Teacher of Science
St Ivo Academy
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Apply by:
- 22 May 2022
Job overview
Contract Type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Working Pattern Full time
Hours per Week 32.5
Maternity or Permanent post available
St Ivo Academy has an exciting opportunity for a Teacher of Science to join their team!
We wish to recruit an effective professional who demonstrates thorough curriculum knowledge, can teach and assess effectively, take responsibility for professional development and has students who achieve well.
The Science department consists of 14 experienced teachers who are passionate about their specialist subjects. We also have an excellent, highly qualified technician team who are able to provide practicals and offer advice to support teachers in the classroom. Teachers have the opportunity to teach across the full range of Key Stage 3-5, dependent upon experience.
We offer both Combined and Separate Science GCSEs (with Edexcel) and Biology, Chemistry and Physics at A Level (with AQA). The department is highly motivated, dedicated and committed to improving the quality of teaching and learning for all students.
As our Teacher of Science, you will be:
• Inspire trust and confidence in students and colleagues
• Build team commitment with colleagues, and in the classroom engage and motivate students
• Demonstrate analytical thinking to improve the quality of students' learning
• Teach allocated students by planning their teaching to achieve progression of learning through
• Understanding and applying effective classroom management
• Understanding and applying a range of teaching strategies
We are looking for individuals who have:
• Proven experience of teaching at KS3, KS4 with excellent classroom management skills
• Proven experience of teaching at KS5
• Effective classroom teacher
• Qualified teacher status
About Us
St Ivo is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. We have around 1750 students with around 300 in our Sixth Form. The school is over 60 years old and is proud of its place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work. From supporting students preparing for Oxbridge through to working with the most vulnerable St Ivo embraces everyone.
The rapport between staff and students has been central to our success over the years. St Ivo is a happy place to work and to teach. Students here are keen to learn and are well behaved. We are an active and dynamic community who see learning in all aspects of our work: lessons, tutor work, clubs, extra-curricular activities and trips.
St Ives is a beautiful and ancient riverside market town enjoying the benefits of a superb location in rural Cambridgeshire: centrally located next to the A14 and within easy reach of the county towns of both Cambridge and Peterborough.
Astrea Academy Trust is fully committed to being diverse and inclusive workforce where together we can embrace each other’s unique individuality, background and heritage. We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ and all our application forms hide your personal information so we can focus solely on your experience, skills and qualities.
We believe that by reflecting and representing the communities and people we serve, we will better and further the life chances of our pupils.
In return, we can offer you:
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexible working opportunities from your first day
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Continued professional development and training opportunities
• Free on-site parking
Closing Date Sunday 22 May 2022
Interview Date: To be confirmed
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 or visit our website
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
All queries should be directed via email to recruitment@astreaacademytrust.org
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About St Ivo Academy
St Ivo is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. We have around 1700 students with around 300 in our Sixth Form. The school is 70 years old and is proud of its place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work, from supporting students preparing for Oxbridge through to working with the most vulnerable St Ivo embraces everyone.
We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that 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
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
What we offer
- Huge support and progression opportunities
- A knowledge rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional T&L approach built around Rosenshine and TLAC
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- Excellent support from Astrea central team colleagues
- Opportunity to teach up to A Level
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
- Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
- Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/chase them at all)
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching, helping you to continuously develop
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region
- Opportunity to complete NPQs
- An unrivalled professional progression model
- A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire
What we are looking for
- Highly effective professionals with excellent knowledge in their area of expertise
- Colleagues who are aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
- Colleagues who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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