Teacher of History (Maternity Cover)
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy, Sompting, West Sussex, BN15 9QZ21 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
10 March 2025
Latest start date
22 April 2025
Closing date
12 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 December 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- History
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £31650pa to £49084pa
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:-
• demonstrate the skills of a good teacher
• be able to interest, encourage and engage students
• provide appropriate levels of challenge so that all students make good progress
• use methods and resources that enable all students to learn effectively
• use assessment information effectively to plan the next steps in students learning
• make effective use of their time
• secure consistently high standards of behaviour from students
• be able to demonstrate a proven track record of recent and successful class teaching in mixed ability classes of aged 11-18 students (or of successful completion of initial teacher training if applying as an ECT).
What the school offers its staff
At SRWA, our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with wellbeing support, coaching, mentoring and a wide range of top-quality training and CPD programmes delivered at every level up to senior leadership.
SRWA teaching staff benefit from the following:-
• a collaborative approach and strong collegial relationships;
- the opportunity to join and/or benefit from Action Research Groups;
- proven student progress and excellent student behaviour;
- an established STEM group including work with RICARDO Engineering, a world leading company supporting SRWA
- an extensive CPD programme tailored to skills and experience;
- strong links with Brighton and Sussex Universities;
- free employee assistance programme, dedicated staff wellbeing space and 1-1 mental health booster sessions available;
- free use of the Academy’s fitness suite;
- free on site car parking and easy access to local public transport;
- cycle to work scheme;
- free flu jabs.
Further details about the role
We are seeking to appoint an inspirational Historian, who is passionate and enthusiastic, with excellent subject knowledge, to join our Humanities team and help instill in our students a lifelong love of learning history. This is a maternity cover to start on 10 March 2025 (or after Easter, on 22 April 2025 if preferred) and will continue up to one calendar year, or until the colleague returns (if earlier). The ability to teach across KS3-4 is essential. We welcome applications from colleagues (with QTS) at all stages of their career, including ECTs, who are committed to raising achievement in History.
The SRWA History curriculum aims to develop learners that are ‘knowledgeable, skillful and literate’ so that they become great historians. The overarching principle is to deliver a broad, balanced, relevant and diverse curriculum; one that seeks to inspire a lifelong love of History and learning while remaining heavily focused on academic rigour. This supports the Academy’s focus on aspiring for our students to “know more, remember more and be able to do more.”
History is a popular option choice at GCSE and at A level, delivered by a highly experienced and dynamic team who are committed to engaging with the latest pedagogy to compliment their strong subject knowledge. We offer an excellent enrichment programme, regularly running trips to Dover Castle, Hampton Court Palace, the First World War battlefields, the Imperial War Museum, Westminster Abbey, as well as a KS4 residential trip to Berlin. There is also a History of Art super curriculum programme. We have an outstanding KS3 - 5 Holocaust educational programme which serves to educate the wider school community.
Commitment to safeguarding
Woodard Academies Trust and The Sir Robert Woodard Academy are wholly committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All offers of employment will be conditional upon satisfactory safeguarding and vetting checks, carried out in line with the DfE’s Keeping Children Safe in Education regulations. These include an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (including Barred List), references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
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About The Sir Robert Woodard Academy
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1376 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- personnel@srwa.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01903 767434
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy, an Ofsted ‘good’ rated academy and part of the Woodard family of schools, is a dynamic and popular 11–18 academy located between Worthing and Brighton, serving the students of Lancing, Sompting and Shoreham.
Our aim is that every student is known and nurtured and is provided with teaching and learning experiences enabling them to fulfil their potential. We believe that students succeed when the environment is caring and orderly, with teaching that fires the imagination and brings learning to life.
Arranging a visit to The Sir Robert Woodard Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@srwa.co.uk.
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