Director of Maths
Durham Academy
Durham, County
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L10-14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2025
- Apply by:
- 17 March 2025
Job overview
Leadership Scale Range 10-14
We are looking for an enthusiastic Teacher of Maths to join our Academy and fast developing Maths department. With responsibility for improving the quality of teaching and learning, within your own department first, and Academy wide secondly, you will be accountable for ensuring the very highest learning experience for all pupils.
You will play a key role in our Teaching and Learning team, leading on high quality and bespoke inset, coaching individual teachers, leading by example with early career and trainee teachers, and working with the senior team to improve Academy wide strategies and policy. The post will provide an exciting and challenging opportunity for an ambitious practitioner wishing to develop their career and make a real impact on further driving up attainment and progress. The ideal candidate will be an expert teacher of Maths who is familiar with evidence informed teaching practices and likely to have had departmental leadership experience.
We are extremely excited to be welcoming our new build in September 2026, a fabulous opportunity for all our community. Exciting times for Durham Academy and the future.
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About Durham Academy
- Durham Academy
- Bracken Court, Ushaw Moor, Durham
- County Durham
- DH7 7NG
- United Kingdom
In January 2023 we are delighted that Durham Academy has become part of the ALP family of schools. We are committed to establishing ourselves as an excellent school. In order to make this a reality we are focused on ensuring that students are fully supported, yet challenged to push themselves beyond what they think they are capable of. We pride ourselves on being a fully inclusive and truly comprehensive school built on traditional principles and high standards where ‘every child matters’.
Our driving aims are to develop a school community where our students are:- Confident
- Ambitious
- Respectful
We aim to prepare all in our care to leave the school fully equipped to meet the challenges they may face, and with a sense of service to their communities. We value our positive relations between staff and students and are proud of our friendly and purposeful atmosphere.
We have an extremely positive ethos, with very strong pastoral and academic guidance and a real emphasis on learning. We pride ourselves on delivering high class support, care and welfare for all our students. This school is, and will always be, fully inclusive and puts the students at the very centre of all that we do.
We believe that Durham Academy is a happy, safe and enjoyable place to be with a purposeful atmosphere. We also want the school to be at the very heart of the local community and to be the school of choice of all who live here. The learning environment we provide allows students to grow and develop academically, socially and personally into responsible, caring and confident young people.
We seek to provide the best possible educational experience and outcomes for every child, where students make excellent progress and secure their most appropriate destination when they leave. We value the individual differences of our students, encourage them to succeed in everything they do. We strive to provide excellent quality of education, fostering the very best relationships, having a personalised and enriched curriculum, having the highest aspirations for all our students and collaborating widely with a range of partners.
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