Teacher of Food Studies
Airedale Academy
Wakefield
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 18 April 2024
Job overview
Salary: MPS / UPS
September 2024
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Teacher of Food Studies to join our team from September 24.
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated professional who will continue to inspire our young people.
Why Us?
- You will have the opportunity to work with excellent within Art, Design and Technology.
- Students develop their knowledge and understanding of nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation, hygiene, cooking techniques, and sensory characteristics.
- We are keen to promote student understanding, appreciation and acceptance of people from a variety of cultural backgrounds through the preparation of food from different countries.
- The department currently has 1 room fully equipped for Food Studies and has access to classrooms and ICT facilities within the Art, Design and Technology block.
About Northern Ambition Academies Trust:
- As a Trust, we place people at the heart of everything we do. Our organisation is driven by a strong moral purpose. We are first and foremost an educational charity established to benefit children and local communities.
- The Trust has a collaborative network both internally across our family of schools but also externally with other education providers across West Yorkshire and beyond. The Trust currently comprises four schools across the primary and secondary phases, with plans for future growth and the opportunities that brings. Airedale Academy has solid finances and rising student numbers over the next few years.
- CPD opportunities are readily accessible internally and via the National College, Every E-Learning Platform and subject specialist associations. The Trust has a collaborative network both internally across our family of schools but also externally with other education providers across West Yorkshire and beyond.
We understand the importance of our colleague’s wellbeing and offer a range of benefits including:
o Access to the Trust’s Employee Assistance Programme providing a range of health and wellbeing resources and experts.
o Our commitment to staff wellbeing (as shown by our Wellbeing Awards for Schools and school-based Staff Wellbeing Ambassadors who are all trained Mental Health First Aiders).
o Trust wide commitment to reducing the workload of all staff through the use of Technology (both hardware and software).
o The provision of informal staff workrooms.
o Access to the Trust’s new Fitness Suite (based at Airedale Academy) from September 2024.
We would encourage you to visit us so that you can see for yourself what our Trust has to offer you. Please contact our Recruitment Partner at Hays Education by email michelle.audis@hays.com or by telephone on 07840047154 for an application pack, to organise a visit or for a confidential discussion.
Closing Date: 18th April 2024
Attached documents
About Airedale Academy
Airedale Academy is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational secondary school with a sixth form in West Yorkshire, serving students from the ages of 11 to 18. The secondary school, situated in Airedale, Castleford has 1100 students on record. It is part of Northern Ambition Academies Trust, a 4 school MAT spanning an age range of 2-18.
The school maintained its judgement of good by Ofsted in 2022.
Interim Principal
Mr D J Neal
Our values of Ambition, Bravery and Respect run through everything we do here at Airedale and we aim to instil these values in all of our students. We want to help develop our students into happy, well prepared, and confident adults, who adopt an ‘I can’ mentality and aim high in all they do. To enable us to achieve this and be the very best we can be, we are committed to working in partnership with students, their parents/carers and the community. Our absolute aim is to make the most of every young person’s time with us.
Ofsted
Ofsted (November 2022)
“Leaders have planned a curriculum with breadth and ambition. The opportunities this
curriculum offers are open to all, including pupils with special educational needs and/or
disabilities.”
“The school makes a considerable effort to provide wider opportunities for pupils. There
are many trips and educational visits available. The school ensures these opportunities are
available to everyone. ‘Airedale on tour’ is the programme of summer trips.”
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