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History Teacher with Politics

History Teacher with Politics

Bishop Wordsworth's School

Wiltshire

  • £26,823 - £41,300 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
MPS / UPS
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01/09/2021
Apply by:
15 May 2021

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our popular and successful department and become a member of our supportive team.  Our outstanding examination results across GCSE and A-level reflect an engaging curriculum experience and a commitment to high quality teaching for all students to enable them to reach their potential.


We are looking for an enthusiastic and energising full time History teacher (NQT or experienced) with a real drive and enthusiasm for the subject, together with the motivation and subject knowledge to be able to challenge and inspire. There may also be the opportunity to teach Politics at A Level for the right candidate. The successful candidate must be a team player and will be expected to take an active involvement in the department and in school life in general. The ability to teach History & possibly Politics up to KS5 is essential. You will be teaching in an environment where the pupils are actively engaged, want to learn and where there is minimum disruption in lessons.


We will offer you:

• A comprehensive program of CPD

• An engaging and inspiring Head of Department where wellbeing is key

• The support of a highly experienced friendly team

• Well-motivated and able students

• Engaging curriculum experience 

• Extra-curricular and international trips and visits

• Access to onsite sport facilities

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Teachers’ Pension Scheme


For further details and an application form please visit the school website 

http://www.bws-school.org.uk/The_School/Vacancies/. If you wish to have the opportunity of an informal discussion prior to submitting an application form, please contact Miss Vicki Brennan (Head of History) vab@bishopwordsworths.org.uk, Mrs Pippa Anders (Head of Politics) pa@bishopwordsworths.org.uk,  or Mrs Annie Lloyd-Gilmour (HR Manager) alg@bishopwordsworths.org.uk Applications are accepted by post and email.


Bishop Wordsworth’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other relevant re-employment checks including satisfactory references and medical clearance



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About Bishop Wordsworth's School

Bishop Wordsworth's School is a unique school in a unique place. Our founder, Bishop John Wordsworth intended that his school should provide a centre of academic excellence in the heart of Salisbury. Since 1890 Bishop’s has fulfilled that mission and today we educate 1,176 students aged between 11 and 18 and which include approximately 130 girls in our now fully co-ed sixth form. Under the shadow of the Cathedral spire our eclectic buildings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, reflecting the school’s heritage. This creates a very special atmosphere in which students are conscious, on a daily basis, of their part in a long tradition of academic endeavour.

The school has remained true to its founder’s traditions by following three basic aims:

•To encourage all our students to develop their potential to the full by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement;

•To develop in all our students the integrity and the means to face confidently the challenges of a fast changing world;

•To inspire all our students to lead happy, purposeful and responsible lives.

Bishop’s enjoys a hard earned reputation as one of the finest schools in the country. The school is well known for its traditions of excellence, its strong links with the Church of England and the Cathedral, and its sense of pride in the school community. It became an Academy School in March 2011, enhancing its reputation for independence and outstanding quality in education. 

Girls were welcomed to the Bishop’s Sixth Form from September 2020 and they now make up around 30% of the 400 Year 12 and 13 students that are on our roll. Standards are very high throughout, both in the curriculum and elsewhere and the young women and men of the sixth form provide outstanding leadership for the rest of the school.  Almost all of our students progress to the most competitive universities, with some also securing high calibre degree apprenticeship positions.

Boys take an 11+ selection test for admission to Bishop’s. Academic standards are very high and are duly recognized as such by OfSTED, DfE and the media, but excellence permeates all other areas of school life. School Sport is exceptionally strong, and the traditions in Music and Performing Arts are impressive. The school is characterised by a culture of challenging students to do their best while, at the same time, offering them the support that they need to do really well. Older students are asked to take leadership responsibilities and operate as role models and mentors for those in lower years.

We place great importance on delivering an all round education for all of our students.  Bishop’s enjoys an incomparable environment in the shadow of the highest cathedral spire in England, and many major school events take place in the Cathedral during the school year. Facilities for learning and teaching are already excellent, and further development of the school site continues.

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