Design & Technology Teacher
George Green's School
Tower Hamlets
- Expired
- Salary:
- Inner London Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September start or July for an NQTs
- Apply by:
- 26 May 2020
Job overview
We are seeking an ambitious and highly dedicated Design & Technology Teacher with a real passion for learning and teaching, to join our successful Design & Technology Department.
We are deeply proud of the improvements our school continues to make, particularly in relation to student achievement. Our results have been steadily good, with 2019 coming in as a bumper year. Our attainment is the best it has ever been and our Progress 8 score is excellent – these results having been achieved through effective quality first teaching, carefully planned intervention and sheer hard work.
A career at George Green’s School offers a rewarding future, with the opportunity to make a real change to the lives and outcomes of our young people. We understand the importance of providing a supportive and nurturing workplace for our staff. Our ethos is that a happy staff will deliver the best possible experience to our students. As such, we offer a portfolio of benefits designed to enhance and support the working lives of our staff. These include, but are not limited to:
Investing in you
• A highly effective CPL programme, including dedicated weekly training sessions and opportunities for external training (e.g. NPQML and NPQSL)
• Early paid start from July for NQTs
• Large A Level cohort
• Free parking
• Free yoga classes
• Free breakfast, tea and coffee daily
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech Scheme
• Staff wellbeing programme, including in-house counselling
• A strong, supportive teaching culture
• Embedded strategies for improving the work-life balance for staff, including our marking policy
• Exciting development and teaching opportunities with our partners in City of London and Canary Wharf.
Our prized, historic location on the River Thames provides endless prospects for our members of staff:
• A diverse and vibrant borough 15 minutes from the centre of London.
• Excellent public transport links including DLR, tube, and bus
• Closely located to a hub of entertainment: Westfield Stratford, the Royal Naval College, the O2 arena, Greenwich and lush, green parks.
• A diverse range of lively restaurants and pubs dotted throughout the area.
We are a school that looks ahead, plans for and embraces change. We expect and look forward to candidates who seek an active role in taking the school forward at this exciting time.
Application pack and form available to download from the school’s website www.georgegreens.com and TES website.
Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 27th May 2020
Interviews: During this unprecedented times, it is impossible to invite you into school for an interview process. However, interviews will be going ahead via video conferencing. We may also ask you to undertake a task for submission prior to your interview.
George Green’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff, external agencies and volunteers to share this commitment. Any appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS Check.
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About George Green's School
- George Green's School
- 100 Manchester Road, Isle of Dogs
- London
- E14 3DW
- United Kingdom
George Greens’ School was founded 184 years ago by George Green, a local businessman and philanthropist. The site on which the school now stands – and a number of other properties in the area - are owned by the charitable trust, established by George Green. The trust uses the income that derives from its properties to support enrichment opportunities for students attending the school.
At the time the school moved to its current site in 1976, it was very much smaller than it is today and much of the current building did not exist. Over the years, however, with the numbers of prospective Year 7 parents putting George Green’s as their first preference regularly outstripping the numbers of places available, the school took the decision to embark on a building programme - which not only increased its overall capacity but also maximised disabled access.
A number of years ago now, George Green’s also welcomed into the school a number of students with complex and additional needs, from a local special school, which was closing – ensuring, through judicious use of the additional funding made available at the time, that these students were and remain fully integrated into the daily life of the school.
The school is very ambitious for its students. The school is part of the ‘Teach East London Teaching Schools Alliance’ (Morpeth and Bonner Group) as well as ‘The Isle of Dogs Collaborative’ comprising GGS and all the primary school on the Isle of Dogs. This enables us to be actively involved in education debate and development on a wider scale.
At the core of the school is the ‘Rights Respecting’ status. Pastoral care is excellent at George Green’s School. Students receive high levels of care, guidance and support from both the school and outside organisations resulting in strong personal development.
In addition, the school has also, over more recent years, enjoyed very good financial and other support from the many businesses operating out of nearby Canary Wharf – and from the many community organisations with which it has partnered. Local companies, such as Barclays, provide us with reading partners, mentors and allow us to take students to their HQ to see work environments. We work closely with many partners, such as ‘Think Forward’, who awarded us Best School/Firm Partnership, commending us for ‘some of the best examples of business engagement within the programme’.
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