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  • Job start date

    1 September 2022

  • Closing date

    31 January 2022 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    14 January 2022

Job details

Job role

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Subject

Physics

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday Full-time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

NQT/MPS/UPS

Teacher of Physics job summary

Teacher of Physics Full time, Permanent NQT / MPS / UPS We are seeking to appoint an outstanding, highly motivated, enthusiastic and innovative Teacher of Physics to join our growing, dynamic and supportive school. We are looking for someone who is committed to securing high standards and raising academic attainment. Here at Horsforth School, we aim to create opportunities and support achievement for our students and colleagues alike. We are an extremely supportive staff, where collaborative planning is encouraged in a vibrant staff workroom. As a department, workload is at the heart of our priorities, and to this end we support staff with a fully resourced KS4 scheme of work, with assessment and feedback opportunities that are clear and manageable. Evidence based practice is important to us, and as a department we seek to embed Rosenshine's 10 principles throughout our teaching and schemes. We want to allow new staff to explore and develop their teaching style and further their subject knowledge. To support this further we have a dedicated physics lab technician to support with practical elements of the curriculum. Physics at Key stage 5 is an extremely healthy, and high achieving, subject. We regularly fill 2 classes at AS and A2, where trips to the LHC and taking part in the British Physics Olympiad form part of our student experience. An exciting new build will be ready for September with 4 brand new fully stocked labs ready for teaching, making this a tremendously exciting time to be joining Horsforth school. Success is seen throughout our ambitious and consistently oversubscribed 11-19 school, which enjoys strong community and international links. Our commitment to excellence in education is recognised nationally. Ofsted describe us as a ‘good school with outstanding features’. For our 1500 students, Horsforth School provides an engaging environment of discovery and growth. For our colleagues too, this setting offers some great benefits. Located in north-west Leeds, the school is just five miles from the city centre with its thriving retail, leisure and cultural facilities, yet on the edge of open countryside. York, Harrogate and the Dales are within easy reach. If you’d like to find out more, please call 0113 226 5454. Or for full details and to apply, please visit www.horsforthschool.org or email recruitment@horsforthschool.org Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 31st January 2022 Start date: September 2022 We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all colleagues to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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 Horsforth School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1654 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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School website
Horsforth School website
Email address
recruitment@horsforthschool.org
Phone number
0113 226 5454
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For our 1600 students, Horsforth School provides an engaging environment of discovery and growth. For our colleagues too, this setting offers some great benefits. Located in North-West Leeds, the school is just five miles from the city centre with its thriving retail, leisure and cultural facilities, yet on the edge of open countryside. York, Harrogate and the Yorkshire Dales are within easy reach.

GCSE and A Level results are consistently well above the national averages and in 2022, 2023 and 2024 the school had the best state school A Level results in the whole of Leeds. Horsforth School was also named one of the top 10 schools in the North in The Sunday Times Power Guide in 2024 and the Yorkshire Post voted the Sixth Form at Horsforth one of the top 3 Sixth Forms in Yorkshire.

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