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Teacher of EAL/ESOL

Teacher of EAL/ESOL

Rugby Free Secondary School

Warwickshire

  • £22,000 - £25,000 per year
  • Quick apply
  • Expired
Salary:
FTE
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
19 April 2021

Job overview

Rugby Free Secondary School opened in 2016 and has just moved into a brand-new purpose-built facility. The road hasn’t been smooth, but it is a school committed to providing success for all of its students and providing a workplace that supports its staff to ensure they are able to work to the best of their ability for our students every day. You won’t find teachers and staff anywhere else who are as committed to a school’s purpose and supporting its success.  

We are currently graded as inadequate by Ofsted (May 2019) but on our first monitoring visit (December 2019) and then again in February 2021, it was recognised just how much the school has improved in such a short space of time. Our aim is to be at least ‘good’ by December 2021. 

Key duties and responsibilities 

To provide specialist support to students with EAL within RFSS; to take a leading role in the provision for and monitoring of EAL students across RFSS.  

General Duties of the Role 

Support with the induction of admissions and induction for EAL students 

Liaise with the GLC academies re: all new EAL arrivals and, where possible, attend admissions meetings in order to collect EAL specific information for the EAL student profile   

Assess new students for language proficiency 

Ensure that the pupil(s) have access to resources to support their learning e.g. a bilingual dictionary   

Oversee the transition of EAL students between years, and phases. Liaise with feeder primaries for relevant information and ensure that Year 7 EAL students have access to support and resources for a successful transition.  

Information sharing 

Assess students’ language levels using the relevant assessment materials  

Ensure that the EAL student profiles are maintained, with SMART targets and teaching and learning strategies included  

Monitor progress of students with EAL using RFSS assessment processes and identify underachievement, advise staff on teaching and learning strategies to accelerate progress.  

Advise and support staff in implementing additional targeted support, interventions and/or assessments  

Maintain the EAL register and ensure it is accessible to staff 

Curriculum and wider responsibilities  

Advocate for the needs of students, ensuring that they have the curriculum, resources and access arrangements appropriate to their language needs and academic ability.  

Support the development of a strategy ensuring inclusion, equality of opportunity and respect for diversity   

Monitor national policy and guidance and suggest amendments to the RFSS EAL policy in response   

Communications  

Foster and maintain positive relationships with parents of students with EAL; attending Parents’ Evenings where relevant, contributing to reviews of students’ progress, and signposting parents to EAL specific support. 

Liaise with outside agencies where appropriate   

To meet statutory and school policy requirements 

To fulfil the aims of the school and work towards maintaining its ethos 

To participate in relevant directed time meetings  

To undertake any other duties deemed appropriate for this, or similar pay grade. The nature of the duties and responsibilities may change from time to time. 

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About Rugby Free Secondary School

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+44 1788 222060

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Welcome to Rugby Free Secondary School

‘Pupils benefit from a school community that includes pupils from a wide range of different backgrounds and cultures. There is a culture in which pupils see these differences as a positive thing. Uniqueness is valued and celebrated. Pupils feel confident ‘to be themselves’ at Rugby Free Secondary School. (Ofsted ‘Good’: July 2021)’

At Rugby Free Secondary School, we aim to foster kindness and pride, whilst maximising our academic and personal potential. We believe that all of our students should be happy and safe, whilst demonstrating the limitless endeavour and resilience required to succeed by striving for excellence. To achieve these goals, our school ethos is underpinned by the foundations of mutual respect, positive relationships and genuine curiosity. This is encompassed in our educational philosophy of creating more articulate, organised and progressive learners, and the desire to create both independent and collaborative learners who are proud to be educated at Rugby Free Secondary School. Alongside this, we focus on broadening our students’ core subject knowledge and understanding of the wider world. As a consequence, quality-first Teaching and Learning is at the centre of our school’s ethos, and is the key priority for all staff. Our aim is for teachers to deliver high-quality lessons to all year groups, whilst also being supported to develop through pertinent and purposeful internal and external CPD that is bespoke. Learning is integral to everything we do at RFSS. We ensure that all of our students, regardless of gender, ethnicity or ability, receive the best possible learning experiences, to enable them to achieve and maximise their potential. Here at RFSS, we continually support students to develop a love of learning to help them become learners for life, in order to equip them with the knowledge and skills that they will need in the real-world. This is also the case with our teaching staff, who continuously develop and update their own pedagogical practices, through Action Research projects and other bespoke professional development sessions.

Please find below link to our website with the latest Ofsted report when we were graded as ‘Good’.

https://www.rugbyfreesecondary.co.uk/ofsted

Our Values are:

  • Kindness – The quality of friendliness, generosity, consideration, honesty
  • Collaboration – The belief that working and learning with others will lead to greater success
  • Curiosity – A strong desire to know and to learn
  • Resilience - The ability to recover quickly and learn from the difficulties we face
  • Respect - To appreciate the importance of understanding and admiration for others and self
  • Endeavour - The belief that hard work is needed to achieve something we can be proud of.

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