Teacher of Classics (shared parental leave and maternity cover)
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 16 February 2023
Job overview
Westminster School has exciting opportunities for two passionate and experienced teachers of Classics to join their thriving Classics Department on a temporary basis.
As a Teacher of Classics, you will teach Latin and Greek language and literature up to A Level, teaching across a varying range of linguistic, historical and literary prescriptions. You will plan, prepare and deliver exciting and fulfilling lessons, catering to meet the educational needs of students with mixed abilities, whilst inspiring an appreciation of Classical antiquity among the next generation.
We expect you will be a well-qualified and knowledgeable individual, possessing a 2:1 bachelor's degree or above in Classics. Prior experience teaching Latin and Greek language and literature in a secondary school up to A Level is highly desirable, together with a readiness to teach Latin or Greek prose composition. Possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills, you will be able to build and maintain appropriate rapport with students, motivating and supporting them in their studies.
The two vacant positions are full-time and cover the teaching of two colleagues who will be on maternity and shared parental leave for Play Term, September-December 2023. Subject to discussion during the application process, one of the posts can be extended to the end of the Lent Term in March 2024.
Westminster is one of the UK's leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the School has a unique atmosphere.
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The deadline for applications is Thursday 16th February 2023, with interviews taking place week commencing Monday 27th February 2023.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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