Teacher of English
Oaklands School
Tower Hamlets
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS (Inner London Scale)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 16 April 2024
Job overview
Teacher of English
Required from September 2024
Fixed Term for 1 year
Salary Range: MPS/UPS (Inner London Scale)
Oaklands English department has a strong track record for developing staff, their teaching, and achieving outstanding outcomes in a supportive environment. We are proud to have good staff retention: the majority of the team have been at the school for over six years, and everyone has been here for at least three.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team which aims to inspire, motivate and challenge every student at all levels. We teach a collaboratively-planned, diverse and challenging curriculum which builds our students’ powers of analysis, communication and empathy.
We are proud to inspire our students through a diverse staff body and particularly welcome applications from all of the communities we serve. If you have the experience and passion to energise Tower Hamlets’ next generation of leaders, creators and innovators, then we want to support you in that pursuit. There are also significant opportunities for progression within the school.
The school is a high-performing comprehensive. In 2023, we achieved a 0.41 progress score. English Literature is taught at Key Stage 5 and is a popular subject in our sixth form. A Level English Literature has been 100% A*-C from 2019 to 2023.
Benefits we offer:
- A supportive, enthusiastic and experienced department
- Coaching programme to support professional development
- Workload-friendly assessment policy
- Centralised, collaboratively-planned teaching resources available to support with reducing the teacher’s workload
- CPD tailored to the need of individuals to support them if they wish to develop further in their careers by taking on additional responsibilities
- A thriving sixth form in a separate building
- Great location with Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath and Whitechapel stations nearby
Oaklands is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all posts from appropriately qualified persons regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be DBS checked.
Further details and an application pack can be found on our website at https://www.oaklands.towerhamlets.sch.uk/Current-vacancies/
Please return a completed application to hr@oaklandsschool.com.
Closing date for applications: 9am Tuesday 16th April 2024
Interviews: Wednesday 24th April 2024
Attached documents
About Oaklands School
- Oaklands School
- Old Bethnal Green Road
- London
- E2 6PR
- United Kingdom
Oaklands is a mixed, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school with sixth form situated in East London. It is a community state school as well as a NSS (National Support School] that provides support to other schools. A smaller than average secondary school, it will provide 850 places for secondary and sixth form students between the ages of 11-18, when fully subscribed.
With over 20 years’ worth of educational success, Oaklands has been a specialist school for science since 2003 and became a specialist modern foreign language school in 2008.
Headteacher
Simon Ramsay
Vision
Oaklands School is proud of our learners and they achieve results well above the national average, taking part in a range of extra-curricular activities to develop their sense of self-worth, respect and confidence. Oaklands is committed to serving the local community and being active citizens to the wider international community.
We are:
- innovative and creative, caring and respectful, and work in partnership
- confident in our aspirations and ability to achieve
- contribute positively to our diverse world
- on our learning journey
. . . that knows no barriers
Ofsted
"This is a school whose ethos is truly reflected in the pupils –they work hard, show kindness to all and take up opportunities to broaden their experiences."
- Ofsted Report 2022
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