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Teacher of Mathematics
The Malling School, West Malling, Kent, ME19 6DHThis job expired on 20 May 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
20 May 2022 at 8am
Date listed
11 May 2022
Job details
Job role
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Subject
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Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
Potential TLR to be discussed at interview for the right candidate
Teacher of Mathematics job summary
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and values driven teacher to join a dedicated and supportive department. The successful candidate will be required to teach Mathematics to GCSE level.
The Malling School is an extremely positive, happy and caring place for young people to learn. Our core school values are ‘Caring, Determined and Reflective’ and these values are embraced by all staff and children. The Malling School is proud to announce that we have been awarded the ‘Character Education Kitemark +’ and have been recognised as a school of character. The Malling School has recently been selected to be a character education hub to support schools nationally.
Comments by assessors:
“We are delighted to award the Malling School the School of Character Kitemark, a great testament to the school's leadership, staff and pupils”
“Behaviour in the school is generally outstanding and the overall calmness between lessons and in non-supervised areas was striking. Students were confident and assertive but always polite and appreciative of the needs of others”
We have a very strong behaviour for learning policy. Low-level disruption is not tolerated allowing teachers to do what we do best, teach. All staff receive regular informal behaviour for learning training to ensure we are consistent in our application of the policy. Students are very clear around our high expectations of behaviour and attitude in every classroom. The key to the success of the policy is the proactive targeting of poor work ethic and low-level disruption by every teacher. Students that slow down the pace of learning are transferred out of the lesson and collected by our senior leaders.
The leadership team ensures that all our improvement strategies are clearly communicated to staff, effectively piloted, evaluated and well thought through. Our key principle when introducing any new initiative is to ensure that there is no unnecessary workload and that it has a high impact on student progress.
The successful candidate will join the Mathematics department which has high staff retention and a track record for developing teachers into future leaders. The department continues to enjoy it’s efficient marking, feedback and homework policies that maximize impact on pupil outcomes while respecting staff workload. Subject CPD and training is delivered within departments weekly with whole school pedagogy training delivered in morning briefings. The Mathematics department is outward looking and collaborative and annually participates with training and curriculum projects with external colleagues and outstanding schools.
We can offer you:
• Opportunities to teach Mathematics to International Baccalaureate Level (KS5)
• Opportunities for accelerated promotion for outstanding teachers
• Extensive and individualised professional development programme
• A new school with outstanding facilities
• Robust behaviour systems
• No formal observations – instead Developmental Learning Walks
with ongoing feedback,
helping you and your department to continuously develop
• The opportunity to significantly impact outcomes through contributing to the continued
development and improvements of an ever-evolving Mathematics curriculum
You will be:
• A teacher of Mathematics looking for new and exciting opportunities
• A Mathematics NQT/ECT looking to secure September teaching post with a possible start
in the summer term
• The ability to teach Mathematics to KS3 and GCSE is essential
• Experience of delivering IB Maths diploma subjects would be desirable
• Innovative and reflective in your approach to teaching
• Able to achieve excellent examination results for children
• Motivated by a desire to change lives
• A qualified teacher
We highly recommend that if you have applied or are considering applying for the post that you contact the school to arrange a visit during a normal school day to experience the outstanding behaviour, high expectations and achievement in lessons, warm and welcoming staff and the kind and respectful students. Contact: hr@themallingschool.kent.sch.uk
Please apply via the DfE website.
Closing date: Friday 20th May 2022
Interviews: w/c Monday 23rd May 2022
The Malling School is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of all children and young people. All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure, Occupational Health check, two satisfactory references and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order (1975, 2013,2020)
Applications will be considered upon receipt and we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy should sufficient interest be received. Only candidates successfully shortlisted for interview will be contacted.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Malling School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young
people and all staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and
regulations to safeguard children and young people. All staff are to have due regard for safeguarding
and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to follow the child protection
procedures adopted by The Malling School. Any safeguarding or child protection issues must be
acted upon immediately by informing the Designated Child Protection Officer.
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About The Malling School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1010 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Malling School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@themallingschool.kent.sch.uk
The Malling School is an extremely positive, happy and caring place for young people to learn. We are a small stand-alone foundation school and are very proud of our wonderful students and talented staff. We are fully committed to continually developing our teaching at The Malling School. We have no formal lesson observations and a strong open culture of improving our teaching together through regular low stakes developmental learning walks.
Our strategy to improve outcomes for our students is not through short term unsustainable Y11 intervention but through developing our curriculum together and continually reflecting and improving our daily practice in every classroom for every year group.
We have a very strong behaviour for learning policy. Low-level disruption is not tolerated allowing teachers to do what we do best, teach. All staff receive regular informal behaviour for learning training to ensure we are consistent in our application of the policy. Students are very clear around our high expectations of behaviour and attitude in every classroom. The key to the success of the policy is the proactive targeting of poor work ethic and low-level disruption by every teacher. Students that slow down the pace of learning are transferred out of the lesson and collected by our senior leaders. The leadership team ensures that all our improvement strategies are clearly communicated to staff, effectively piloted, evaluated and well thought through. Our key principle when introducing any new initiative is to ensure that there is no unnecessary workload and that it has a high impact on student progress.
We can offer you:
• Opportunities to teach your specialist subject to GCSE, Level 3 BTEC and International Baccalaureate Level
• Opportunities for accelerated promotion for outstanding teachers
• Extensive and individualised professional development program that focusses on both pedagogy and subject knowledge
• A new school with outstanding facilities
• Robust behaviour systems
• No formal observations – instead Developmental Learning Walks with ongoing feedback, helping you and your department to continuously develop
• CPD starts as soon as you are appointed
Arranging a visit to The Malling School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@themallingschool.kent.sch.uk.
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