Teacher of MFL (Spanish & KS3 French)
Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3JD25 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
27 April 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 April 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- French, Languages, Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1-M2
What skills and experience we're looking for
Cranbrook School is seeking to appoint an early careers teacher to teach Spanish up to KS5 and French up to KS3. This is a full-time permanent post commencing on 1 September 2026.
If you are a passionate linguist who can bring language and culture to life and inspire, motivate, and challenge your classes, we would be delighted to hear from you.
We are seeking a teacher who can deliver consistently excellent lessons and is driven by the ambition to help students achieve the very highest outcomes — A and A* grades at A-Level, and 7–9 grades at GCSE.
Teachers in the department are encouraged to be innovative and reflective in their planning and delivery, using a wide range of up-to-date and relevant resources. Lessons are well planned to ensure that students of all abilities are supported and challenged. We are continually refining and developing our schemes of work to reflect the evolving nature of the subject and new specifications.
Our department is friendly, supportive, and dynamic. The new MFL teacher will need to be a team player and be keen to become actively involved in the life of the department, ensuring effective and high-quality teaching. Being involved in trips is also essential. The successful candidate will be taking on a significant role in a fantastic school, in which teachers and pupils share the learning experience and make tremendous progress.
What the school offers its staff
The MFL department is creative, dynamic, and ambitious, with a strong commitment to promoting a love of languages from the start. We offer a welcoming and supportive working environment.
Our MFL Department comprises a team of four passionate linguists with strong subject knowledge. All staff teach across the three key stages and all can teach more than one language at KS3. We pride ourselves on the strength of our teaching and learning strategies, our collaborative ethos, and our shared commitment to student success. Our team brings together a range of experience and subject expertise, and we are passionate about delivering high-quality lessons that inspire and challenge our students to reach their full academic potential.
The Spanish curriculum at Cranbrook School is designed to foster a love of language learning, cultural awareness, and confident communication. It aims to provide all students, including those with SEND, with the opportunity to develop linguistic competence and intercultural understanding, preparing them for life in a global society. The department works well together with a common goal to give all students a positive experience of learning a language, discovering different cultures, and ultimately creating life-long language learners.
In Y7, all students start off with French, Spanish and Latin. In Y8, they opt for a combination of two languages. At KS3, our aim is to develop an enthusiasm for the culture and build students’ confidence in the language by creating a supportive yet stretching and engaging environment.
At KS4, studying one language (French, Spanish or Latin) is compulsory for all. Most students choose to study one, with some dedicated linguists keeping two. We follow the AQA syllabus.Beyond GCSE, we offer both French and Spanish A-level for students who have reached a minimum of a grade 7 at GCSE. We follow the AQA syllabus and aim to allow students to further their skills and understanding of the language and its specific culture and history by providing a stimulating and challenging programme of study.
At each Key Stage we offer study trips abroad to both France (in Year 7 and then in Y10 and 12) and Spain (in Year 8 and then Y11 and 13).
Cranbrook School is a mixed state grammar school with c.900 pupils aged 11-18 years, including around 250 boarders. Founded in 1518, it provides a challenging and supportive curriculum so that students of all abilities are catered for. The value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of our provision. Our most recent Ofsted inspections rated us as ‘Outstanding’ (boarding, 2025) and ‘Good’ (education, 2022).
Pupils join at the age of 11 or 13, and in Year 10 they start GCSEs in nine or ten subjects. Most students then qualify for the Sixth Form, this being supplemented by a healthy intake into Year 12 from other schools. All Sixth Formers take at least three A levels and can choose the EPQ and other qualifications in addition.
Within the seventy acres of school grounds we have six boarding houses, the Queen’s Hall Theatre (used for assemblies, school productions, visiting theatre companies and concerts), a large library and lecture theatre. Sports facilities include a large sports hall, dance studio, cardio gym, weights room, heated outdoor swimming pool, squash courts and extensive playing fields and facilities for games - hockey, rugby, cricket, netball, tennis and athletics – as well as an astro-turf pitch. The school also possesses a Performing Arts Centre that houses a drama studio and music practice rooms, and a vibrant Sixth Form Centre. The school boasts an Observatory named after Dr Piers Sellers OBE, an Old Cranbrookian and NASA astronaut.
Cranbrook is keen to educate the whole person and to this end it runs a wide programme of extra-curricular activities, including the Combined Cadet Force and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, as well as a broad range of sports, music and drama, both during the week and at the weekend. We have a long tradition of overseas trips and, in recent years, groups have travelled to South America, Portugal, Nepal, and southern India for sports tours, exchanges, adventure, and to work on projects.
Cranbrook’s boarding houses each have their own ethos and identity and a marked sense of house pride. There is a full fixture programme on weekends and a variety of trips and activities on Sundays, for which a number of staff give up their time. The boarding life of the School offers both staff and students new and enriching experiences and makes this an exciting and fun place to work.
Benefits of working at Cranbrook include:
- Lunch in the dining hall every day
- Use of the sports facilities and gyms
- Regular socials and use of our on-site bar, the Coach House
- Priority entry for staff children (subject to criteria)
- A rural site in a small country town, Cranbrook is around fifteen miles from Maidstone, Ashford, Hastings and Tunbridge Wells, and London is just an hour away by train from nearby Staplehurst.
General information about the school can also be found on our website at www.cranbrookschool.co.uk.
Further information about the job
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
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View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Cranbrook School
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 918 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cranbrook School website
- Email address
- hawkess@cranbrook.kent.sch.uk
Cranbrook School is a mixed day and boarding grammar school for students aged 11-18
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