Teacher of Science
Budehaven Community School, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 8DQThis job expired on 22 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
22 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 March 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: 1.00FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
the successful applicant will:
- Be an innovative and inspiring practitioner, always going above and beyond to help students achieve
- Be ambitious for yourself, your students and colleagues
- Be passionate about Science
- Have excellent subject and specialist knowledge
- Have a proven ability to develop positive relationships
- Achieve excellent outcomes for all student groups, and ensure Disadvantaged pupils achieve as well as non-Disadvantaged pupils in your classes.
- Have a positive outlook willing to seek out solutions
Qualification Criteria
- Qualified to degree level and above in a subject relevant to the role
- QTS
Experience
- Experience of teaching Science to a range of abilities & ages (this may be from your training if an ECT)
- Experience of developing resources to support the curriculum and effective learning in the classroom
- Experience of reflecting on and improving teaching practice to impact teaching and student achievement
Knowledge
- Deep understanding of the importance of curriculum - intent, implementation and impact of the Science curriculum, sequencing of the curriculum and how it fits together.
- Understanding of the OFSTED Framework and what constitutes effective teaching and learning, curriculum implementation and impact.
- Excellent knowledge of the National Curriculum
- Knowledge of the latest educational research, findings and best practices
- Understanding of the strategies needed to establish consistently high aspirations and standards of results and behaviour
Teaching and Learning
- Excellent classroom practitioner – ensures that their own classroom practice models best practice
- Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and reward
- Good communication, planning and organisational skills
- Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
- Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every pupil
- Acts as a role model to staff and pupils
- Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice.
- Vision aligned with our culture and ethos of high aspirations, expectations of self and others, based on care, with the aim of achieving success for all
- Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
- Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
What the school offers its staff
Commitment to safeguarding
At Budehaven we are committed to safeguarding; the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Budehaven Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1161 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Budehaven Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01288 353271
Budehaven Community School is located on the beautiful north Cornwall coast in the town of Bude. We are proud to be a fully comprehensive school, welcoming and providing an inclusive education to students from ages 11 to 19. Our school also benefits from a thriving, successful Sixth Form, an on-site Area Resource Base and The Haven – our integrated Health and Wellbeing Centre, providing wider support for our students and members of the community.
Budehaven Community School is a thriving environment to be part of, and our ethos, which is built on a foundation of Care, Enjoyment and Opportunities, building Responsibility, Confidence and Success, is tangible from the second you walk through the door. As you travel around our school, the energy of the students and staff is infectious. The stunning work of our talented young people is on display around the school, and their artwork is one of our jewels in the Budehaven crown within our stylish Bistro Art Gallery, aside that of local artists for all to appreciate. We have an annual art exhibition, where members of the community come and admire the work of our young people.
Arranging a visit to Budehaven Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk.
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