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Teacher of Science
King Edward VI King's Norton School for Boys, Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 1DYThis job expired on 2 April 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
01/09/2025
Closing date
2 April 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
14 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS 3
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a Teacher of Science to join our Science Department from 1 September 2025. This is a great opportunity for a passionate educator to deliver excellence in the classroom and inspire students through innovative lessons.This post would be an ideal opportunity for an early career teacher (ECT) to develop their practice, within a supportive and evolving team.
Contract type:Permanent Full Time Teaching
Start Date:September 2025
What the school offers its staff
Would you like to work in a school that invests in developing and growing its staff?Are you a Science teacher who wants to make a difference and help students achieve their potential? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen at King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated, organised, and confident Teacher of Science to join our team. We are looking for someone who loves their subject and can communicate and share that passion with their students, colleagues, and the wider community. The successful candidate must have a strong desire to continuously develop and improve their teaching practice and have the highest expectations for our boys.Our academic results are impressive and are consistently above the National Average and well above the National average for boys.We are pleased with progress our boys make.
The ideal candidate willhave up-to-date knowledge and understanding of current developments in the teaching and learning of Science to all students. They will have strong communication skills along with the enthusiasm needed to inspire the students they teach and their colleagues in the department.They will be open, honest and reflective with a thirst to improve and develop their practice and pedagogy.
At King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys, we are proud of our journey, and, with over 100 years of history, our school has many great traditions that live on in our ethos today. We maintain the best of these traditions and enhance them with the latest educational practice; this provides us with a blend of traditional values with a forward-looking approach to learning.
We are part of theKing Edward VI Multi Academy Trust, which is a diverse family of schools serving Birmingham. The trust supports the school in our shared aim and values; to make Birmingham the best place to be educated.To achieve this, it is essential that we add value, academically, personally and culturally to our student’s journey. We are proud of our curriculum, teaching, learning and the results they enable our students to achieve. We are proud of our students and the way they develop as individuals through their interactions and experiences. We are proud of the range of opportunities that we offer which take our students out of their comfort zone and help them to build character, self-worth and resilience.
Aspiration is essential to all of this; it is the key to continually striving for improvement. Our motto is:“Humani Semper Contendimus”.– ‘we humans are always striving’.It drives us in providing the highest quality, well-rounded education for the boys we serve.
Applicants should complete the school’s application form and submit with a supporting letter maximum of two sides of A4 and return torecruitment@knbs.co.uk.Please do not delay in sending in your application as applications will be considered as they arrive.We do not intend to consider any application that arrives after 4pm on Wednesday 2nd February 2025, final shortlisting of applications will take place at this time and Interviews will be carried out Thursday 10th April 2025.
If you’d like a tour of the school or an informal conversation witha member of our team, please contact us on 0121 628 0010 or emailrecruitment@knbs.co.ukand we will happily oblige.
King Edward VI King’s Norton school for boys is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. For short-listed candidates an online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About King Edward VI King's Norton School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 812 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King Edward VI King's Norton School for Boys website
- Email address
- recruitment@knbs.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0121 628 0010
At King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys, we are proud of our journey and, with over 100 years of history, our school has many great traditions that live on in our ethos today. We maintain the best of these traditions and enhance them with the latest educational practice; this provides us with a blend of traditional values with a forward-looking approach to learning.
We are part of the King Edward VI Multi Academy Trust, which is a diverse family of schools serving Birmingham. The trust supports the school in our shared aim and values; to make Birmingham the best place to be educated.
To achieve this it is essential that we add value, academically, personally and culturally to our students journey. We are proud of our curriculum, teaching, learning and the results they enable our students to achieve. We are proud of our students and the way they develop as individuals through their interactions and experiences. We are proud of the range of opportunities that we offer which take our students out of their comfort zone and help them to build character, self-worth and resilience.
Aspiration is essential to all of this; it is the key to continually striving for improvement. Our motto is:
“Humani Semper Contendimus”. – ‘we humans are always striving’
It drives us in providing the highest quality, well-rounded education for the boys we serve.
Arranging a visit to King Edward VI King's Norton School for Boys
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@knbs.co.uk.
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