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Design Technology (Product Design and Textiles) Teacher

Design Technology (Product Design and Textiles) Teacher

Wimbledon High School

Wimbledon

Salary:
Competitive salary plus benefits
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2019 or earlier
Apply by:
25 June 2018

Job overview

Wimbledon High School explores Design Technology in a fun, creative and functional way and we now have an opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative teacher to ensure students fulfil their potential.

Teaching with expertise and enthusiasm, you will develop ways to encourage, challenge and inspire pupils, utilising an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources. You will also offer support to the learning of individual students and contribute to the school’s pastoral system.

The ideal candidate will have teaching qualifications to degree level, or the equivalent in either Product Design or Textiles and have an excellent record of classroom teaching. They should also have a clear philosophy about how students learn and progress. An ability to use ICT and CAD/CAM within Design and Technology and offer KS3 Product Design and Textiles is desirable and a willingness to learn new skills would be advantageous.

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

· Childcare vouchers, 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. 

Closing date is 9am Tuesday 26 June 2018. 

Interviews will be thereafter.  

Please note that promising candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, so early application is recommended.

Wimbledon High 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 past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

About Wimbledon High School

Wimbledon High School GDST is a popular and academically very successful school.

We are a centre of excellence, demonstrating thought leadership and taking a lead in girls’ education. Our innovative pastoral programme, GROW, is at the core of what we do and what we offer: this is above all a friendly and happy school. 

The first school to hold a ‘failure week’ back in 2012, we follow this up every year with initiatives to encourage risk-taking and resilience. The guru of GRIT, Angela Duckworth, visited Wimbledon High in 2016, and Steve Biddulph in 2017. We believe this ethos, together with an expansive co-curricular and partnerships programme, leads to unselfconscious students, comfortable in their own skin and highly active in all areas of school life, with student leaders organising annual Happiness Festivals and Clever Clogs conferences. 

Academically, we have truly embraced cross-curricular learning, with two scientists in residence working across Juniors and Seniors to foster STEAM. The skills of problem solving, creativity and collaboration, together with the girls’ experiences of finding their voices and having their say, prepares them for what is likely to be an ever changing work environment and jobs which we cannot yet imagine. Our Year 13 stride out of WHS ready to take on the world and shake it up.    

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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Applications closed