8 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    1 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    23 May 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subjects

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science

Working pattern

Full time (Can be done as a job share): 32.5 hour worked Monday - Friday 52.143 week contract Term time only on site teaching

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS1 - UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualified Teacher Status.

Relevant degree or equivalent level

Evidence of continuing professional development

An outstanding classroom practitioner

Awareness and or involvement with ITT/appropriate CPD

Able to identify strengths and weaknesses in students and act appropriately

Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills

Excellent communicator – sensitive & effective

An ability to establish good working relationships with a wide range of people including students, parents, governors and colleagues

Knowledge of strategies to inspire and improve outcomes for students

The knowledge and vision to put strategies into practice to meet current and future challenges

Outstanding organisational skills to ensure efficient and effective operation

Confidence and experience in the use of ICT for learning, teaching and admin

Excellent logistic and organisational skills

What the school offers its staff

Why join Five Acres High School and Greenshaw Learning Trust?

At Five Acres High School, we have built our ethos on a strong set of core values which underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to give students at Five Acres abetter chance of successthan if they attended any other school in the country.

Ambition, excellence and pride run through all aspects of school life.

Our school maintains high expectations, with a strong focus on staff development and strong behavioural expectations and routines embedded within the school. This allows teachers to focus on planning and delivering excellent lessons which enable all students to make progress and feel successful. Our school is focused on enabling students to develop into well-rounded young adults who are instilled with the school’s core values of ambition, determination, respect, creativity and confidence. We are able to achieve this through our Character Education programme as well as our embedded practices such as our reading programme and knowledge rich curriculum.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.

To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job’s portal.

We offer our staff a range of benefits including:

  • Professional development and career progression
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Blue Light Card
  • Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
  • An Employee Assistance Programme
  • Gym Discounts
  • Free eye tests
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Green car scheme
  • Being part of a great team and expanding organisation

Commitment to safeguarding

Five Acres High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Applying for the job

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Additional documents

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About Five Acres High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
787 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

Five Acres High School is one of the top 3.5% of schools nationally for progress and recently rated ‘Good’ by OFSTED Our world class school quality mark and school of character kitemark plus show this. This is a school that will give you an opportunity to demonstrate you are remarkable. Our values are ambition, confidence, creativity, determination and respect and we pride ourselves on ensuring students work towards our mission which is to encourage students to ‘Aim High, Work Hard and Be Kind’.

We are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character.

The Trust is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers, support staff and learners committed to educating the ‘whole child’ to improve life chances, whilst securing the best possible outcomes for students. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.

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