Teacher of History (maternity cover)
Skinners' Kent Academy, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 4PY6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
28 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 November 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- History
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - From April 2025 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
The History team is a dynamic and innovative department with a consistent track record of delivering excellent progress and results for students. It is part of Malala House alongside Geography, GPS, RS, Citizenship, Psychology and a host of other subjects within the Humanities family. We offer a variety of trips to locations such as the Battlefields, Berlin and Krakow.
We firmly believe that the teaching of History at SKA must be highly engaging and relevant to all students. Our focus is on modern history, and we use a variety of teaching strategies to improve the way students think whilst encouraging their independent learning skills. History is regarded as one of the five key ‘facilitating subjects’ by employers and universities. Our students understand that the subject is both highly valuable as an academic qualification, but also enriches their appreciation and understanding of the wider world.
Through the study of History, we aim to develop our students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes in line with the IB learner profile, which aims to develop learners as inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, risk-takers, reflective and balanced individuals. The History department consists of teaching from KS3 to KS5. We offer the IB MYP History curriculum in KS3, the AQA History in KS4 and in KS5 we offer the IBDP History course.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- A valuable pension package
- Fitness suite and sports facilities
- Local authority rewards scheme
- E platform/digital library
- Staff car park including EV charging station
Commitment to safeguarding
The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.
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About Skinners' Kent Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1036 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Skinners' Kent Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk
The Skinners’ Kent Academy is a non-fee paying, co-educational, all-ability Secondary school. The Academy is funded by the DfE and sponsored by The Skinners’ School, a grammar school for boys together with the Skinners’ Company, one of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of the City of London.
The Academy is founded on the principles of a commitment to ensuring high standards and high aspirations, of active participation, an emotionally rich learning environment and an inclusive culture where every child is known and every learner supported.
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