Teacher of Mathematics
Chapel-en-le-Frith High School, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK23 0TQThis job expired on 5 December 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
17 April 2023
Closing date
5 December 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 November 2022
Job details
Job role
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Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,000 - £43,685
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification
Qualified teacher status
Experience of teaching maths at KS3 and KS4
A track record of delivering good to outstanding progress in maths
A good understanding of using data to identify underachievement and areas for improvement
A good knowledge of teaching and learning strategies in maths and the ability to communicate them to others
Ability to relate positively to all pupils and show a fundamental commitment to them and their development
Experience of working with students with SEND
Commitment to achieving high standards
Enthusiasm for maths
Desirable:
Recent CPD or experience that supports the development of the maths curriculum
Experience as a form tutor
The ability to contribute to another subject in school
What the school offers its staff
Excellent pension scheme
Continuous CPD
Further details about the role
Mathematics Department at Chapel-en-le-Frith High School
Mathematics is a dynamic and successful department with attainment that is consistently above national average.
Students here enjoy maths, the department is well led and well organised, and we have a strong staff team.
The team currently comprises seven specialist maths teachers led by an experienced head of department and second in department. The department benefits from having a high level teaching assistant who specialises in maths.
We are currently advertising two jobs, one is a maternity cover starting at Christmas, or as soon as possible afterwards. The second role is a permanent post. This permanent post will expand our maths staffing and provide more capacity in the team.
The department teach the Edexcel GCSE specification.
The Department is based in a suite of six specialist rooms, each with a data projector and smart board. The department is well resourced with a variety of texts and linked ICT-based resources.
This is a highly inclusive school and many groups have students with special educational needs. These could be mainstream students with SEND or students from our enhanced resource who are integrated into mainstream lessons. The Learning Support department is often able to provide in-class support for these pupils and the teacher appointed will need to be able to work effectively with support staff.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school uses robust safer recruitment procedures that meet the requirements of KCSiE . These processes are designed to deter and prevent people who are unsuitable to work with children from applying for or securing employment or volunteering opportunities in the school.
Our processes form a vital part of our whole school approach to safeguarding and are an essential part of creating a safe environment for our learners. Further details on the safer recruitment of staff in school can be found in our Child Protection and Safeguarding policy.
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About Chapel-en-le-Frith High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 931 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- dhibbert@chapelhigh.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01298813118
An introduction to our school
Our school is an 11-16 mixed, community, comprehensive school of around 950 students. We are lucky to be based in a relatively new building, with great facilities, on a beautiful site at the edge of the Peak District market town of Chapel-en-le-Frith. The Peak District National Park is quite literally on the school’s doorstep and provides endless opportunities for walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, climbers, cavers and other outdoor enthusiasts.
The nearest big towns to the school are Buxton and Stockport but good transport links mean that the school’s staff travel from a wide area with many commuting from Manchester, Sheffield, Chesterfield and the towns of East Cheshire. A sizable contingent of staff live in the villages of the Peak District. For anyone considering relocating it is a wonderful area in which to live, with a good mix of housing, decent schools, easy commutes and a good quality of life.
We believe that our school is unusual in many ways. Perhaps the most obvious of these, which may even make us unique, is structural. The current school was formed by merging, in a new building, the local area special school with the existing high school. The special school became the current 35 place enhanced resourced SEND provision, always referred to simply as ‘Learning Support’ in school. To meet the moderate to severe special educational needs of its cohort, Learning Support operates as a ‘school within a school’. The Learning Support department runs a full independent curriculum with significant dedicated SEND trained staffing. Whilst Learning Support can provide an independent, tailored, learning experience for students, in every other way this cohort is fully integrated into the life of the school. This arrangement makes for a wonderfully inclusive school with young people who are very accepting of difference. Our inclusive approach spreads more widely too and we often buck local and national trends by accepting students with difficult and complex backgrounds.
This inclusivity does however make the school’s published data rather tricky to interpret. The DfE data effectively merges the results of an average sized comprehensive school with that of a special school. In short, though we think our 2023 performance table outcomes look quite respectable, we are rather better than the raw numbers make us look. Some years ago, we set ourselves a challenge; “to achieve results ranking alongside the best schools nationally; whilst remaining a highly inclusive, friendly, community school”. We have not achieved this yet, but it is a mantra that has guided us since. Undoubtedly, the balance between inclusivity and excellence is a difficult one, but both governors and staff are fully committed to making it work, despite its undoubted challenges in the current educational environment.
We think that we are different in other ways too. Our governors value the arts and creative subjects and we retain high uptake in these areas. We are not a top-down organisation; we are a team, and we work together to do the best we can for the young people in our care. If you join us, you can become involved in developing the future of our school community. Perhaps most importantly, we recognise that happy, committed staff make for a successful school; we work really hard to look after and develop our staff.
Visitors to our school notice these differences. People frequently comment on the sense of community, the calm atmosphere, and the fact that our staff smile, joke and enjoy what they do. At the start of our most recent Ofsted inspection the lead inspector commented, after meeting the staff in briefing, that he had never met such a welcoming, smiley and relaxed staff team at the start of an inspection. The report from that inspection, in May 2019, gives a very good picture of the organisation that we are.
Like most schools, we have our strengths and weaknesses. We are proud of the work we have done recently on curriculum development, on teaching and learning and on research-based practice, with many staff now engaged with research and further professional qualifications. Our challenges remain those of many rural schools, getting our results to be clearly above average requires that we better engage disadvantaged students and that we raise aspirations of some boys in particular.
We are in the minority of secondary schools that remain local authority run. This is by choice after careful research and consideration. We are not, however, an isolated school. We have good links with other local schools, with local further education providers and with universities. We are a member of the Peak Edge Group of local primary and secondary schools.
Arranging a visit to Chapel-en-le-Frith High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email dhibbert@chapelhigh.org.uk.
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