Teacher of Maths
Preston School Academy, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 3JD24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
4 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
- To teach effective lessons and be responsible for this to the Head through the Team Leader.
- To ensure that lessons are well prepared, all work marked regularly, and homework set according to agreed policy.
- To maintain records of pupil attainment, and to be aware of standards achieved, so enabling assessments to be provided whenever necessary.
- To produce effective reports on pupil progress and targets for improvement.
- To ensure high standards of behaviour from students.
- To work as a member of a team, seeking to implement its aims and objectives, extending knowledge and understanding of the curriculum, recognising the need for change, and contributing where necessary to the writing/development of new material and schemes of work.
- To attend all team meetings (subject and pastoral).
- To discuss with the Team Leader and colleagues those aspects of pupils’ performance which are a cause for concern, and to seek advice, guidance or support where appropriate.
- To promote the general progress and personal and social well-being of any assigned group of pupils through the school’s tutorial and PSE programme.
- To participate in performance management – identifying areas for development and accessing appropriate training and professional development.
- To provide work for classes (whenever possible) when absent.
- To communicate and consult with the parents of pupils through attendance at Parents’ Evenings.
- To have regard to the school Health and Safety policy.
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons across the subject.
What the school offers its staff
There are many advantages to working for us. Included in your actual annual salary is generous annual leave entitlement, access to a local government pension scheme, sick pay scheme, cycle-to-work scheme, free eye tests and employee assistance helpline. You also have access to an employee benefits platform which offers savings on everyday essentials to special offers on travel, dining, and entertainment.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jaclyn.surrey@prestonschool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Preston School Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 983 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Preston School Academy website
- Email address
- jaclyn.surrey@prestonschool.co.uk
Preston School is a highly successful 11-16 Specialist Business and Enterprise Academy in Yeovil, Somerset.
We believe that in order to enable learners to reach their full potential and for their unique talents to be nurtured and developed, there needs to be an on-going partnership and dialogue between home and school that provides the foundation for learning and achievement.
If students are to learn effectively, they need to be healthy, feel safe, and be happy and secure in school; we must all play our part in achieving this. Our objective is to guarantee success for every individual and much of what we do is designed to find the key that unlocks their interests and skills, enabling them to be successful both at Preston School and beyond.
Arranging a visit to Preston School Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jaclyn.surrey@prestonschool.co.uk.
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