Part-time Geography Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Part-time Geography Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Location: Haslemere, Surrey

Closing Date: Sunday 7th November, 9pm

The Royal School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school from nursery to sixth form. The Prep School is located at Hindhead and the Senior School on a beautiful 25 acre site in Haslemere, in an area renowned for its natural beauty. The school is academically ambitious for all its pupils. As a proudly mixed ability school, the focus is on the whole child, seeking to develop their talents and sparking their intellectual curiosity. Each pupil is nurtured and challenged to be the very best they can be. Our commitment is to ensure pupils are future-ready to thrive in this rapidly changing world.

The school joined United Learning in November 2019 and there are plenty of opportunities to grow, share ideas, best practice and knowledge across our supportive network of 7,000 colleagues across the country. The Royal is a friendly place to work and staff benefit from shared curriculum resources, in-house training opportunities and bespoke personal development and career pathways.

 Pippa Smithson joined as Head in 2020 and our Senior Leadership Team is driven by a strong vision. Our philosophy of continuous improvement has led to the school enjoying a rapid period of growth, investment and development, including a new Creativity & Innovation Hub and digital roll-out of Surface Go devices to all Year 7-11 pupils.

The role

This is a maternity cover for Geography Key Stage 3 to 5. This is a great opportunity to become a role model for pupils and share your common interest of Geography, to set high standards in the classrooms to push for pupils to perform to their full potential with the final aim to prepare them for examinations. You will need to undertake the responsibility of preparing your timetabled lessons and therefore select appropriate materials and methods that suit different learning styles and speeds that you may have in the class. With this in mind, expectations for each pupil drive their subject targets which are to be closely monitored. In a fast moving school incorporating lots of modern teaching methods, the use of IT must be effective and engaging to support the digit rollout of education.

The hours of work are 17 x 45 minute periods for Geography covering KS3, 4 and A Level.  

Applications will be considered as they are received and the vacancy may therefore close earlier than advertised.

About You

The Royal School are seeking a person who is charismatic and willing to think outside the box to make their lessons as unique as possible. Someone who is hoping to take on the role as a lead and guide the students to reach their targets. The role needs someone who can give constructive criticism in a positive light to help the pupils understand where the improvement is for them to move forward in the subject. The Humanities department very closely in a team environment where ideas can be shared. A progressive mind set is encouraged at The Royal School when identifying solutions to any problems that arise. This can be helped through a range of characteristics such as great communication, positivity and collaboration. Having excellent IT skills is a great asset to your make the teaching and learning more fun in education.

Please refer to the attached job description. 

Apply by visiting the school website www.royal-school.org/about-us/work-with-us 

United Learning

The Royal School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.