Teacher of Maths

Kingsway Park High School, Rochdale, Lancashire, OL16 4XA

7 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
15 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
26 September 2024

Job details

Job role: Teacher
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject: Mathematics
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are currently looking to appoint a teacher who has a real passion and enthusiasm for Mathematics and has the desire to make a real difference to the lives of all our students. They must be committed to continually improving their teaching and learning and have high expectations and beliefs that every student can be successful.

‘We belong’ to a team of 11 Mathematicians, based on the second floor in their own HUB space. Each teaching room is equipped with an interactive white board and the department have their own small class set of laptops. Most of the team have their own teaching space and have access to a central work area too. In the work area, ‘we pioneer’ by collaboratively planning, regularly communicating, and support each other. The team has a wealth of experience and ‘we cooperate’ regularly by developing our teaching skills and knowledge. We offer GCSE statistics as an option subject alongside GCSE mathematics. We follow a bespoke KS3 scheme, which is continually reviewed and there are opportunities to be involved with curriculum and assessment development. KS4 is assessed by Edexcel, both maths and statistics.

Teaching Duties and Responsibilities:

Plan and prepare lessons in accordance with school policy, ensuring the use of a variety of teaching strategies, which involve planned formative assessment and active learning strategies.
Plan lessons that are differentiated for the individual needs of students.
Ensure students are engaged through provision of clear structure for lessons, maintaining pace, motivation, and challenges following the department’s curriculum.
Develop opportunities to allow students to think and talk about their learning, develop resilience, independence, concentration, and perseverance.
Work actively to create an ethos that promotes equality, celebrates cultural and academic diversity, and ensures the inclusion of students of all abilities, including those with special educational needs.
Display sound knowledge and understanding of Mathematics (and Statistics.)
Establish good relationships with both staff and students that promote the achievement of learning, whilst maintaining a purposeful and positive atmosphere in the classroom
Monitor and intervene when teaching to ensure effective learning and maintain a safe environment in which students feel confident.
Self-evaluate teaching of self to improve effectiveness.
Participate in professional development opportunities and the school’s appraisal process taking responsibility for own development
Help keep their own knowledge and understanding relevant and up-to-date by reflecting on their own practice.
Keep full attendance records sending electronic class attendance data promptly.
Assess and record students’ progress systematically and keep accurate records to check work is understood and completed. Ability to monitor strengths and weaknesses, inform planning and recognise the grade at which your classes are achieving.
Mark, monitor and return work within a reasonable and agreed time span providing constructive oral and or written feedback that clearly indicates strategies for improvement. Ensure students are very clear as to how to move specifically to the next grade/level.
Maintain individual records of all student’s progress, experiences and achievements and use data to inform future planning.
Work collaboratively with colleagues and parents/carers.
Promote positive student behaviour in line with school policies within the department.
Attend parent’s evenings according to the school calendar to keep students’ families and/or their carers

What the school offers its staff

Background Information

Kingsway Park High School was established in 2010 and joined the Altus Education Partnership in February 2022. We are now a very popular oversubscribed school (1350 students in years 7-11 and 190 staff) located in central Rochdale. We are very proud of the high-quality facilities, resources, and environment that we provide for both staff and students.

At Kingsway Park High School we strive to transform students’ lives. Through our relationships, we endeavour to instil both resilience and an intrinsic motivation to become confident, creative and highly skilled students, capable of meeting tomorrow’s challenges head on. We strive to establish a culture rooted in achievement and progress that encourages our students to grow academically, personally and socially; equipping them with the values of equality, fairness and openness. We pride ourselves on our relentless drive to achieve outstanding, high quality teaching that provides a safe, supportive and encouraging environment for all our students to be able to realise their academic potential in pursuit of educational excellence.

Altus Education Partnership

The Altus Education Partnership is a Multi Academy Trust and was established in April 2017 by the Governing Body of Rochdale Sixth Form College, an outstanding A-Level provider founded in 2010. The college was awarded Outstanding status by Ofsted in 2013 and has developed a national reputation for excellence, having been used in Ofsted case studies for sharing best practice. The development of the Trust stemmed from a commitment to raising aspirations and improving the life chances of young people throughout the borough of Rochdale. In 2019 the Trust was successful in its application to open a new free school, the Edgar Wood Academy, which serves the local community in Middleton and Heywood.

We are committed to supporting all children in their academies to progress to a successful career, life and employment path of their choice.

All our academies will share a collective identity as providers of the highest quality teaching with high expectations of learners, coupled with effective assessment and intervention. Young people in our academies will engage with opportunities to develop their own skills and aptitudes to support their progression, while making valuable contributions to their communities. Leaders, teachers and support staff will take a collaborative approach, sharing best practice at a local, regional and national level, to continuously improve the performance and outcomes of all academies in the Trust.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.