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Graduate Internship: Cover, coaching, SEN, Literacy, Safety, Behaviour

Graduate Internship: Cover, coaching, SEN, Literacy, Safety, Behaviour

Kingsbury High School

Brent

Salary:
NJC Scale Scale 4, £21,479 paid pro rata for 36 hours/39 weeks Actual Salary £18,918
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
Immediate
Apply by:
19 September 2019

Job overview

Salary: NJC Scale Scale 4

  • Full Time salary £21,479paid pro rata for 36 hours/39 weeks
  • Actual Salary £18,918


Category: Non-teaching

Closing Date: 9.00 am on Friday 20 September 2019

Contract: Fixed Term for one year

Hours: 36 hours per week, varied start and finish times

Start Date:  Immediate

Are you a graduate looking for an opportunity to gain experience and to develop a range of essential skills within a school which offers support throughout prior to applying for teacher training?

 This paid role could be the experience you have been looking for!

 Kingsbury High is a large, split site, over-subscribed 11-18, mixed, multi-ethnic school.  We are located in an attractive suburban location surrounded by parkland with excellent transport links to enable easy access from central London and fringe areas.

We are looking for Graduate Interns who are enthusiastic and reliable, has experience of working with students or young people and would be able to cover classes for short term teacher absences, often at short notice and ensure the safety and general welfare of students on site throughout the school day.

There are also opportunities to combine cover work with work within our Inclusion Faculty as well as supporting the Faculty within your subject area.

A key part of the role will be to offer lunchtime and after school activities.  This could be related to sport, drama, Young Enterprise, Duke of Edinburgh, working with gifted students or a traditional school ‘club’.

What experience do I need?

  • You will have some experience of working with children or young people and excellent interpersonal skills
  • You will have good communication, literacy, numeracy and IT skills
  • You will need to be flexible as things can often change at the last minute 
  • You will be able to relate to young people with a variety of learning needs and be able to use a range of strategies to deal       with classroom behaviour


The appointee will be required to complete a six-month period of probation.

To apply:    Please email khsvacancies@kingsburyhigh.org.uk   for an application pack

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and the appointment will be subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical and an enhanced DBS Disclosure check.

Kingsbury High is a converter Academy committed to national terms and conditions for teaching staff, local NJC terms for support staff and, as an Equal Opportunities employer, welcomes applications from all sections of the community. 


About Kingsbury High School

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The origins of our current school go back to 1925 when the Kingsbury County School, with 71 pupils, was established in a building which had been the main office in Colindale of the former Aircraft Manufacturing Company. 

In 1932, by now with 420 pupils and 25 teachers, the school moved to its brand new premises in Princes Avenue, prior to being designated a grammar school under the Butler Education Act of 1944. With the grammar school came the secondary modern, or two in Kingsbury’s case, and the Tyler’s Croft Secondary Modern Schools, one for girls and one for boys, opened in 1952

Kingsbury High School, the amalgamation of the grammar school and the two secondary moderns, was formed in 1967 and that is the date that most accurately represents the founding of our school. 

In 1993 a majority of parents voted for the school to gain Grant Maintained status, which brought direct government funding and a degree of independence, for example, over admissions. The school rapidly gained a national reputation for computing, emphasized when The Queen personally chose the school for her launch of the royal website in 1997.

Kingsbury High was then designated a “beacon school”, charged with sharing its good practice with other schools. Specialist status in Mathematics and Computing followed in 2004 and the years 2010, 2014 and 2018 have seen highly successful Ofsted inspections confirming Kingsbury High as a "good" school. The school has consistently maintained a very good level of examination performance. 

The school converted to Academy status in December 2011, reluctantly, in the knowledge that this would bring greater funding for the benefit of its pupils. It remains committed to the comprehensive ethos and to national terms and conditions for teaching staff and has retained its straightforward name "Kingsbury High School." 

In 2011, the school began teaching largely to its mixed ability form groups in the first two years and reduced the sixteen subjects which pupils used to encounter every week. Pupils do not miss out but by grouping subjects together or placing them on rotations they study just eight in a given half term, enabling the formation of much stronger relationships between teacher and pupil, very much the key to progress. Alongside that the school introduced extended projects, oracy units to promote more confident speaking, Excel Days, the Kingsbury Guarantee and Year 8 graduation. It was all quite a change and year 8 pupils are now tremendously keen to graduate at the best possible level and to see if they can get their names on the new honours board in the Tylers Hall.

The sixth form developed, too, introducing “pathway 3”, now “Access to A levels” which gives a chance for students to try out A levels who would not otherwise have met the entry criteria, and a programme for the most able sixth formers which prepares them for application and entry to the elite Russell Group universities.

The school changed in other ways, seeking to repel somewhat the enthusiasm the educational system had developed for valuing only what can be measured. Schools had slavishly adopted the Ofsted approach to grading teachers through lesson observations and Kingsbury High became one of the first to move away from that and to free its teachers up from the uniform expectations of teaching style which had been much a feature of the period nationally.

Kingsbury High is proud to be a comprehensive school. We still regularly send pupils to Oxbridge and we are equally proud of our reputation as a centre of excellence for our work with special needs pupils. At whatever end of the academic spectrum and all points in between, our pupils continue to succeed in gaining the skills they need for education and for life. 

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