Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages/Year 7 Curriculum Leader for Modern Foreign Languages

Central England Academy Trust's BRAND-NEW school, Higham Lane North Academy, is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages / Curriculum Leader for Year 7 Modern Foreign Languages for a September 2025 start

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and highly effective individuals. The successful candidate will take lead responsibility for providing leadership to secure high-quality teaching and subject knowledge of a modern foreign language.

General duties and responsibilities:

•Currently at Higham Lane, all pupils study French. We are therefore fortunate to have an outstanding French curriculum to follow, but we welcome applications from teachers who are also able to teach another language as a potential alternative to French. We also welcome applicants’ thoughts on a curriculum model. 

•Pupils will be taught for 4 hours of a Language per fortnight in Years 7 and 8. Pupils will initially be grouped according to ability. 

•Pupils will be taught an ambitious, carefully planned and sequenced knowledge curriculum. The use of knowledge booklets, regular quizzing and use of knowledge organisers will be a key feature of this.

•There will be a strong commitment to reading and literacy throughout the school that all teachers will be an integral part of.  It is our ambition that every child’s reading age will match their chronological age. To help achieve this, pupils will read in morning form time with their tutors, take part in our Accelerated Reading scheme and there will be a range of reading interventions for our less-able readers. As a form tutor you will also support the school’s ambition of ensuring that pupils’ numeracy skills are excellent and will deliver a weekly form time activity with your form group, such as Numeracy Ninjas.

•There is a suite of Languages classrooms including the use of IT facilities and a Visualiser in each classroom.  

•Super-curricular activities are an important part of our curriculum offer of entitlement to ensure that our pupils experience the best of what has been thought and said in each subject.  Every department will offer a weekly activity linked to their subject that provides pupils with the opportunity to develop their cultural capital and passion for a range of subjects and interests.  In your application, please include details of what you can offer your growing department/school. As part of the North Guarantee for pupils, we will also offer several trips and visits over the five years that subject teachers and leaders will lead on.  

•You will be provided with a laptop to help support your teaching and learning

 Main purpose

•The Year 7 curriculum leader will take lead responsibility for providing leadership to secure:

• High-quality teaching and subject knowledge of a modern foreign language

• A coherently planned and sequenced knowledge curriculum, adapting the HLS model where appropriate

• Improved standards of learning and achievement for all pupils

• Consistent use of assessment

 Effective use of resources

What we offer

At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:

• A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
• A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
• A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
• Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
• Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
• Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
• The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
• A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
• The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.

Employee Support Schemes:

·       Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users

·       A Gym Membership Scheme

·       A Cycle to Work Scheme

·       An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support

·       An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials.

·       A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more.

Further details about the role

Higham Lane North Academy is set to open with up to five forms of entry (150 places) in Year 7. This state-of-the-art school and community resource is at the new, Milby Meadows neighbourhood on Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton Warwickshire, CV11 6YN. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 920-pupil school. The school will include a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) with up to 20 places available by 2030.

How to apply

Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the School’s website (www.hlna.co.uk) and email them to jobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for. If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 76388123. The closing date for applications is midday, Monday 24th February 2025.

Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form: -

•why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position;

•your specific ideas about what you can do as a Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages both within the classroom and beyond to ensure pupils at Higham Lane North Academy are safe, happy and make excellent progress.

•Your specific ideas about what you can do as a Curriculum Leader of Year 7 Modern Foreign Languages to ensure that pupils make sustained and rapid progress in the subject.