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History Teacher

History Teacher

St Helen's School

North-West London

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Salary:
Competitive
Job type:
Full Time, Maternity Cover
Start date:
February or April 2022
Apply by:
1 November 2021

Job overview

St Helen’s is an academically selective independent girls’ day school of more than 1100 students aged 3-18, set in beautiful green space in Northwood, North-West London.

St Helen's is seeking to appoint a History teacher for February 22 or April 22. Candidates must be able to teach across the secondary age range including KS5.

THE PERSON

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications, experience and personal attributes 

  • A good honours degree in a relevant or associated subject   
  • A love of teaching and learning and a commitment to further professional development  
  • Be able to work well with others and develop the curriculum through collaborative planning  
  • Excellent classroom practice with experience of teaching History across the secondary age range including KS5 
  • Detailed understanding of current developments in the secondary curriculum and assessment  
  • Be able to lead learning in their classroom, develop each child and demonstrable passion for the subject 

Desirable:

• A teaching qualification such as PGCE or equivalent

• Evidence of further professional development

• Knowledge and experience of how IT can be used to support learning

The successful candidate will:

• Be an exceptional classroom practitioner and inspiring teacher

• Possess outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

• Have excellent time management and organisational skills

• Be creative, imaginative and energetic

• Be able to motivate others

• Make a contribution to the cocurricular programme


The teacher should have knowledge and understanding of: 

  • Effective learning and teaching styles 
  • Theory and practice of providing effectively for the individual needs of all children (e.g. classroom organisation, planning, and teaching strategies which remove barriers to learning and which stretch and challenge able, gifted and talented pupils) 
  • Monitoring, assessment, recording and reporting of pupils’ progress 
  • How assessment supports effective learning 
  • The need for high quality pastoral support to complement the academic experience of pupils aged 11-18 
  • The Legislation concerning Equality, Health & Safety, Individual Needs and Safeguarding / Child Protection

History, History of Art and Politics at St Helen’s School

History is taught throughout the school as a separate subject by seven members of staff. History of Art and Government & Politics are taught in the Sixth Form only. Teaching is allocated on the basis of expertise and time available, rather than according to any rigid structure.

The Department is an enthusiastic team, exchanging ideas and openly discussing policies and new developments.  A rigorous approach to the teaching of disciplinary concepts is particularly favoured.  A wide variety of teaching techniques are used, and the girls are encouraged to develop an interest in the past. We have a thriving History Forum which is led by Sixth Form students and includes KS4 students too. 

KEY STAGE 3:  Schemes of work are regularly reviewed in order to meet the changing needs of the girls and to incorporate our focus on disciplinary concepts and ideas. The girls start in Year 7 with ‘Introduction in History’, we then follow a themed programme of study.  In Year 8, pupils learn about the nature of political power and its journey from monarch to parliament. In Year 9 we focus upon the ‘Age of Empire’. We like to organise as many educational visits as we can to support the curriculum, including trips in the UK and a two-day Battlefields tour to  Ypres. The Department organises a trip to Berlin every two years for IGCSE students.

IGCSE HISTORY: The course is consistently popular and there are approximately 65 girls in each year of KS4, with the students studying the Edexcel History International GCSE. The depth studies chosen are: ‘Development of Dictatorship: Germany, 1918-1945’ and ‘A Divided Union: Civil Rights in the USA, 1945-1974’. The historical investigation is ‘Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24’ and the breadth study is ‘Changes in Medicine, c1848–c1948’.

A/AS LEVEL HISTORY. The Department offers the OCR History course to students who study ‘The Early Tudors,’ The Cold War in Europe’ and ‘Civil Rights in the USA.’ They are required to complete an independently-researched piece of coursework.  

AS/A2 GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS is well established at St. Helen’s and girls currently study for the Edexcel Government and Politics award. 

AS/A2 HISTORY OF ART is well established at St. Helen’s and girls study for the Edexcel History of Art award. 

RESOURCES:  The History, History of Art and Politics Department is well-resourced with its own classrooms, all with projectors and access to interactivity. Each girl also has their own devise allowing us to offer blended learning, including our own internally produced resources in addition to textbooks. 


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About St Helen's School

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St Helen's is an independent school for girls aged 3-18. We pride ourselves on our outstanding academic record, with our students consistently achieving excellent GCSE and A Level results.

We aim to give every girl an excellent, well-balanced, academic education, offering a broad and stimulating curriculum alongside a wide range of co-curricular activities.

Set in over 20 acres of beautiful green space in Northwood, Middlesex, we are just 25 minutes from central London and very close to Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We offer excellent facilities including a new, state-of-the-art sports centre; specialist facilities for Science, Design and Technology, Art, Drama, Music, and ICT; a digital, multi-media language laboratory; an excellent library housing an extensive collection of books, ICT facilities, newspapers and periodicals; and well-equipped teaching rooms.

We provide a friendly, secure and disciplined environment in which integrity, personal responsibility and respect for others are highly valued. Girls are encouraged to give of their best, be tolerant and caring, and to make a positive contribution as individuals and team players.

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