TEACHER OF MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES (French)
Millom School, Millom, Cumbria, LA18 5ABThis job expired on 19 June 2025
Closing date
19 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- French
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an innovative, dynamic classroom teacher of Modern Foreign Languages who is looking for an opportunity to shine in a supportive, small school. The successful candidate will have genuine enthusiasm for the subject, and a good subject knowledge. He or she must be committed to inclusive education and will have the ability to motivate and inspire young people through their passion and ability to engage with them. The ability to teach French to GCSE level is required.
The successful candidate will be joining a school in which he or she will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to both the department and the wider school.
We would welcome applications from ECTs.
Millom School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students. All applicants are subject to the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines. This will include checks with past employers and the need for the successful applicant to hold or undergo a suitable enhanced DBS disclosure.
Completed applications should be submitted via email to hr@millom.cumbria.sch.uk
The deadline for applications is 12.00noon on Thursday 15 May 2025
Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 19 May 2025
We are unable to provide Visa sponsorship for this post.
Please ensure that your application includes both a daytime and an evening telephone number where you can be contacted, and an email address.
If you have particular questions about the post, we will be happy to answer them for you. Please contact the Headteacher’s PA, Sheila Minter, on stminters@millom.cumbria.sch.uk who will be pleased to help you.
What the school offers its staff
Please see the school website: https://millom.cumbria.sch.uk/
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Millom School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students. All applicants are subject to the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines. This will include checks with past employers and the need for the successful applicant to hold or undergo a suitable enhanced DBS disclosure.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Millom School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 469 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Millom School website
- Email address
- hr@millom.cumbria.sch.uk
Millom School is a small 11-18 community school and an established sixth form. We regard ourselves as a learning community and understand the importance of investing in our colleagues as well as our students. The school plays a central role in the local community.
Our priorities for this year are: Ready to Learn – Every Lesson Counts, Widen Opportunity, Better Learner – Improving Academic Outcomes.
We provide a friendly, supportive, and structured environment, in which students are given every opportunity to flourish. We have a commitment to professional development for staff and a culture of change and improvement with strong support from senior leadership and the governing body. We are proud of our school, our staff, and our students, and are ambitious for the future. In the immediate locality Millom School plays a key role in the Partnership of Millom Schools, working closely with our feeder primary schools to ensure a positive transition for our students.
OFSTED have recognised our broad and ambitious curriculum which is well planned and innovative and with a degree of personalised learning. In Key Stage 4 the school has introduced a number of alternative courses and accreditations in conjunction with GCSEs. These are presented to the students as 14-19 courses and they offer automatic progression to A Level or Level 3 vocational courses. The Post-16 curriculum includes a range of A-level and BTEC subjects.
Outcomes for learners have risen significantly in recent years. The school was last inspected in May 2022 and was judged to be “Good”. Ofsted confirmed what we already knew - that we have high expectations of all of our students, that we have ambition for all of our students and that students are well prepared to take the next steps in their lives when they leave us. The full report is available on Ofsted’s or the school’s web site.
We are not complacent and continually look for innovative ways to improve the school for students and staff. One example of this is the enrichment programme. This involves all students taking part in extra-curricular activities, both on site and off site, on Wednesday afternoons and they change activity every half term. We believe that, following the disruption to education caused by the pandemic, students need to have equality of access to extra-curricular activities. Students experience these in mixed age groups which is designed to bring the school community together. Staff have planned a six-week programme focussing on the development of soft skills and the attributes of the Millom Learner.
Student Support
The student support team’s brief is to focus on the pastoral aspects of students’ experiences at school, by assisting students who have difficulties in lessons, either with learning or behaviour. They listen and provide advice and support and work alongside parents and a range of other outside agencies.
Governance
The school has a large and active governing body. The governing body includes parents, local councillors, business people and residents from Millom and the surrounding area. Senior students and members of the senior leadership team are associate governors.
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