Teacher of Physics
Streatham and Clapham High School
Lambeth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 20 March 2019
Job overview
This is an opportunity for an outstanding Physics specialist to play a key role teaching Physics at Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level at an historic and successful independent day school for girls.
Working with the Head of Physics your responsibilities will include:
- Teaching Physics across the 11-18 age range
- Inspiring excellent attainment through promoting high standards of teaching and learning
- Advising pupils and parents on progress, giving clear guidance for improvement
- Assisting the Head of Department to prepare students for university applications in this subject area
The ideal candidate will be a well-qualified graduate with qualified teacher status, or the equivalent gained through experience, with the enthusiasm and ability to inspire, excite and motivate pupils in Physics.
Science at Streatham & Clapham High School
The Department has seven modern laboratories, with two specialising in each science discipline and a state-of-the-art laboratory specific to sixth-form teaching.
The Department is very well equipped with textbooks, modern equipment and ICT resources to support study at all levels of the curriculum. The Department is also supported by three subject-specific laboratory technicians.
Our students are given many co-curricular opportunities to encourage a greater engagement in science. Recent excursions have included visits to The Observatory Science Centre in Herstmonceux, science conferences at the Institute of Education and a particle masterclass at Royal Holloway College.
About Streatham & Clapham High School
Streatham & Clapham High School is a vibrant, exciting and fulfilling place in which to work. The School is characterised by a warm, welcoming and supportive atmosphere. Members of the Common Room are supportive of each other, and this ethos of support is reflected by the ease of access that all members of staff have to the leadership team. Relationships with pupils are respectful, purposeful and warm. New colleagues are supported through a personalised induction programme.
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 20 March 2019.
Streatham & Clapham High School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Streatham and Clapham High School
- Streatham and Clapham High School
- 42 Abbotswood Road, Streatham
- London
- SW16 1AW
- United Kingdom
Streatham & Clapham High School (SCHS) is a highly successful independent, academically selective school for girls aged 3-18. It offers an inspiring, enlightened and rigorously challenging education in a lively, vibrant and warmly supportive environment. We celebrate diversity and draw strength from our rich social and cultural mix. SCHS pupils achieve examination results which place the school in the top tier of UK independent schools at GCSE and A Level.
This reflects the school’s belief that all pupils should be inspired to outperform expectations on a daily basis. The pursuit of excellence is thus our defining feature. Along the way, our pupils learn the beauty of reason, the allure of the aesthetic, and the vitality of the physical. They are empowered to navigate the landscape of the human spirit and to achieve beyond the realms of expectation.
The Prep School (3-11) and Senior School (11-18) occupy separate sites. The Senior School inhabits a four-acre site in a delightfully tranquil and leafy oasis of south London. Pupils benefit from first-class facilities, including ICT suites, music and music technology suites, a recital hall, technology workshops, a full-size indoor sports hall, dance and art studios, and sports pitches and tennis courts. Major investment in exciting development and refurbishment plans includes a new Sixth Form Centre and a Creative Arts Centre.
SCHS is abuzz with activity. Pupils regularly put on ambitious drama productions. The school has four choirs, a full orchestra and a variety of chamber-music groups. Its pupils participate in a legion of sporting activities, in which they achieve great success. SCHS’s Gymnastics teams, for instance, were the best in England in the 2012 National Gymnastics Competition. However, pupils attain success across the spectrum of activity, from achieving outstanding results in public-speaking competitions, to winning prizes for the crash-testing of vehicles at Imperial College; from gaining awards for eco-action and sustainability, to trekking across the Atlas Mountains in Morocco or to the base camp of Mount Everest.
We are convinced that intrinsic to our pupils’ success are our expert and alert pastoral systems. The warmly supportive environment and the school’s family ethos enable all pupils to be known, valued and nurtured as individuals. This helps them to make outstanding progress, both academically and in their personal development.
SCHS has a vibrant, purposeful and happy culture with a focus on supporting all pupils to achieve beyond their potential.
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