Design Technology Teacher (Food/Textiles)
Barr's Hill School
Coventry
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 1 February 2019
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and motivated teacher to join our team of committed teaching professionals at Barr’s Hill School, and offer an environment where an ambitious and innovative teacher will thrive and progress. The ability to teach Food is essential, all other specialisms within D&T and Creative subjects will be considered also. This post will suit a newly qualified or experienced teacher with the talents and skills to enable our students to succeed. You will be an excellent team player and able to inspire others around you.
This is an exciting time to join Barr’s Hill School and the Futures Trust; The school is on a rapid improvement journey with clear values and a vision for exceptional learning. An ambitious and innovative teacher will thrive in this environment and will be offered plentiful opportunity for further progression and to effect real change to make a difference to students and the school. We seek an energetic hard working individual with an ability to motivate and inspire young people and staff around them. We are committed to the continuing professional development of all our staff. The school fully funds masters courses for colleagues interested and offers a range of high quality leadership development programmes and opportunities.
Barr’s Hill is an 11-18 inner city school in the heart of Coventry. Our diverse student population is one of the many strengths of the school. At Barr’s Hill School everything we do is focused on students and learning. Our results last summer were the most improved in Coventry and Ofsted judged us good in September. We are looking for highly motivated colleagues to take us to the next stage. This is a unique opportunity to work on school improvement focussed on learning. The school has been stabilised and repaired. Now we need to transform.
“This is a school in which everyone is valued and cared for. Staff have unanimously bought in to the shared common values.“
“The culture and ethos around the school is inclusive and driven towards high outcomes for all learners.”
“Staff training is highly effective and supports the school’s drive for excellence.”
OFSTED 2018
For more information and to request a full application pack including job description and person specification please contact Paul Hunt at Hays Education.
T: 0121 236 447
M: 07921 583 731
E: barrshill@hays.com
Closing date: 12 noon Friday 1st Feb 2019
Please also see our dedicated recruitment site:
https://www.hays.co.uk/jobs/barrs-hill-school/index.htm
Barr’s Hill School and The Futures Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates for all positions will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
About Barr's Hill School
About Barr’s Hill
Barr’s Hill School is an Academy, working in partnership with President Kennedy School, an outstanding neighbouring school. The school’s diversity and high aspirations for all are unique strengths. Barr’s Hill School is on a beautiful green site and has a 100 year history within the City.
We are a smaller secondary school with a very special family atmosphere and we place an emphasis on ensuring our students feel supported and happy. Our school focuses on each student individually ensuring they make outstanding progress and reach their true potential.
Headteacher
Chris Jupp
The Bridge
Year 7 students will join ‘The Bridge’: a custom designed area just for them, with both social and teaching spaces and a specialist team of teachers who are experts in Year 7 learning and progress.
The Bridge helps to ensure each Year 7 student feels safe and happy as they make the transition from primary to secondary school. The Bridge offers personalised timetables, a carefully crafted curriculum and additional small group lessons so that every student can make rapid progress. Before they join us, students take part in our transition programme helping them to feel confident about their new venture whilst making new friends ready for
September.
“I felt very happy and excited to start Secondary school at Barr’s Hill in The Bridge. It’s great that Year 7s have their own space. The Bridge to The Future programme meant that I had already made friends and knew lots of teachers before I even started.” - Brandon, Year 7 Bridge Student.
The Experience
We offer a diverse range of Sports, Creative, Performance and Service opportunities as well as the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
We have formed close links with Warwick and Coventry Universities, The RSC and Jaguar Landrover; we offer our students amazing opportunities and expect them to be very busy!
We have traditional and high expectations of our students.
Uniform is smart and mobile phones are not allowed in lessons or at social times; we value face to face conversations not screens.
We have high expectations of our students. Our students must demonstrate PRIDE at all times.
Post 16 Select
After progressing through the ‘Hubs’ from The Bridge to KS4 older students will join Post-16 Select, a joint venture with President Kennedy School’s 6th Form that enables us to offer a huge range of courses with some of the best teaching in Coventry.
Students can study a range of challenging academic subjects such as: Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Further Maths, English, Languages, History, Geography, Psychology and Sociology all the way to A-Level. We also have some of the best Creative Arts and vocational provision in Coventry. “The teaching has been challenging but supportive. I am hoping to do well in my A-levels and go onto University to study Law.” - Ria, Post-16 Select Student.
GCSE Results
In 2019 we were delighted with our results at both GCSE and A-level. At GCSE progress made by students will put the school in the top 2% nationally, indeed, progress is likely to be the strongest in Coventry for non selective schools.
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