Teacher of Economics
Bromley High School
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Part Time, Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2019 for two terms
- Apply by:
- 2 December 2018
Job overview
Exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Teacher of Economics to join the team of an outstanding HMC school with an exemplary reputation for academic results, innovation and pastoral care.
As an inspirational, innovative teacher who is able to provide challenges for all pupils, including the able, gifted and talented, you will play a key role teaching students’ how to analyse numerical and written data, to evaluate different points of view and to express themselves clearly on paper and verbally in class discussion.
The ideal candidate will have an Honours degree in Economics or a related subject, with qualified teacher status and evidence of further professional development.
The ability to teach Politics would be an advantage.
Economics is a highly regarded academic discipline at Bromley High School; the application of which is relevant to the real world. Every news programme, political debate and discussion, and many of our everyday conversations are littered with economic concepts.
About Bromley High School
Bromley High School is a selective independent school of 860 girls, occupying a 25 acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent. The School enjoys an excellent reputation and in 2017 celebrated another year of outstanding academic achievement.
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.
Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews arranged accordingly. Therefore, it is recommended that if you wish to apply for this position you do so as soon as possible.
Bromley High School and the GDST are 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.
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About Bromley High School
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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.
A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.
The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.
Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing. In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.
Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.
Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system. In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.
The Girls’ Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).
Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
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