Classics Teacher
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January/April 2024
- Apply by:
- 29 October 2023
Job overview
Wimbledon High School is looking for a knowledgeable and well-qualified Classics Teacher to join our vibrant and supportive Classics Department.
You will teach Latin to students across the school, delivering lessons that meet our students' needs and expectations, facilitating progress and raising levels of attainment in the subject. You will work with colleagues to create a positive culture of pupil welfare and behaviour, supporting and contributing to school safeguarding whilst helping to promote the well-being of pupils.
You will be an enthusiastic, positive and hardworking Teacher with a passion for the classical world and the Latin language. You will possess Qualified Teacher Status and will provide previous experience of teaching Latin at KS3, KS4 and KS5. The ability to teach Classical Greek and/or Classical Civilisation to A Level is also desirable but not essential.
Classics at Wimbledon High School
There are three full-time and two part-time members of the Classics Department, who teach Latin (Years 7 – 13), Classical Greek (Years 10 – 13) and Classical Civilisation (Years 12 & 13). We currently have two Latin GCSE groups in Year 11 and two in Year 10, as well as a strong A Level cohort with healthy numbers in years 12 and 13.
The Department has a long history of running a wide variety of extra-curricular activities, ranging from Classics Clubs (‘It’s Mythical’ for year 7-9; ‘Greek c’est chic’ [an introduction to Classical Greek] for year 9 and ‘It’s Classical’, a Senior Classics society, for years 10-13.), to numerous day trips (e.g. to visit museums, galleries or see theatrical productions) and residential trips to the Mediterranean.
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.
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
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- 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 to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date is Sunday 29 October 2023.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 2 November 2023.
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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