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  • Closing date

    19 June 2023 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    12 May 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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Working pattern

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

Bursary Available

Trainee Teacher - Maths job summary

Are you considering a career as a Maths Teacher?

Would you like train on the job at Nova Hreod Academy and receive a tax-free bursary during your training year?

  • Don’t miss the opportunity to complete your PGCE at the top school for progress at GCSE in in Swindon
  • Close to the beautiful Cotswolds and within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Oxford and Gloucester

This post attracts a bursary of £27,000. You can also apply for a maintenance loan to help with living costs. To check eligibility criteria, please visit the Get Into Teaching website.

Nova Hreod Academy is part of United Learning - the biggest Multi-Academy Trust in the UK. United Teaching is our Initial Teacher Training scheme. We can offer you more than any single school. Training while you teach, you will learn from the best and share our expertise nationwide. With support from mentors and tutors across the Group, it all adds up to the best start for our children, and your career. Because here, teacher training is a path to senior leadership roles across the country.

United Teaching National SCITT is a bespoke teacher training course, run in partnership with a top university, who award the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). The course starts with a two-week ‘summer school’ in August. You will spend your academic year at Swindon Academy or Nova Hreod with additional training one afternoon each week at the lead school. You will complete a second placement at the partner Cluster School and attend up to three ‘conferences’. Assessment will continue throughout the course, based on your classroom experience and achievement measured against Teaching Standards, while your academic study will comprise of two academic assignments.

We are looking for candidates who:

  • Are passionate about their subject
  • Have been awarded or are on track to achieve a 2:1 Degree. (Negotiable in exceptional cases)
  • Have experience working with children (not essential)
  • Are committed to working as part of a team
  • Are highly organised
  • Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Please note that if you have qualifications from outside the UK, you’ll need to show that they’re the same standard as UK GCSEs and a UK bachelor’s degree. You can get a statement of comparability from UK ENIC to show the standard of your qualifications.

We offer:

  • Unique and inspirational environments to work in
  • School buildings that are only 15 years old with beautiful school grounds
  • Professional and collaborative schools with a commitment to continued professional development
  • Enthusiastic and well-behaved children with a love of learning
  • The opportunity to join a strong staff team, where our values are integral to all we do
  • A happy place to work!

This in an outstanding opportunity to complete your training at a successful, and rapidly improving academy. We are driven by a forward-thinking philosophy and a vibrant, positive culture. In a friendly and welcoming school with supportive colleagues, you'll be able to make a real impact on our academy, and on the lives of our children.

Why choose us

We can offer you a school where we are proud to teach a knowledge-rich curriculum and you will receive excellent CPD to develop your subject pedagogy and classroom management. You will have access to collaboratively planned schemes of work and lesson resources. We guarantee disruption free learning in EVERY lesson. We have a highly supportive and hands-on SLT who take responsibility for creating a calm and respectful ethos.

We have a dedicated team of non-teaching pastoral and SEN staff work with SLT and teachers to support pupils and this enables us to have a 98% record of homework completion with centralised detentions for non-completion. We also have an amazing varied extra-curricular programme which helps our students grow and develop into rounded individuals.

After a visit from Ofsted in November 2022, the academy received a second ‘Good’ judgement in a row.

If you are looking for the next step in your career, and would like to find out more, please email Nick Wells (Headteacher) on n.wells@novahreodacademy.org.uk. He will arrange a visit or an informal call to talk about the role.

Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.

Due to the high volume of applications received, the School is unable to provide individual feedback on why an application is unsuccessful. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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.

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About Nova Hreod Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
985 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

School location

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