Design and Technology Teacher
Oakwood Park Grammar School
Maidstone, Kent
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April or September 2023
- Apply by:
- 28 February 2023
Job overview
Required from April or September 2023
Are you a creative, innovative thinker with a passion for Product Design? Are you passionate about working with and supporting students in design and manufacturing tasks?
Oakwood Park Grammar School is seeking a full time Design and Technology teacher to join us from January 2023 in our popular and high achieving Design and Technology department. If you are keen to have an involvement in extracurricular activities and play a full part in the life of the school community by supporting the school aims and ethos, policies then we’d love to hear from you.
The applicant for this job should have:
- Experience in teaching Design and Technology (Resistant Materials or Product Design) across a range of year groups.
- Good knowledge in CAD / CAM programs such as 3D Solidworks and Techsoft 2D Design.
- Good knowledge in using and working with a range of general workshop machinery and tools.
- Good knowledge in materials and manufacturing processes including CNC machinery.
- Health and safety knowledge in the use of workshop machinery.
Please complete the application form and attach a cover letter to the Headteacher by the closing date of Tuesday 28th February 2023. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if a suitable candidate is selected.
Oakwood Park Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with former employers and Enhanced DBS check.
Attached documents
About Oakwood Park Grammar School
Oakwood Park Grammar School is a five-form entry (usually 160 in each year) Boys’ Grammar School of approximately 1100 students, including the Sixth Form. We have a co-educational Sixth Form with a pan of 180 in each year group. Entry at 11 to the school is through the Kent Test (11+) where students sit three papers in Mathematics, English and Reasoning.
We have been on the site since 1959 and we share an attractive campus with two schools (St Augustine Academy and St Simon Stock) and a college of Further Education (Mid-Kent College). We remain committed to improving school facilities and providing high quality learning environments for our students. Our teaching and support staff are dedicated and hardworking and very loyal to the school.
Oakwood Park Grammar School has a wealth of extra-curricular activities for its students. Sport is very strong with national success in football, alongside rugby, cricket, basketball and athletics. We also cater for rowing, fencing, table tennis and climbing. Music and Drama are also popular with an annual production and brand new facilities which opened in October 2023. Other extra-curricular opportunities include robotics, debating and chess.
Academic standards are high at both GCSE and A Level. In the Sixth Form, on average, well over half of our students who apply to universities will secure offers from prestigious Russell Group universities and we regularly send students to Oxbridge colleges.
In 2024, an ungraded inspection made clear the school continues to be ‘Good’ overall by Ofsted. However, our grading of Outstanding for our Behaviour and our Sixth Form provision remains.
We are a welcoming, open school with a clear focus on developing staff, with teaching and learning at the heart of our professional development.
Headteacher
Mrs Sarah Craig
Values and vision
At OPGS, we hold firm on our responsibility to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, an exceptional standard of teaching and learning and a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities. We have high standards of behaviour and our pupils are ‘polite and courteous,’ contributing significantly to our consistently positive learning environment.
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