Biology / Chemistry Teacher
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- GDST Scale PL1/PL2, depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2022
- Apply by:
- 8 June 2022
Job overview
The role:
This is an opportunity for an experienced Biology and/or Chemistry Teacher to join a vibrant, challenging and enormously fun teaching community in one of this country’s leading girls’ schools. Applications from ECTs are welcome.
You will provide an excellent education for all the school’s pupils by teaching Biology and/or Chemistry with expertise and enthusiasm, using an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, offering support to the learning of individual students and contributing to the school’s pastoral system.
The role requires the ability to teach the subject up to A level, along with qualified teacher status or a willingness to gain a qualification within a reasonable period.
Science at Wimbledon High School:
The Biology, Chemistry and Physics departments are all vibrant, well-resourced with a total of 10 well-equipped laboratories, and 4 full-time technicians. Biology and Chemistry are among the most popular A level options with around 35-40% of the cohort taking both subjects each year. A bioinformatics club, big data research group, KS3 STEM club and a Scientific Society are offered to our pupils. Additionally, field trips, visits and lectures, given by expert scientists currently working in their fields also form a regular part of our co-curricular programme.
About the School:
One of London’s top day schools, Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London. Our motivated students are challenged to believe in themselves within a stimulating environment and there is a ‘can-do’ attitude throughout the school, with girls involved in all sorts of clubs and activities.
Benefits
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 11.00am on Wednesday 08 June 2022.
Interviews will be held on 15 June 2022.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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