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Teacher of Sociology
Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8RBThis job expired on 11 March 2022
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
11 March 2022 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 January 2022
Job details
Job role
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Sociology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - One year
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main scale 1-6 or UPS 1-3
Teacher of Sociology job summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a committed, hardworking and passionate teacher of Sociology in this 11-18 mixed comprehensive school. This is a fixed term full-time post for one year, to begin in September 2022.
Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School is a very successful comprehensive school set in beautiful surroundings with excellent results at GCSE and A level. We are also in the initial stages of an exciting new building project. The school is within easy commuting distance of Bristol and Gloucester.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach Sociology at Key Stage 4 and 5, with the department currently following the WJEC board at GCSE and OCR at A Level.
Further information about the school and department is available on our website. The closing date for applications is Friday 11th March 2022.
Application forms and further details are available from the school or for download from the Job Vacancies link on the school’s website.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to satisfactory full enhanced DBS and barred list, prohibition order, identity and qualifications checks.
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About Katharine Lady Berkeley's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1528 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- dpavey@klbschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01453842227
The School was founded by Katharine, wife of Thomas, Lord Berkeley in 1384 on October 20th. The Foundation Deed reads:-
"We the said Kitherina (Katharine), attentively considering that the purposes of man desiring to be informed in grammar which is the foundation of all liberal arts, is daily defeated and frustrated by poverty and want of means; therefore for the maintenance and exaltation of Holy Mother Church, and the increase of divine worship, and other liberal arts and sciences, out of the goods bestowed on us by God have procured the said Walter and Williams to acquire certain lands and tenements in fee, that they may build (re-build?) a school-house in Wotton for the habitation and likewise dispose of them for the maintenance of a master and 2 poor scholars of the art of grammar; which master and his successors shall govern and inform all scholars coming to the same house or school coming for instruction in this art without taking anything for his trouble from them or any of them."
The Deed was sealed with Katharine's personal seal which showed St John holding a lamb and has the Latin inscription "Sigilla domus scolari de Woton sub ege". (The seal of the School House of Wotton-under-Edge). This seal is stamped on our prizes and also in special badges which are worn by some members of the school. The crest on the blazers is the Berkeley coat-of-arms.
The old school buildings in School Lane, Wotton-under-Edge, were erected in 1726 to which there were various additions later. Shortly after the school had become co-educational, Church Mill was bought in 1908. After the World War of 1939 -1945, Carlton House was rented from the Post Office.
In 1961, the erection of a new building for 350 students in the Kingswood Road, was started, and in January 1963 the school vacated the premises in Wotton and moved into the new buildings.
The erection of the first phase of extensions to the Kingswood Road buildings began in March 1972, and were completed for the start of the Autumn Term 1973, when Katharine Lady Berkeley's re-opened as a comprehensive school for 830 students following the closure of Wotton Secondary School at the end of August 1973.
In July 1974, the second phase of extensions to the building were started and were completed by September 1975.
Since that time, there has been a range of new buildings and extensions in order to accommodate the increasing number of students which is now over 1,450 – very different from the school roll 630 years ago.
Since becoming a comprehensive school in 1973 there have been many curricular developments including becoming a specialist school for languages in 1996. Even though the additional funding provided for specialist schools has been withdrawn since 2010, we still have a rich languages provision which provides outstanding opportunities for our students to gain skills in foreign languages, to take part in visits overseas and to gain an appreciation of the cultures of other countries.
In 2011, the school converted to become an Academy. This means that the school continues to be state funded but it is independent from the local authority - the school is effectively a state funded independent school. This provides certain freedoms including, most importantly, the opportunity to purchase services which best match the needs of our particular students.
Almost all secondary schools in Gloucestershire have converted to Academy status but the relationship with the Local Authority and the sense of community and partnership between the schools, whether Academy or not, continues to be strong.
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