Head of Modern Foreign Languages
St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
Newcastle upon Tyne
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- M1-UPS3 + TLR2b £5,347
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2024
Job overview
Required from September 2024 or January 2025
Full time/permanent
"Pupils benefit from the school’s vision of ‘forming great men’ “(Ofsted February 2024)
St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School is looking to recruit, a creative, enthusiastic, and talented Head of Modern Foreign Languages to promote and inspire a love for, and excellence in languages. We are looking for someone who understands how important languages are to future success both in school and beyond.
In February 2024 Ofsted reported that “Leaders have transformed the school since the last inspection. With targeted support from the Trust, they have made the school a better place for pupils.”
This is a unique opportunity to be instrumental in the development of our languages department and in the life of our school. With over 400 boys for whom English is an additional language, we truly believe that ‘a different language is a different vision of life’ (Fellini). We rightly celebrate the wide range of home languages and cultures in our school community.
Languages have always been an important part of a St Cuthbert’s education. Russian, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, French and German have been offered and successfully taught. We currently offer French and Mandarin. However, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to review, refine, and develop the languages curriculum.
The ideal candidate will offer French and another language. However, applicants with a single language (French) specialism or other languages, in addition to French, will be fully considered. The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher with a proven track record of success and will build upon the strengths of our current MFL department, to ensure that achievement, teaching, the curriculum and leadership and management are of the highest standard, at each Key Stage.
The successful candidate will require the necessary skills and experience to develop the practice of staff within the department by providing leadership, motivation, and training.
Above all, we are looking for someone who will help our boys become great men, leading by example, raising their aspirations and achievement, and inspiring them to a love of languages.
This is an opportunity to join an impressive, all-boys Catholic School that has enjoyed a reputation as a centre of educational excellence for over one hundred and forty years.
Application forms and further information are available by following the link on our website for submission by 9.00am on Thursday 23rd May 2024.
Applications may be sent electronically or in hard copy to:
Human Resources
St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School
Gretna Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE15 7PX
or by email: recruitment@scchs.org.uk
Applications will be acknowledged by email. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
St Cuthbert’s is first and foremost a Catholic school. Applicants are not required to be practising Catholics but are expected to support and promote the school’s Catholic vision, mission and values.
The Governors of St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School, the Trustees of the Bishop Bewick Trust and the Diocese are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young persons. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, an online search will be completed for shortlisted candidates.
St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School is a member of the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust. The Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust, is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales. Company Registration No. 7841435. It is an apostolate of the Roman Catholic Church under the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Hexham & Newcastle. Registered Office: Fenham Hall Drive, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 9YH www.bishopbewickcet.org
Attached documents
About St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
- St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
- Gretna Road, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne And Wear
- NE15 7PX
- United Kingdom
Public Examination Success at St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School
The curriculum followed by students is broad and balanced at Key Stage 3 with then over 80% taking an EBacc based curriculum at GCSE. Approximately one third of students take the separate sciences achieving outstanding results. Attainment 8 scores overall and in each bucket are consistently above the national average. Similarly, Progress 8 has also been consistently above the national average with the Ebacc element particularly strong indicating the success of the Ebacc based curriculum.
At Key Stage 5 there is succession from the Key Stage 4 courses for students to follow with a broad range of both
A level and vocational based qualifications. Value added has been consistently in the top quintile in recent years.
Opportunities at St Cuthbert’s
At St Cuthbert’s we pride ourselves on our excellent intra and extracurricular STEM provision. We work closely with Newcastle University, The Reece Foundation and international engineering firms such as Cundall and Sir Robert McAlpine to produce the city wide Reece Scholarship, which enables the most able Year 12 students to have a taster of engineering as a career with both academic and real life experience. This prestigious scholarship is replicated with our Key Stage Three students; a stringent application process enables us to work with the most promising STEM graduates of the future. A greater proportion of students than ever before have left us to take up engineering or related STEM undergraduate degrees, of which there is a national shortage.
In the last two years St Cuthbert’s have become a SWIRE centre for the teaching on Mandarin on the curriculum. In 2020/21 Year 7, 8 and 9 will study the subject in the most able classes, which will lead to this highly academic subject being a GCSE option in 2021 for the first time. We partner Newcastle High School for Girls on this project, funded by the SWIRE Chinese Language Foundation. Sixth form students are able to study the subject up to HSK examinations, and staff have been offered Mandarin classes after school. In 2019 students enjoyed a trip to China as part of the program.
In addition to the outstanding day-to-day practice and the student outcomes here, our cutting edge STEM and Mandarin provision helped us acquire Word Class Schools Quality Mark in December 2019. This award was earnt by the students through their showcasing of what makes us unique, in both written and visual form and subsequently working in a team with other students across the country on a high-level project culminating in an assessment day in Reading.
School website
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/
School Prospectus
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/about/prospectus/
Ofsted inspection reports
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/documents/St-Cuthbert-High-School%20Ofsted.pdf
Diocesan inspection reports
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/documents/Final%20Section%2048%20Report.pdf
Safeguarding Policy
Link to Application forms and associated documents
https://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/our-story/work-with-us
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