Teacher of Geography (full-time)
The King's School Canterbury
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- DOE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 19 May 2024
Job overview
To start September 2024 or January 2025
We seek to appoint a highly qualified and motivated person to teach Geography throughout the School. The Geography Department at King’s comprises six members of staff based in a self-contained building in the centre of the school.
The successful candidate will be expected to be able to teach at every level – from Shells (Year 9) to university entrance (including Oxbridge). The Department has a diverse group of staff with a wide range of expertise beyond the subject, including in teaching Sport, Information Technology and Geology.
Apart from working hard to achieve outstanding examination results, the department’s teachers contribute widely to school life – running sports teams, contributing to King’s Week (the annual summer Arts festival) and running the sixth form club. All look after tutees and fulfil weekly house duties.
The post is suitable for a person who is a fine communicator and who combines academic excellence, energy, enthusiasm and experience with good humour, administrative skill, patience, and flexibility. We work hard but enjoy ourselves and get on well as a team with an open-door policy. The successful applicant will be able to share and inspire a genuine love of Geography, teaching all year groups from Shell to the 6a year.
Accommodation may be available for the first two years of teaching at King’s and there are many opportunities to get involved in this busy boarding and day school.
Applications should be submitted online through the King’s School website Opportunities - The King's School, Canterbury (kings-school.co.uk), and should include a CV and covering letter as soon as possible, and by 19 May 2024 at the latest.
If you have any difficulties accessing the internet please contact recruitment@kings-school.co.uk
Those considering applying but requiring more information, can contact the Head of Geography, Miss Freyja Dolan, for an informal discussion: fsd@kings-school.co.uk.
The King’s school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates.
All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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About The King's School Canterbury
THE KING’S SCHOOL is a leading independent co-educational boarding school, situated in the heart of the historic cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent. The precincts of Canterbury Cathedral are part of a world heritage site, a centre of pilgrimage and study, and host to over one million visitors each year from many different cultures. This international dimension deeply influences the life of the city and the school.
The origins of King’s date back to the arrival of St Augustine in 597 AD and the school’s Christian tradition remains at its heart although pupils and staff subscribe to many different faiths and beliefs and none. Embracing this diversity, there is a desire to foster fairness, tolerance, courage, perseverance, mutual respect and understanding. The Benedictine tradition of developing mind, body and spirit within a community given to hospitality still influences the life of the Cathedral and the school lives out its life in that context. Thus, academic excellence and scholarship take their place alongside the school’s commitment to physical and cultural endeavour. Sport is strong, with a number of boys’ and girls’ teams at national level. Music and drama are outstanding, both having the finest traditions and producing performances of the highest standards. King’s Week, the school’s own Festival of Creative and Performing Arts, offers well over 100 events and attracts thousands of visitors each summer.
The curriculum at King’s is based upon strong academic roots. It emphasises and relies upon what is best in traditional school education: scholarly excellence, supported by a caring pastoral and tutorial system, and a wide-ranging co-curricular programme. The curriculum is continually adapting and reacting to the changing demands of modern education: new subjects are added, new teaching techniques adopted, and there is an increasing awareness of the need to provide programmes of study that match individual needs and skills. The school does not gauge its success by exam results alone but by broader measures of educational attainment and personal development, helping pupils to achieve their potential and equipping them to play an active and responsible role in society as young adults.
Our family of schools comprises The King’s School, Canterbury (KSC), The Junior King’s School (JKS), and the International College, all in Canterbury, with an international school in Shenzhen opened in September 2019. At KSC there are over 860 pupils, split 50-50 boys-girls, of whom about 80% are boarders. There are six boys’ boarding houses, seven girls’ boarding houses and three mixed day houses. Junior King’s occupies a fine rural site on the banks of the River Stour, in Sturry, two miles from Canterbury. There are over 350 pupils at Junior King’s of whom 20% are boarders.
The King’s School occupies various sites around the Cathedral and its precincts. Many teaching departments and the majority of houses are in the beautiful ancient buildings around Green Court and Mint Yard on the north side of the Cathedral. To the east of the Cathedral the St Augustine’s Abbey site is home to five boarding houses, a medieval refectory, and the magnificent neo-Gothic school library containing over 30,000 items. There are two major sites for sport: Birley’s, and the Recreation Centre, both within walking distance of the school, with rowing at Westbere Lakes in Sturry. The King’s School Malthouse Theatre opened in April 2019 with a 350-seat auditorium, studios, teaching, dance and rehearsal spaces.
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