Teacher of Science
Wyvern St Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 1RE10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 May 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: 1.0 FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPR - UPR. Recruitment/Relocation allowances available for an outstanding candidate
What skills and experience we're looking for
We require a Teacher of Science to join our team from 1st September 2024.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced and outstanding classroom practitioner with a track record of strong outcomes. This could also be an ideal opportunity for an exceptional Early Careers Teacher.
What the school offers its staff
At WSE, we are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional teacher-led, interactive approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge, ‘the best that has been thought and said,’ and providing a compelling aspiration-raising ethos. Our approach is greatly influenced by Doug Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion,’ Rosenshine’s principles, and recent developments in cognitive science. We have a consistent, routinised, collective philosophy around teaching and learning and aim to create a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful, ensuring impeccable behaviour so that teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning.
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, enabling them to learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of their background, prior attainment, or needs. We do not lower expectations due to a child’s background or home life; instead, we redouble our efforts to help them overcome barriers and flourish.
We value our staff highly and take workload seriously. Our systems are designed to be high leverage, allowing you to focus on your core purpose – teaching – in a sustainable way, free from bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
What We Offer:
- Extensive support and progression opportunities
- A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- Excellent support from the MLP team
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
- Highly visible and supportive senior leaders
- Centralised detentions
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing supportive feedback
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
Wyvern St Edmund's are relentlessly focused on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of it's children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wyvern St Edmund's
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1331 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wyvern St Edmund's website
- Email address
- hr@wyvernsteds.org
- Phone number
- 01722 328565
Wyvern St Edmund's (WSE) is situated on the eastern outskirts of Salisbury with beautiful views over the Laverstock Downs to the east and Salisbury Cathedral to the southwest. WSE is a founding member of Magna Learning Partnership.
In September 2022 we legally opened as Wyvern St Edmund's Academy, enabling us to take full advantage of the benefits associated with inclusive coeducational learning and social development. Wyvern College and St Edmund's Girls' School were formally two separate schools, just a few yards apart. Over the past 15 years the schools have worked closely together, sharing expertise and staffing resources.
Facilities and teachers are now fully and legally merged to create a large, mixed, setting of approximately 1350 students. We currently have a 'Good' OFSTED rating. Our collective vision of helping each student to develop into the best version of themselves is at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to provide impactful teaching, comprehensive pastoral care and extensive extra-curricular provision. Moreover, our vision is rooted in Christian beliefs and values whereby we expect our students to use their developing gifts, talents and character to serve others in the local community and beyond (1 Peter 4:10).
We have high expectations of student attainment and similarly we expect much from our staff. We are aiming for outstanding provision in all areas and this appointment is a key factor in ensuring that we achieve that ambition.
Our students are delightful; they embrace learning opportunities and respond well to challenge. They appreciate the very positive working relationships they have with their teachers and other staff who support them. In turn, our staff go the extra mile to help students achieve beyond expectations. Our reputation in the local community is soundly based upon the value we add to our students from the point at which they join us until their departure for sixth forms and colleges in the local area.
We have a close and positive relationship with Salisbury Sixth From College (S6C) which is a short drive away from WSE. Our partnership with the college means that there are opportunities to work collaboratively with KS5 students and teachers – we also anticipate the possibility of some WSE staff teaching across KS3-5 in the future.
Arranging a visit to Wyvern St Edmund's
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@wyvernsteds.org.
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