Librarian
Wood Green School
Witney, Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 5th January 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 November 2017
Job overview
Wood Green School is a popular, 11-18 mixed comprehensive school with an excellent academic and pastoral reputation. It has a thriving Sixth Form. The library at Wood Green School (Learning Resource Centre) is a valued part of the school.
This is a term time only, part time job for 33.25 hours a week and you must be able to start at 8.15am.
This is an exciting opportunity for a suitable candidate to lead the LRC and contribute to the development of our learning culture. Reading and research play a significant role at our school with a number of exciting initiatives. For example, all students in years 7 and 8 take part in the Accelerated Reader programme; Year 7s have special lessons in research through our Academic Enrichment course and all 6th From students take the EPQ qualification.
We are looking for someone with a passion for literature and for research and learning who wants to inspire this in young people. You will also need to be well organised and have excellent communication and inter-personal skills. If you have these skills then this job will enable you to flourish.
Pay scale: Grade 7: Actual salary range £15,671 - £17,185
If chartered Grade 8: Actual salary range £17,747 -£19,683 For details and an application form please visit our school website www.wgswitney.org.uk
Closing date for applications: 15th November 2017 at 12 noon
Attached documents
About Wood Green School
Wood Green School is a mixed, comprehensive, secondary school with sixth form situated in Witney, Oxfordshire. It is an academy converter operating under The Acer Trust, which was co-founded by four Oxfordshire schools: Wood Green School, Chalgrove Primary School, Icknield Community College and Matthew Arnold School.
Wood Green School provides 1,335 places for students between the ages of 11 and 18 when fully subscribed. It converted to academy status in February 2017.
Headteacher
Rob Shadbolt
Values and vision
Wood Green School subscribes to the Acer Trust values of trust, equity and opportunity, believing these are essential for a successful collaboration and for providing high-quality education for all students through these important years of their lives.
The secondary school also uses the LEARN Well values of learning, effort, aspiration, respect, nurture and wellbeing to capture the most important aspects of an excellent education. High expectations are always placed on students, and they are helped to achieve these in a happy and supportive environment.
Ofsted report
“Leaders at all levels, teachers and governors have effectively brought about improvement across the school. Leaders make very effective use of information on students’ progress to identify where strengths and weaknesses life. Subject leaders make a positive contribution to improvement by closely monitoring the quality of teaching in their departments. Students’ social, spiritual, moral and cultural development is promoted effectively across the school and strongly contributes to the school’s caring ethos.”
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