Teacher of PE & Science
Tor Bridge High, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8UN9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Biology, Chemistry, Physical education, Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Planning, Teaching & Classroom Management
Teach allocated students by planning their teaching to achieve progression of learning through:
- Identifying clear learning and lesson outcomes and specifying how they will be taught and assessed.
- Setting tasks which challenge students and ensure high levels of interest and engagement.
- Setting appropriate and demanding expectations.
- Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment.
- Being aware of and make provision for students who are SEND, more able, PPI or who have other particular individual needs.
- Providing clear structures that are in line with TBH Teaching Principles for lessons, and maintain pace, motivation, and challenge for learners.
- The effective use of assessment to ensure coverage of programme of study.
- Effective teaching and best use of available time and resources.
- Maintaining Behaviour for Learning policies and procedures, and encouraging good practice regarding punctuality, behaviour, standards of work, rewards, and home learning.
Using a variety of teaching methods to:
- Match approach to content, structure information, present a set of key ideas and use appropriate vocabulary.
- Use effective questioning, listen carefully to students, give attention to errors and misconceptions.
- Select appropriate learning resources and develop study skills through library, ICT, and other sources.
- Ensuring students acquire and consolidate knowledge, skills, vocabulary and understanding appropriate to the subject taught.
- Evaluating own teaching critically fully engaging with the DDI process to improve effectiveness.
- Ensuring the effective and efficient deployment of classroom support.
- Liaising with the Curriculum Leader/Head of School to ensure the implementation of department policy and practice.
Monitoring, Assessment, Recording & Reporting
- To assess how well learning outcomes have been achieved and use them to improve specific aspects of teaching.
- To assess and monitor students’ work and set targets for progress.
- To assess and record students’ progress systematically and keep records to check work is understood and completed, monitor strengths and areas for development, inform planning, and recognise the level at which the student is achieving.
- To undertake assessment of students as requested by examination bodies, departmental and school procedures.
- To contribute to the preparation and presentation of informative reports to parents/carers.
- To undertake assessment of students and participate in the school’s system reporting to parents/carers.
School Tutor Duties:
- To be a Tutor to an assigned group of students, to undertake daily learning checks and daily Guided Reading.
- To promote the general progress and wellbeing of individual students and of the Tutor Group as a whole.
- To liaise with the Heads of Year to ensure the implementation of the school’s system.
- To register students, accompany them to assemblies, encourage their full attendance at all lessons and their participation in other aspects of school life.
- To alert appropriate staff to problems experienced by students and make recommendations as to how these may be resolved.
- To communicate, as appropriate, with parents of students and persons or bodies outside the school concerned with the welfare of individual students, after consultation with appropriate staff.
Other Professional Requirements:
- To promote inclusion and equality of opportunity for all students.
- To share in the corporate responsibility for, and commitment to, the safeguarding and promotion of wellbeing and discipline of all students.
- To have a working knowledge of teachers’ professional duties and legal liabilities.
- To operate at all times within the stated policies and practices of the school.
- To engage with the Tor Bridge High DDI and incremental coaching programme for teachers.
- To take account of wider curriculum developments, in school and nationally.
- To establish effective working relationships and set a good example through their presentation, and personal and professional conduct.
- To endeavour to give every child the opportunity to reach their potential and meet high expectations.
- To co-operate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the students, school, and department.
- To contribute to the corporate life of the school through effective participation in meetings and management systems necessary to co-ordinate the management of the school.
- To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings, Parents’ Evenings, Academic Mentoring days and events with partner schools.
What the school offers its staff
Do you show COURAGE in every action you choose?
Do you LOVE inspiring people?
Are you AMBITIOUS about your career?
If YES, Team Tor Bridge is the place for you!
Here at Tor Bridge High our staff and students are driven each and everyday by our mission of making the world a better place
To achieve this we insist on:
Relationships & Culture
- Always people first
- Connections
- Belonging
Worklife balance
- Centralised curriculum
- Enrichment activities
- Teacher friendly assessment
Growing Great People
- 1-1 coaching
- Trust Wide CPD Offer
- Powerful Networks
Passion & Energy
- Love coming to work
- Celebrate achievements
- Spread joy
Are you ready to transform lives, to join an outstanding team and be the very best teacher? Your journey starts here.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Tor Bridge High
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1171 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tor Bridge High website
- Email address
- bgeorgiev@torbridge.net
- Phone number
- 01752207872
Our school is a well-established secondary school and sixth form, which caters for up to 1,200 pupils and has been oversubscribed for the past 7 years.
We are on a journey of school improvement with a relentless focus on high expectations with an aim to improve outcomes for all our students. This was reflected in our 2019 Year 11 results where we saw an overall increase in students’ progress - a reflection of the dedication of our staff for continued school improvement.
Arranging a visit to Tor Bridge High
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bgeorgiev@torbridge.net.
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