Trainee Teacher of Maths
Nova Hreod Academy, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 2NQ17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 8am
Date listed
6 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- Bursary Available of £29,000 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
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 Swindon
- Close to the beautiful Cotswolds and within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Oxford and Gloucester
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After a visit from Ofsted in November 2022, the academy received a second ‘Good’ judgement in a row.
This post attracts a bursary of £29,000. 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 to appoint someone who:
- is truly committed to making a difference to the life-chances of students
- has been awarded or are on track to achieve a 2:1 Degree (Negotiable in exceptional cases)
- is passionate about their subject
- is committed to working as part of a team
- is committed to continuous improvement
- can demonstrate excellent organisational and inter-personal skills and the ability to contribute to a team
- has experience working with children (not essential)
- 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.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- Support and training that will lead to qualified teacher status (QTS).
- Train to teach in disruption free classrooms, allowing you to focus on mastering the art of teaching.
- Access to a well-resourced Maths curriculum that includes detailed resources that will heavily structure/scaffold your lesson planning.
- Access to a dedicated mentor, with protected time each week, working closely with you as you develop as an effective classroom practitioner.
- Training both online and face-to-face with United Teaching, with protected time one day a week to support you with this training
- Access to regular, research based CPD opportunities that will allow you to build your knowledge of effective teaching & learning
- Bespoke learning walks, with incremental and specific feedback to support your continued improvement
- Support from our excellent behaviour and inclusion teams so you are equipped to support the individual needs of each student.
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.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Nova Hreod Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1037 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Nova Hreod Academy website
- Email address
- j.harding-mbogo@novahreodacademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01793528800
Nova Hreod Academy is well placed in an excellent Location, 1 hour from London, 30 minutes from Bath and 20 minutes to the beautiful Cotswolds. We are lucky enough to have a modern building that was designed with learning and development in mind.
We are committed to becoming one of the country's top-performing schools. At Nova we believe that all children have limitless potential and that all children can succeed when they are educated in an environment that is characterised by high standards of behaviour and excellent teaching. Our entire staff share a common goal: giving every child the best possible chance of success. We are determined to prove that students in Swindon can achieve at the very highest levels.
We deliver on our promise of the best chance of success by ensuring that:
Students gain high value qualifications which will open as many doors for them in the future as possible
Students develop a real understanding of subject disciplines, learning knowledge and ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understanding enabling them to better participate in our democratic society
Students get the opportunity to take part in many high-quality experiences – trips, visits, clubs and events which allow them to flourish outside the classroom, developing their character.
We place learning at the heart of everything that we do at Nova. Our expert teachers deliver a rich and ambitious academic curriculum in a calm, purposeful atmosphere. Our students work exceptional hard to develop a good understanding of the subject disciplines that we teach.
Beyond the classroom our house system, student leadership opportunities, and our enrichment programme, SuperNova, ensure that students have a wide range of opportunities to develop their character and to find and develop new passions, skills and interests.
At Nova every day we strive to create an atmosphere of joyful excellence where our students experience is characterised by both high standards and high levels of support. Where both fun and hard work are prioritised and where staff develop warm relationships with students whilst ensuring that standards of behaviour remain exemplary at all times.
Our values - Excellence, Hard Work and Kindness are at the heart of everything we do. The leadership team is dedicated not only to academic excellence and character development but also to ensuring that the workload for teachers is balanced, manageable, and well-considered.
How do we reduce workload for teachers?
High-quality, centralised curriculum resources
Live marking in lessons, so marking does not need to be taken home
A centralised behaviour management system
Visible and supportive senior leadership team (SLT)
Well-planned deadlines
These are just a few examples of how we’re making sure our teachers can focus on what matters most: delivering excellent lessons to our students.
Arranging a visit to Nova Hreod Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email j.harding-mbogo@novahreodacademy.org.uk.
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