Teacher of Science
Priestnall School, Stockport, Cheshire, SK4 3HPThis job expired on 5 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
5 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 April 2025
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS: £31,650 - £49,084
What skills and experience we're looking for
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work.”-Thomas Edison
The Laurus Trust are currently looking for a dedicated Teacher of Science who can contribute to our commitment to providing exceptional teaching and learning experiences. We are searching for an individual who possesses a genuine enthusiasm for teaching Science, both within the classroom and beyond. This post is suitable for both experienced teachers or newly qualified teachers. This role will be based at one of our Schools within Stockport, Manchester or Tameside.
Our students will have a comprehensive knowledge and a deep understanding of the key principles and theory that are required to succeed in science at each key stage and to lay the foundations for further study. We offer a broad and deep curriculum that focuses on powerful knowledge and threshold concepts as we believe that mastery of threshold concepts is integral to students accessing powerful knowledge and gaining a deep understanding and appreciation of science. Our curriculum is ambitious and challenging, providing students with strong substantive knowledge whilst also gaining an awareness of the disciplinary knowledge of the subject. Students will develop their literacy and numeracy skills and build their cultural capital. Our students will develop their passion and enthusiasm for science through science lessons and our electives program.
What the school offers its staff
Across our Trust we believe that all students and pupils, regardless of background or circumstance, have the right to a high-quality academic education. All of our schools are Unashamedly Academic and behaviour in our schools is exemplary.
The Laurus Trust is continually growing, our family of schools now includes five primary Schools, six high Schools, and four Sixth Forms. In September 2024, the Trust opened Crown Street Primary School – the first new primary school to be built in Manchester City Centre in over twenty years and Laurus Grace, a small school catering for secondary students with significant social, emotional and mental health needs.
At all schools across the Trust we place great importance on our core purpose of teaching and learning, and on supporting students and pupils in developing the knowledge, attitudes, skills and habits which will enable them to flourish and succeed.
We welcome interest from forward-thinking, motivated and hard-working individuals who wish to share in our success. In return, we will provide excellent benefits, a welcoming and positive working environment and genuine opportunities for continuous progression.
Linda Magrath OBE -CEO
Flexible working opportunities
To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. The Laurus Trust recognises the importance of employees' work/life balance. A better work-life balance can increase staff motivation, reduce employee stress, improve performance and productivity and make employment more accessible for more people. Where it is possible and practical, we will accommodate flexible arrangements from day 1, which may involve job sharing, part-time working, bespoke timetabling or a nine-day fortnight.
Further information about the job
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 Priestnall School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1272 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Priestnall School website
- Email address
- recruitment@laurustrust.co.uk
Priestnall is situated in Heaton Mersey, a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, bordering the Manchester Local Authority – notably, Burnage. The school serves the communities of the ‘Four Heatons’: Mersey, Chapel, Moor and Norris. Priestnall is a non-selective, non-denominational, ten form entry 11-16 secondary school, there are approximately 1278 students roll. The school is part of the Laurus Trust (September 2023), a multi-academy trust, whose shared vision provides the framework and core values for our secondary schools.
The Class of 2024 have secured themselves the best GCSE grades the school has ever seen. Almost 40% of all grades awarded are at Grade 7 or above – a fabulous achievement – and an incredible 75% of grades are at Grade 5 or above. In both GCSE English and Maths, a superb 64% of grades are Grade 5+, and a mighty 81% are at Grade 4+.
Priestnall is very much a part of the wider community and the partnership between students, staff and parents/carers is vital to the continued success of the school. We endeavour to provide students with the best possible opportunities to succeed and develop a love of learning that will last and that will support them as they take their next steps in life.
We have high expectations of all members of our school community, and we provide opportunities for students to engage with the wider life of the school and, importantly, to develop the qualities, attitudes and habits which will allow them to flourish. At Priestnall School, we place the professional development of staff at the very core of what we do.
Providing high quality learning opportunities – and removing any barriers – is at the centre of what we want to achieve for our students, and we remain committed to ensuring all our students can get the very best out of their time at Priestnall School.
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