Modern Foreign Languages Teacher
Atherton High School
Wigan
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 26 May 2022
Job overview
Modern Foreign Languages Teacher - Starting September 2021 - MPS/UPS - Full Time (part time applicants also welcomed)
‘Our curriculum ambition at Atherton High School is to make learning accessible for all'. We have designed a challenging and ambitious curriculum to provide the best learning opportunities for all our students to aspire and achieve.
Our core values that drive our curriculum are:
· Aspiration for all to improve life chances for every student.
· Excellence in learning through an ambitious knowledge and vocabulary rich curriculum for all.
· Character and personal development to equip all of our students to succeed in life.
At Atherton High School what is taught is coherently planned and sequenced to equip students to succeed in life. Our curriculum supports students from all backgrounds, including those who are disadvantaged, so students can access a high-quality, knowledge-rich curriculum. Our school community believes strongly in providing disadvantaged pupils with a curriculum that enables them to reach the academic standards of their non-disadvantaged peers. Our goal is to bring our young people into the big conversations of our disciplines, to bring depth to our curriculum, so they can understand the world around them.
What does this job do?
- To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
- To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor.
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
- To contribute to raising standards of student attainment.
- To share and support the Academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
“If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, we want you to work for Education Partnership Trust.”
What are the job requirements?
- A clear passion for MFL
- Excellent professional knowledge and understanding of national and examination curricular requirements of the subject
- Excellent knowledge of Modern Foreign Languages with the ability to plan lessons with clear objectives to ensure progression for all students
- Established as an effective teacher across the age and ability range
- Good knowledge of current educational research relating to the subject and wider aspects of how pupil learn
- A thorough understanding of and commitment to safeguarding children and young people
- Willingness to learn and constantly striving to improve
About Us
The Education Partnership Trust (EPT) was established in 2012 as a not-for-profit multi-academy trust and approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities.
Our pupils come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our schools and Trust stronger.
Why you should work here - benefits
- Employee cash back plan provided free by the Trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
- 6 sessions of free counselling including CBT, wellbeing and bereavement.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to government pension schemes.
- Free parking.
- Training and development including emerging leaders programmes.
Closing Date: 26th May 2022 at 12noon
Interview Date: 27th May 2022
Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted, if you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team HR@ept-uk.com
Education Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.
Education Partnership Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Attached documents
About Atherton High School
Headteachers Welcome!
Welcome to Atherton High School. Our school sits at the heart of the community and encompasses the values and strengths of the town’s proud history. Atherton High School is part of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT), who are committed to creating outstanding schools which transform learning, lives, and communities.
Our school has a culture built around our values of respect, responsibility, and ambition; these core values underpin all we do. We promote our values through a strong, knowledge rich curriculum, whereby pupils develop depth of understanding across a wide range of subjects, to enable an ambitious education for all learners.
We are blessed with dedicated, talented, and highly qualified staff who expect the highest standards and academic effort from all our pupils. We encourage our pupils to take responsibility for their actions, decisions, and their future education and in doing so, we are providing an education for life. We believe every pupil is an individual that can achieve well; this is their responsibility, but we will support them every step of the way!
We are proud of our pupils and proud of our school. We expect pupils to demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour so that everyone can learn, free from disruption or barriers. We want all our pupils to feel safe and to develop into caring, responsible, and confident young people. Pupils will be given a wealth of opportunities to experience culture beyond their experience so that they may develop holistically.
Support for each other is a key component of any thriving community. We are proud to serve our local community. Our facilities are accessed by local clubs and organisations to help deliver important extracurricular opportunities to develop pupils beyond school. We are also proud of the many pupils who enrich local community groups and offer a great deal to the wider community as a result. We are committed to working closely with our pupils, families, partner schools and the wider community to contribute positively to the local area and ensure the best possible outcomes for the young people of Atherton.
Atherton High is a highly successful 11 – 16 school and over the past three years has achieved the following:
• Judged as ‘Good’ in all categories of the Ofsted framework in January 2024.
• Outcomes category move from ‘well below average’ to ‘average’ and the most improved outcomes in Wigan authority.
• Established as the ‘school of choice’ in the local area, oversubscribed in every year group and waiting lists across all cohorts.
I am incredibly proud to be Headteacher of Atherton High School and would be delighted to welcome you to see our school in action.
Leanne Turner
Headteacher
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