselling
Excellent amenities on site, including a gym, secure cycle storage and free parking
A strong, supportive teaching culture
Embedded strategies for improving the work-life balance for staff, including our marking policy
Exciting development and teaching opportunities with our partners in the City of London and Canary Wharf.
Our prized, historic location on the River Thames provides endless prospects for our members of staff:
• A diverse and vibrant borough 15 minutes from the centre of London.
• Excellent public transport links including DLR, tube, and bus
• Closely located to a hub of entertainment: Westfield Stratford, the Royal Naval College, the O2 arena, Greenwich and lush, green parks.
• A diverse range of lively restaurants and pubs are dotted throughout the area.
Further details about the role
Whilst we already have very high levels of academic success, with excellent exam outcomes in Key Stages 4 and 5, we remain restless for further improvement. Our overriding ambition is to be an exceptional school, characterised by high expectations, inclusion, and anti-racism.
We are an unapologetically values-driven organization. We want every young person at our school to live happy, safe and economically secure lives. We expect every one of our students to be a change-maker, with an uncompromising commitment to social justice. Everybody who works at George Green’s School believes in our mission to teach our students to be the best possible people they can be.
We are a UNICEF Rights Respecting School Gold Award winner, which means that the rights of the child are at the heart of everything we do. We are a traditional school with a traditional approach to the curriculum and behaviour. Most importantly, we are a happy school, where children from a wide mixture of backgrounds thrive and flourish daily. We are delighted that Ofsted recognised these things when they visited us in May 2022.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@georgegreens.com
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About George Green's School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1249 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- George Green's School website
- Email address
- hr@georgegreens.com
- Phone number
- 0207 987 6032
At George Green’s School, we are deeply committed to being an exceptional school. Our vision and values are deep-rooted and live at the heart of everything we do. We believe that great schools like ours are engines of social change, teaching powerful knowledge to young people so that they can go on to become change-makers and develop into the best possible people they can be. Our vision goes beyond simple success in exams: we will teach our students the cultural, scientific and social knowledge they need to go on to become happy adults, fully engaged in the cultural, economic and democratic life of the society in which they live.
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