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Senior Teacher (Science)

Senior Teacher (Science)

King's Academy Easthampstead Park

Bracknell

Salary:
L10-L12: £52,445 - £54,993 per annum
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2020
Apply by:
27 March 2020

Job overview

Responsible for assessment and progress

Student Loan reimbursement: Eligible Bracknell Forest teachers of languages, physics, chemistry, biology and computing can apply for student loan reimbursements for up to 11 financial years. Teachers must meet the employment and subject criteria to apply (see flyer for details).

Are you an experienced Head of Science or Science Subject Leader (Biology, Chemistry or Physics), keen to make your first step into Senior Leadership? This is a unique opportunity to join an innovative SLT at forward-thinking school, which is driving progress through evidence-based change. We are seeking to appoint a Senior Teacher (Science specialist) to help develop our pedagogy school-wide with a specific focus on assessment. We firmly believe that formative feedback is the most important form of assessment, and are looking for someone to work with our subject leaders and teachers on ensuring our assessment practices are consistently positive, meaningful and motivational for students, and manageable for teachers. The successful candidate will have a genuine passion for pedagogy, will be engaged with reading, research and professional networks, and will have the leadership skills required to successfully develop the practice of others. 

This post represents an excellent opportunity for an outstanding teacher with a strong track record of improvement work as a middle leader, keen to take their first step into Senior Leadership. Previous post holders at this level have gone on to secure Assistant/Deputy Headships, and we would expect the successful applicant to do the same within 3 to 5 years, either at our school or elsewhere. 

Key aims of this exciting new role will include:

  • Leading CPD to raise the quality of formative assessment and AFL school-wide.
  • Ensuring regular ‘high challenge, low stakes’ knowledge recall and rehearsal activities are taking place regularly in all subjects. 
  • Ensuring assessment in all subjects supports interleaving; that students are routinely being required to recall and rehearse knowledge they have been taught last term and last year as well as last week.
  • Promoting the use of comparative judgement based approaches to assessment in all written subject areas.
  • Ensuring work scrutiny across the school consistently focuses on student learning rather than teacher marking.
  • Ensuring all department feedback policies support the ethos of being high impact and time-efficient, and that the requirements are being consistently followed by all teachers in each department team.
  • Be a key member of the school’s coaching team working closely with the school’s Teaching and Learning lead.
  • Be part of the school’s Leadership team.


Easthampstead Park Community School is a vibrant, cutting edge learning environment.  Our school culture marries unswervingly high academic expectations with excellent pastoral care and support.  The concept of community is at the very heart of our vision; we believe in a three-way partnership between parents, teachers and students, and are proud of our setting and the local community.  Teaching and learning are at the very heart of our school and drives everything we do.  An action-research based approach to teaching and learning has been central to our improvement journey in recent years, and we wholeheartedly believe in investing in staff’s continued professional development in the same way that we expect our teachers to passionately invest in our students.

This is a very exciting time to join us.  In recent years, we have made excellent progress, and at our last OFSTED inspection (June 2016), we were rated as ‘good’ in all areas.  

“Since her appointment, the Headteacher has focused on making sure that all pupils feel safe, happy and confident so that they learn well.  This did not happen overnight but it is now apparent in pupils’ much-improved behaviour and their positive response to the good teaching they receive.”  

We aspire to be rated ‘outstanding’, driven by a core belief that all of our students deserve nothing but the best possible teaching and support in order to be happy, healthy and successful.  We aim to deliver the best quality teaching and learning in a school where staff and students have respect for, and pride in themselves, their school and their community.

If you feel you have the necessary skills, mind-set and determination to join us on our journey towards ‘outstanding,’ we would very much like to hear from you. 

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to all teaching staff, including access to Perkbox which provides teaching staff with money off in various High Street stores and with a wide range of online retailers.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Rhona Franco (Personnel Officer) on either the telephone number or email address below.  

Online applications can be completed via the Bracknell Forest Council link from the school website https://www.epschool.org/staff-vacancies/   

Should you require any further information, please telephone our Personnel Officer on 01344 390826 or email recruitment@epschool.org

Applications will be considered upon receipt, so you are encouraged to make an expression of interest as soon as possible. No agencies please.

Closing date: 9am, Friday 27th March 2020.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.  An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be undertaken.

No agencies please - please do not forward CVs.

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About King's Academy Easthampstead Park

King’s Academy Easthampstead Park is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive school situated in south Bracknell and the majority of our students are local; the Headteacher’s vision is for us to become the first-choice destination school for the designated catchment and beyond. There are currently just under 1000 students on roll and this number is predicted to rise due to the increasing popularity of the school and new housing developments in the area.

At King’s Academy Easthampstead Park, our vision is to provide an outstanding education for all students which fully prepares them for life beyond school. We aim to develop learners who are happy, healthy and equipped in every way to deal with the challenges and opportunities they will face in the future. The values of respect and pride are central to our school. We have high academic aspirations for all of our students, but also believe that education is about far more than just achieving outstanding academic results in examinations. We seek to develop students who have a strong sense of community, both locally and globally, who are confident, able to lead others and bring about positive change. The school is fully inclusive and has facilities to cater for all learning including special physical and education needs. Our facilities are excellent and we have a good range of performance and sports facilities which support both our in-school and our extended school curriculum.

In November 2022, we joined King’s Group Academies (KGA), following an associate membership lasting nearly two years. We took a great deal of time and care when choosing a MAT to join, and believe the relationship we have established allows us to retain our own unique school identity, whilst benefiting from the economies of scale and increased opportunities afforded by being part of a larger group of schools (‘the best of both worlds!’). Since we joined KGA, staff at all levels have been really enjoying sharing best practice and working collaboratively with their peers from the other KGA schools.

We have an incredibly friendly and supportive staff who enjoy working with a student body that fully reflects our community. The Senior Leadership Team includes two Deputy Headteachers, two Assistant Headteachers, and four Senior Teachers, all of whom will have strategic responsibility for a key area in the school’s development. There is a strong sense that the school is moving forward and we believe that this is an exciting time to join us.

The Local Area

Bracknell is located in the heart of Berkshire, 30 miles west of London and 10 miles to the east of Reading. The town is a thriving commercial centre with headquarters of many national and international companies. Transport links are good and allow staff to live within a large geographical area. The M3 and M4 motorways are each within ten minutes of the school and there is a direct rail link to London Waterloo or via Reading, a fast train to London Paddington. London airports are within easy reach.

Bracknell offers The Lexicon, a comprehensive shopping area, and travelling to The Oracle in Reading, The Meadows in Camberley or to other shopping centres at Guildford, Slough and Windsor is straightforward. Within Bracknell there is The South Hill Park Arts Centre, which comprises theatre, cinema and galleries. Centrally there is a 10-screen cinema, bowling alley, night club and many restaurants and pubs. The Ozone Ice Rink features a new state of the art ice skating rink for public use. Other sporting and leisure facilities include a Sports Centre with three swimming pools, indoor halls and an outdoor athletics track. The Coral Reef water sports ‘fun pool’ and the Lookout, a local heritage centre, are on the edge of the town.

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