21 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    January 2026

  • Closing date

    10 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    20 October 2025

Job details

Job role

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Subject

History

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

MPS/UPS

Additional allowances

MPS/UPS

Teacher of History (Maternity Cover) job summary

We are a highly supportive school with strong subject and senior leadership to help you develop. We are looking for an enthusiastic professional to join our History department; someone who is passionate about their subject, communicates well with young people and makes a positive impact on their learning.

Being an all-through school allows us to work closely with Primary colleagues and share best practice between Phases to ensure smooth transition for students on entry in to the Secondary phase. There are also exciting plans to extend our Post-16 provision.

The History department comprises of 3 full-time teachers, including a Curriculum Leader and an Achievement Director who are all passionate Historians.. We are looking for a fourth full-time member of the team to cover maternity leave. Teachers are encouraged to use their own expertise, select sources and material suitable to the learners in their classes and have flexibility in how they address learning objectives to ensure the best outcomes for their students.

The successful candidate will make their lessons engaging, relevant and teach students about the world they live in to help them make sense of modern life by linking to past lives and current events. The successful candidate will value developing key employability and life skills such as analysing evidence, considering impact, critical thinking, research, reciprocation and value developing literacy.

History is a popular GCSE option and we have 12 classes across KS4. GCSE studies start in Year 9. The successful candidate will be able to teach up to KS4 across a wide range of abilities and be an inspirational practitioner.

At KS4, our students currently follow AQA.

Aylesbury Vale Academy has outperformed all other local non-selective schools. History GCSE results evidence students make good progress. The gaps between the progress of SEN and Pupil Premium students continues to narrow. The successful candidate will be joining an extremely effective department with ambitious goals who do not take students' background as a barrier to achievement.

The successful applicant will be passionate about learning, have strong inter-personal skills, be resilient and e an excellent teacher. The ideal candidate will have great subject knowledge. A willingness to teach Geography alongside History would be an advantage.

Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.

We have the right to withdraw the advert before the closing date should we feel we are able to appoint.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.

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About The Aylesbury Vale Academy

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 19
Education phase
Through
School size
1831 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 19
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School website
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Thank you for expressing your interest in the post of Teacher of IT. This is a school where we aim to go beyond the expected to ensure that students' life chances are enhanced.

We are proud of our non-selective, fully inclusive status and believe that children and young people, regardless of their background, ability or circumstances can thrive and succeed here. That is why we place respect, aspiration and resilience at the heart of everything we do.

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