Head of French
Radley College
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024 or January 2025
- Apply by:
- 9 May 2024
Job overview
Radley College is looking for an energetic Head of French to join our Modern Languages Department. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a successful, innovative department within a friendly and collegiate school community.
This position will suit someone in a similar role, wishing to manage a large department, or an experienced teacher of French looking for the next step in their career.
We have high expectations of all students and support them to achieve their potential. An experienced teacher who wishes to join a thriving boarding school will find plenty of opportunity for responsibility and career development.
Further details can be found on the school’s website: www.radley.org.uk/employment/teaching-vacancies.
For an informal chat about
the role please contact the Head of Modern Languages, Ollie Astley
(oja.astley@radley.org.uk). Deadline for applications is 1 pm on Thursday 9 May 2024. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made. Applicants are therefore encouraged to apply early. Interviews will take place on Monday 13 May 2024.
Radley College is 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.
About Radley College
Radley College is an independent school based in Oxfordshire for boys aged 13-18. It is a Church of England school.
Warden
John Moule
Values and vision
Radley College has several strategic priorities. Firstly, it seeks to foster a sense of intellectual curiosity amongst its students. The school intends to develop this through its curriculum, exchanges, trips, academic partnerships, online learning, language teaching, societies, and invited speakers.
The school’s highest priority remains its provision of effective pastoral care. It aims to, underpinned by its Christian ethos, strive to develop values, confidence, and resilience in students which will strengthen and prepare them for future challenges they face. In addition, the school aims to accomplish the goal of preparing students for later life through its provision of careers advice, university preparation, curriculum innovation, and effective links with its former pupils. At the school there is also a keenness to embrace technology when it comes to teaching.
Independent Schools Inspectorate
“Throughout the school, including the sixth form, the quality of pupils’ achievements and learning is exceptional, reflecting the challenging and stimulating curriculum, the excellent provision for pupils needing learning support, outstanding opportunities to engage in a wide range of activities, and the excellent quality of teaching. In particular, pupils think independently, develop high quality literacy and numeracy skills, and show considerable creative imagination and technique.”
View Radley College’s latest ISI report
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