Teacher of Textiles
Oxford High School for Girls GDST
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2021
Job overview
Contract: One Year Fixed Term Contract
Hours: Part time, 0.24 FTE
This is an exciting opportunity for a well-qualified Textiles teacher with excellent subject knowledge to join a thriving and popular Textiles Department in a leading independent day school in Oxford.
With your ability to inspire, excite and motivate pupils, you will contribute to providing an excellent education by teaching with expertise, offering support to the learning of individual students and contributing to the school’s pastoral system.
For the right candidate, there is also the possibility to teach Art across the 11-18 range.
Enthusiasm for Textiles is essential and a willingness to teach traditional textile skills to a high level with a creative foundation is key to success. You will need qualified teacher status or equivalent experience. Applications from NQTs are warmly welcomed.
Textiles at Oxford High School:
The Textile Department at Oxford High School has a strong reputation amongst students, parents, staff and the wider community that has been established over many years. It is an excellent department to work in, with wonderful creative students, who can be nurtured into fantastic artists and designers.
Colleagues work in an environment where they are able to develop new ideas and share good practice and are constantly reflecting and reviewing upon the success of project material and pupil progress. A huge wealth of resources, teaching aids and exemplar work has been built up over time, which continually changes and grows.
About Oxford High School:
Since its foundation over 140 years ago in the heart of Oxford's historic city centre, Oxford High School has been innovative and pioneering in its approach to girls' education.
Today, Oxford High School is a happy and vibrant place to work: our girls are highly motivated and ambitious, supportive yet self-aware. From our youngest Reception pupils through to our longest-serving members of staff, there is a real sense of pride at being part of the Oxford High community.
As well as our commitment to girls' education, we are committed to investing in our staff's personal development through training and learning initiatives and via the GDST network.
Benefits:
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the leading and largest group of independent girls' schools in the UK, we offer a variety of benefits, which include:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- Free school lunches
- 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 to apply please click the apply button.
Closing date: Monday 17th May 2021 at 9am.
Interviews: Friday 21st May 2021.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Oxford High School for Girls GDST
- Oxford High School for Girls GDST
- Belbroughton Road, Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX2 6XA
- United Kingdom
Oxford High School is an independent, non-denominational, all-through school for girls without nursery and with sixth form, situated in three sites in Summertown, North Oxford. It is one of 26 members of the GDST (Girls’ Day School Trust), meaning it is governed by the council and operates according to the trust’s policy. The school provides 906 places for primary, secondary and sixth-form students aged 4-19.
Oxford High School was founded in 1875 and is the oldest girls' school in the city. Until recently it accepted boys into its junior school, but is now girls-only.
Headteacher
Mrs Marina Gardiner Legge
Values and Vision
Oxford High believes it balances academic rigour with the chance for girls to explore their creativity and adventurous side, resulting in an encouraging and vibrant school full of high-achieving girls. As with other GDST schools, it aims to be an educational institution that shows principles, boldness, a strong network community and a girls-first attitude.
ISI
“The quality of pupils’ achievements is exceptional. Oxford High School is highly successful in meeting its aim to encourage girls to be ambitious in all areas of life and has fully met the recommendation from the previous inspection to maintain the high standards of learning and personal development. Pupils reach very high standards in their GCSE, International GCSE and A-level examinations and in the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), and most are successful in achieving their first choice of course at highly selective universities.”
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