Teacher of History

An able and enthusiastic History graduate who is, or is interested in becoming, an inspiring teacher is required for this academically selective, coeducational North London day school from September. The successful applicant will join a large and successful department teaching full-time across the ability range from Year 7 to Year 13, including assisting pupils with university preparation. 

The successful candidate should be academically well qualified: it is expected that applicants will have an excellent History degree; a Master’s degree is a further recommendation, but is not essential. The Department has significant experience in successfully training teachers who enter the profession without formal teaching qualifications and in providing suitable opportunities for continued professional development for experienced teachers. 

Our department introduces pupils in each year to the rich historical debates at the heart of the topics we teach and show them that history is an ongoing debate about what happened in the past. This informs our teaching at each Key Stage: our message to pupils is that they are historians-in-training and by the time they reach the Sixth Form, we want them to develop a detailed and extensive knowledge of a history in which they have developed a particular interest. Whatever their level of attainment, we want our pupils to become better and better at reading and evaluating texts and images, forming persuasive arguments, and doing so independently with increasing confidence. We want to promote a love of reading history and historical fiction, and to help them develop sophisticated vocabularies.  

We share a common ethos and the atmosphere is very positive, productive, and supportive. Colleagues share expertise and resources and volunteer for extra responsibilities when necessary, including the organisation of our educational visits. All pupils in Year 9 benefit from a trip to the WW1 Battlefields in northern France to complement their classroom lessons, and there is an optional biennial trip to Berlin for Year 10 historians. In addition to historical walking tours of London, our Sixth Form historians also have the option of joining a visit to Paris to complement their A Level courses.   

There is a History Society and a Middle School History Society, both of which are vibrant and meet regularly. The Department is very well-resourced with its own regularly updated library. It has its own office and all classrooms have interactive whiteboards.