Teacher of English
Longsands Academy
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 22 May 2022
Job overview
Full time, 37 hours per week
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, inspirational Teacher of English at Longsands Academy, to join a department with a strong record at all levels. The successful candidate will teach throughout the age and ability range. Applications from ECTs will be welcomed. Longsands has a strong track record of supporting and retaining ECTs by ensuring excellent mentoring, a supportive culture and many opportunities for development and involvement in wider school activities.
We are a large and diverse department and the successful applicant would be working alongside a leadership team who believe staff wellbeing is the key to success. The successful applicant must be an enthusiastic and ambitious specialist with an aptitude for leadership, strengths across all key stages and the ability to deliver outstanding English lessons. In return we can offer you the support of an enthusiastic, experienced, and collaborative department. We have a thriving Sixth Form cohort in English, teaching English Literature, English Literature and English Language and Film A level courses. You will therefore have the opportunity to gain experience of teaching English at Key Stage Five or build on prior experience of A-Level teaching.
The English department is continually reviewing and developing strategies to improve attainment, as well as cultivating a love and passion for English with a particular emphasis on raising student engagement levels at all key stages. We are looking for someone who is willing to share and help develop ideas to ensure that students enjoy their lessons and make progress as a result.
The successful candidate must be an excellent practitioner who can support and challenge all students to achieve their full potential. In return we can offer you the support of an enthusiastic, experienced and collaborative department.
We value Continuing Professional Development as a department and strive to ensure every member of the department has the opportunity to experience external training, as well as using our department meeting time to deliver impactful and inspiring CPD. We have longstanding partnerships in the wider subject community, for example the ‘Let’s Think in English’ programme, which all teachers in the department have the chance to be actively involved in.
Longsands Academy is a successful 11-18 comprehensive school in St Neots, a market town with good facilities, within easy reach of Cambridge and with excellent transport links to London. There is a fully equipped Fitness Suite available for staff use.
Interested in applying?
If this is something you’re interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role to apply.
The closing date for all applications is 22nd May 2022.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff, we are also passionate about cultivating our own talented workforce. At Astrea we believe that we can provide these unique roles by providing a huge opportunity to join a dynamic team working across the entire organisation. With over twenty-five academies within the group across South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, the Trust continues to grow and inspire beyond measure.
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About Longsands Academy
Longsands Academy, part of the Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and its surrounding area. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging, purposeful and supportive environment in which all of our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence and become responsible, well rounded citizens.
A Welcome from our Director for Secondary Education
Longsands is brimming with potential. The academy is at the heart of the community and has pledged to provide a rich, broad and varied education to all the pupils it serves. The academy and Trust are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture, influenced by Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion and Tom Bennett. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all, with an underpinning philosophy that ‘education for all should confer the benefits associated with education for the rich’ (Michael Young).
We have recently launched the Astrea behaviour curriculum, where behaviour expectations and routines are explicitly taught and deliberately practised. The creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.
Longsands Academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust and since joining the Trust in 2018 has developed a strong curriculum, good teaching and effective pupil support. If you are aligned to our mission and values, have a strong track record of improving young people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you. We fully recommend that you take the opportunity to make an informal visit prior to making your application to see the school for yourself.
With best wishes,
Richard Tutt
Director for Secondary Education
Values and vision
The curriculum, at Longsands Academy, is defined as ‘the knowledge, skills & values students are expected to learn, the units and lessons that are taught, the planned sequence of instruction, the resources used to support teaching and the assessments used to evaluate learning’.
At Longsands Academy, our curriculum is designed to fulfil our core purpose which aims to secure the best possible experience, learning and outcomes for each young person for whom we have responsibility. As such, we believe that students are entitled to be immersed in ‘the best that has been thought and said’ which is best achieved through a broad and balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum and a strong personal development programme. In addition, our provision is tailored so that all students, whatever their background and ability, can follow suitable pathways, from Years 7 through to Year 13, which maximise their chances to progress their learning and achieve academic excellence and success in public examinations, as well as promoting emotional wellbeing and mental health, enabling them to successfully access the next chapter of their lives.
Our commitment to promoting an ethos of learning for life and work throughout all aspects of the Academy as well as our provision of a wide range of extra-curricular and personal development opportunities aims to instil our core values in students, including care and respect for self and others, honesty, creativity, clear and open communication, high aspirations and the determination to fulfil them and strong relationships and shared goals achieved through teamwork.
Find out more here - Longsands Prospectus
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