Teacher of Social Sciences
Wrotham School
Kent
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- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 12 May 2024
Job overview
Job Role: Teacher of Social Sciences
Starting: September 2024
Pay: MPS/UPS
Interviews: As arranged
Closing Date: 12th May 2024
Wrotham School are seeking to appoint an outstanding teacher of Social Sciences (ECT or experienced) to join our committed, dynamic and very successful Religious Studies department within our Humanities faculty.
The successful candidate will be ambitious for young people and for themselves; creative in using new technologies or teaching approaches to help students to learn and progress; keen to continually develop their practice, sharing what works best with their team, and an enthusiastic teacher who can motivate and challenge students.
An ability to teach another Humanity may be an option.
At an exciting time for our school and department, we look forward to welcoming a dedicated and passionate teacher to our successful team.
Wrotham School is a highly successful school that is proud of the good character and behavior of its students and our supportive parents. Visitors to our school always comment on the calm and purposeful atmosphere they observe in our classrooms and communal areas. Our outstanding results are testament to the strength of our staff team and the hard work of our students.
We are a comprehensive school and students make outstanding progress at all levels Please visit our website for more information on results and achievements. In our last Ofsted inspections we were judged as good overall with outstanding elements.
We offer our staff competitive pay, with the opportunity to receive additional pay progression for outstanding performance, in a school that has found success outside of the large academy chains. We are a progressive and innovative school that provides a positive and productive place to work for teachers of all experience levels. We offer a flexible action based CPD programme that offers a personalised approach to professional development. We are committed to achieving a healthy work- life balance for all of our staff and impact assess all initiatives and actively remove unnecessary paperwork/ meetings. As a result we have a very low annual staff turnover.
We take wellbeing and welfare of staff very seriously and as well as opportunities throughout the year to have your voice heard, we also provide free lunches and breakfast cereal to all members of staff at the school as well as a coffee morning each Friday.
This post is suitable for ECT’s and we welcome their application. Equally, we also welcome applications from all ranges of experience.
About Wrotham School
Wrotham School is a highly successful comprehensive school that boasts outstanding behaviour, supportive parents and a deeply embedded culture of high expectations. It is a school where students make outstanding progress and achieve some of the highest progress and attainment scores in Kent.
The school has been recognised for its excellent work on Character Education by being awarded the prestigious School of Character Kitemark – a formal acknowledgement of the work the school has done to promote and develop good character in the school community.
Wrotham School prides itself on its low staff turnover due to our friendly and supportive staff team, career development opportunities and commitment to flexible working with a healthy work life balance.
We are a progressive and innovative school that provides a positive and productive place to work for teachers of all experience levels.
Wrotham School is part of the Character Education Trust.
Headteacher – Mr Michael Cater
Executive Headteacher – Mr Matthew Wright MA
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