Head of Food Technology
Warwick School
Warwickshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2023
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2022
Job overview
An experienced and committed Head of Food Technology is required from September 2023 for an exciting new role at Warwick School.
Food and nutrition technology is a new subject for us, and we begin teaching it for the first time from September 2023. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to design and build the department from scratch. Work begins on the new room in January, and we hope that the post holder would be keen to be involved in the conversations around the purchasing of suitable equipment.
We are very fortunate to have close ties with our sister school, King’s High, who share a site with us, and we envisage that the post holder will have a close relationship with the three teachers and two technicians in their department. This should prove to be a fruitful source for sharing good practice and for other cross-school ventures.
In the first year in post, the successful applicant will teach Year 7, 8 and 9 as well as older pupils who opt for cookery courses as part of their Friday afternoon activity programme. From 2024, we will be able to add GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition to the curriculum. The choice of specification will depend on the recommendation of the successful candidate.
This is an exciting opportunity to join and build your own department in a successful school with ambitious plans for the subject.
For further details and information on how to apply, please go to our website: https://www.warwickindependentschoolsfoundation.co.uk/teaching-vacancies/head-of-food-technology-warwick-school
Completed application forms to be sent to hr@warwickschools.co.uk.
Closing date for applications 12.00 pm Monday 5 December 2022. Intended interview date: Thursday 9 December 2022.
About Warwick School
The oldest boys' school in England, Warwick School has been in continuous existence at least from the days of King Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042-1066) when the fledgling town possessed a school under the tutelage of All Saints' Church. The earliest appearance of Warwick Town in history is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 914, and this has long been taken as the date of the foundation of Warwick School.
Very little documentary evidence exists before 1545, when King Henry VIII established, i.e. presumably re-founded, the "King's New School of Warwick." The premises were then in the Guild Hall which then became part of the Lord Leycester Hospital.
Between 1697 and 1879 the school was run in the old college of the Vicars Choral in St Mary's churchyard, and was predominantly a day school. The education, typically for the time, emphasised the classics above all.
The move to the open fields site south of the River Avon eventually brought about a steady rise in numbers – in 1878 there were 44 boys in the school, and by 1906, 110. In that year a merger with the Middle School in Warwick esulted in the modern name of Warwick School being adopted, rather than The King’s School.
Numbers in the 1930s reached 350, with 18 staff and a sixth form of about 40.
By the 1960s there were over 750 pupils and 45 staff. This expansion in numbers, together with a broadening of the curriculum, produced a continuous demand for new buildings. The original Science Block of 1905 survives in its third guise as the modern music department. More modern buildings included the Memorial Gymnasium, 1957, the Guy Nelson Hall and Languages Block of the early 1970s.
Over the past 25 years significant investment has been spent on improving the facilities and accommodating an ever increasing school roll. A new sports pavilion, theatre, a state of the art science building and teaching block have provided new and spacious accommodation and a new school hall is nearing completion.
In 2014 the school celebrated its 1100th anniversary, which provided a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the history and success of the school with all of its dedicated staff and governors, pupils and parents, as well as strengthening our links with the wider community.
The reputation of Warwick School in the local area and beyond has led to the recruitment of excellent staff and pupils and this in turn has resulted in record exam results, outstanding achievements in music, drama and sport and an ever growing programme of extra-curricular activities. The school prides itself on its strong sense of identity and its ability to provide an outstanding all-round education to a wide mix of boys.
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