Teacher of Physics - part time
Royal Alexandra and Albert School, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0TDThis job expired on 21 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
21 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33075.00 - £50471.00 FTE
Teacher of Physics - part time job summary
The Royal Alexandra and Albert School exists to give our children a distinctly different start in life, preparing them for the world with hope, optimism, compassion and empathy.
We are a co-educational, non-selective state boarding school, for boys and girls aged 7 - 18,. This is a boarding school with Flexi Boarding students attending from the local area and a lively community of around 400 Full Boarders, passionately involved in a wide range of after-school and weekend activities and trips.
Our Ofsted inspection of March 2024 states ”pupils are happy and well cared for at Royal Alexandra and Albert School. They benefit from positive relationships with staff across the school. Pupils feel safe, confident that if they report any concerns or worries they will be dealt with”.
We offer:
- Professional, supportive and committed staff team
- Beautiful estate set in 260 acres of parkland
- Convenient location, close to the A23 and M25
- Free on-site parking
We are looking for an exceptional Teacher of Physics for 2-3 days per week who can provide highly effective and innovative teaching of Physics in the senior school, to ensure that all our students make excellent progress and inspire students to have a passion for the subject. Applications from ECTs are welcomed.
The Science department is one of the largest in the school, with 7 fully equipped laboratories; 2 Science Preparatory Rooms, Staff workroom and Faculty office. There is a very good ethos of cooperative and supportive working as part of a team and there is excellent organisation between teaching and support staff.
In Science, students achieve high outcomes at GCSE & A level. At GCSE students achieve results higher than the national average in 9-7, 9-4 and 9-1, with over 80% 9-7 in Separate science and 75% 9-4 in Combined Science. At A level typically students achieve 100% achieve A*- E. In an Ofsted report the department was commended on ‘knowing just what they want students to learn and in what order’ with subject teachers ‘explaining subject matter and checking students’ understanding well’.
The school’s approach to GCSE leads to a large uptake in the 6th form. There are classes for Biology, Chemistry and Physics in both the Year 12 and Year 13 and we have introduced Environmental Science this year. We have a good number of students going on to study STEM related degrees.
The successful candidate will be:
• Passionate about the teaching of Physics
• An excellent practitioner
• Enthusiastic about his/her own professional development
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement
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.
About Royal Alexandra and Albert School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1055 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Royal Alexandra and Albert School website
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