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  • Job start date

    1 September 2020

  • Closing date

    24 February 2020 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 February 2020

Job details

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Full-time equivalent salary

Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,373 to £40,490 per year (full-time equivalent)

Additional allowances

Great training where we do everything we can to help you develop your practice;
Caring colleagues & wonderful students; and
a culture which values respect, honesty and kindness.

Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages (0.6 - 1.0FTE) job summary

We are seeking a highly effective teacher teach Modern Languages with effect from 1st September 2020. Ideally you should be a Spanish Specialist and have the ability to teach KS3 French or German would be an advantage, but not essential.

We want to develop truly great teaching in our school; it is a driving ambition. Consequently, we want to appoint truly great teachers whose teaching leads to improved student progress. We have our own vision of what Truly Great Teaching looks like. It is simple, it is what we all aspire to when we teach and is summarised below:

We know the students in front of us. The needs of individuals are catered for so that they all feel part of the lesson and can achieve the best possible outcomes. Students feel cared for, known and supported in a teaching environment that is embedded in our core values of respect, honesty and kindness.

We are reflective practitioners who continue to develop excellent subject knowledge. We adopt an evidence-informed approach to learning and teaching.

We understand the literacy and numeracy demands of our students, and all of us support students to access the requirements of the curriculum.

Our students are given strategies to develop memory and metacognition skills. This leads to learning on a deeper level: independence, mastery and resilience.

We all have high expectations for all students. Lessons are appropriately challenging and risk taking, have a clear purpose, unite teacher and learner in a common cause, and inspire creative thinking.

Our feedback is planned, timely, well-structured and accessible, Our students act upon feedback to help them improve.

Our questioning is used to develop thinking and foster deeper understanding. Well planned questioning promotes curiosity and engagement. Teaching encourages our students to ask meaningful questions.

Behaviour for learning is well managed so that our students are active learners who exhibit the school core values.

Our teaching promotes key life skills, so that out students are prepared for the world beyond school, emphasising connections between subject learning and real life applications.

We also expect teachers to complete all administrative tasks in a professional manner and to meet all the Teachers' Standards.

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.

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About Huntington School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
1509 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Huntington School is a highly successful comprehensive school in the northern suburbs of the historic city of York. Our core purpose is to inspire confident learners who will thrive in a changing world.

Founded in 1966 and with the more recent accolade of becoming one of the country’s first and leading Research Schools we have established an enviable reputation for our expertise and innovation in teaching and learning, coupled with our school values of respect, honesty, and kindness.

Huntington is an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive school with a Sixth Form taking our total student numbers to approximately 1516, which includes over 300 students in the Sixth Form. Our students achieve excellent results, year-in, year-out, both at GCSE and A-level. Our A-level results place us in the top 10% of providers nationally and we rarely have any NEET students.

In Oct 2017, Ofsted rated the school outstanding in all areas. That judgment is a reflection of a lot of hard work, but only forms part of what makes Huntington so special. As a school, we by no means rest on our laurels, but continually strive to be better.

At Huntington School, we believe that people matter most! We believe our school is made a special place by the students and staff who come here together to learn. We believe that positive, respectful relationships between everyone in our school are crucially important in making Huntington an exciting place to study. We think that we have created an atmosphere at Huntington where we can all thrive together, where the conditions for growth are just right.

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