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Teacher of Science

Teacher of Science

St Ivo Academy

St Ives, Cambridgeshire

Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
April or September 2019
Apply by:
31 January 2019

Job overview

Teacher of Science

Required from April or September 2019

Full time, permanent post

[MPS/UPS]

We are seeking a well qualified, passionate Teacher of Science to join our successful and ambitious department. This is a full time, permanent position, which would suit an NQT or an experienced colleague. St Ivo School is one of the largest Academies in Cambridgeshire. Awarded 'Good' by Ofsted across all areas in our summer 2016 inspection our school is simply a great community in which to work and thrive.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic individual who will engage, challenge and motivate our students. In return, we will offer you the chance to join a strong and experienced team, enabling you to develop your own skills and enhance your career development through a wealth of CPD opportunities. A comprehensive induction and support package is available for all new staff.    

Science at St Ivo sees good levels of achievement at all key stages (our GCSE results in summer 2018 included 72% grade 4+ for Combined Science, and 60% of Triple Science grades at 7+). There is also a large uptake of for single Sciences at A-Level, where results are again well above the national average (including 53% A*A in Chemistry summer 2018). Our departmental staff are all provided with the opportunity to teach across the full age and ability range, and expected to specialise post-16.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post would be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory medical and employment references.

St Ives is a beautiful and ancient riverside market town enjoying the benefits of a superb location in rural Cambridgeshire: centrally located next to the A14 and within easy reach of the county towns of both Cambridge and Peterborough. Visits are most welcome from potential applicants.

To apply for this vacancy access our website www.stivoschool.org/job-vacancies or contact hr@stivoschool.org for an application pack.  

Closing date: 31 January 2019 (9.00a.m.) 

Interviews: to be held week beginning 4 February 2019 (shortlisted candidates will be informed of the exact date)

The school reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window (if applicable).

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About St Ivo Academy

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St Ivo is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. We have around 1700 students with around 300 in our Sixth Form. The school is 70 years old and is proud of its place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work, from supporting students preparing for Oxbridge through to working with the most vulnerable St Ivo embraces everyone.

We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.

We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.


What we offer


  • Huge support and progression opportunities
  • A knowledge rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional T&L approach built around Rosenshine and TLAC
  • Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
  • Excellent support from Astrea central team colleagues
  • Opportunity to teach up to A Level
  • A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
  • Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
  • Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
  • Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/chase them at all)
  • No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching, helping you to continuously develop
  • Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region
  • Opportunity to complete NPQs
  • An unrivalled professional progression model
  • A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire


What we are looking for


  • Highly effective professionals with excellent knowledge in their area of expertise
  • Colleagues who are aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
  • Colleagues who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.


We look forward to hearing from you.  

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