Teacher of English
Stonyhurst
Lancashire
- Expiring soon
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- Salary:
- Dependent on experience, based on the Stonyhurst Teacher's pay scales
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 6 June 2024
Job overview
Studying English at Stonyhurst has a special significance given the College’s rich literary heritage and association with some of the nation’s most loved literature. Whether it be Baskerville Hall in Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ or the poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, who spent a vast amount of time at Stonyhurst. Our beautiful buildings and our rural surroundings are part of the landscape of our literary history.
Against this backdrop, students of English at Stonyhurst are encouraged to challenge themselves in the breadth and rigour of the work they complete, aided by access to a vast array of historical texts contained in the Stonyhurst Collections, not least the Shakespeare First Folio.
The English department at Stonyhurst is a strong and dedicated team made up of six subject specialists, all with a wealth of experience. The department seeks to maintain a balance between teacher autonomy and consistency for pupils. All pupils are in streamed sets up to Higher Line, where they are mixed ability. The English department is proud of its excellent results which are well above national averages, as well as its high profile within the school. Currently, all full-time teachers have their own classroom base.
The faculty follows the Edexcel IGCSE courses for English Language and English Literature and also offers the IGCSE English Language course in a year for Pre IB pupils. In the sixth form, both IB (Higher and Standard Level) and A level (CIE English Literature) are offered.
The Faculty is particularly involved in the wider life of the school running several creative writing competitions, debating, public speaking, School’s Challenge and the Oxbridge Reading Group, as well as hosting several events over the course of the year.
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About Stonyhurst
Stonyhurst College is the UK’s leading Catholic co-educational boarding and day school for pupils aged 3-18. Boarding is from the age of 7.
At the College, there are approximately 498 pupils aged 13-18, two thirds of whom are boarders. At Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall, the adjacent dedicated preparatory school, there are around 240 pupils aged 3-13. Stonyhurst is set in stunning countryside, near the Ribble and Hodder rivers and the beautiful Trough of Bowland. Manchester is only about an hour away by road or rail. The market town of Clitheroe is four miles away, and we are 12 miles from the city of Preston. The Lake District can be reached in about an hour, and the Yorkshire Dales are even closer.
Stonyhurst has a fascinating heritage, being the oldest continuously active Jesuit school in the world.
It was founded in St Omer, Northern France (then the Spanish Netherlands), in 1593, and moved to its present site in Lancashire’s beautiful Ribble Valley in 1794. Throughout the years of religious
persecution in England, Stonyhurst educated the boys of the English Catholic aristocracy and gentry.
The College’s Ignatian mission and identity, and its sense of family, set Stonyhurst apart from other schools. Pupils are urged to do as much as they can (Quant Je Puis) for other people following the example of Jesus Christ and following in the spirit and charism of the Jesuits. The College prepares young people to change the world for others.
Stonyhurst is a family where heritage and innovation are fused to inspire young people to be agents of change in the world.
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