Director of Teaching for Humanities

We have an exciting opportunity for a Director of Teaching for Humantities  to lead practitioners  in our school, where all colleagues play their part and contribute to whole school improvement.

You will inspire your fellow teachers with your exceptional classroom practise, develop resources, assessment materials and work with your line manager to carefully sequence the curriculum based on a core set of principles, that will ensure in your lesson and across the department, our children receive the very best teaching.

This role celebrates and motivates great teachers, especially ones who lead others to develop themselves, it recognises the skills, experience and qualities of school staff at every level, serving to embed and extend teaching and learning that impacts positively on learners.

Help our pupils be the best versions of themselves they can be, by inspiring them and nurturing a love of learning.

If you embody these values and have high expectations, you will be successful working as part of the Teaching and Learning Team. If you are driven, and passionate about teaching and learning then we want to hear from you!

Overall Purpose of the Job:

You will lead on establishing exceptional teaching, work with the Director of Studies for Humanities to develop a principled, coherent curriculum, that is expertly resourced and taught. With pupil books that demonstrate confident, sequenced curriculum delivery with key skills and knowledge embedded systematically. Inspiring our children through the departmental and classroom environment, ensuring assessment informs teaching at a granular (question by question) level and ensures no child is left behind.

Woldgate is a school with a distinct vision for education. Our view of an outstanding school is based on shared values, where every child is known and cared for as an individual. To cultivate this, we build a supportive and caring community, where a child’s talents can grow through academic study and the opportunity to participate in the many activities, productions and visits that make Woldgate School unique. We are a school with a positive, welcoming, warm atmosphere, in which pupils take pride in their achievements and where each individual pupil achieves academically through consistently good teaching, in an environment that seeks to nurture their love of learning and challenges them to excel.

We can offer:

• An exciting role with the opportunity to develop and progress within a supportive, experienced and committed SLT
• The opportunity to make a difference on a whole school perspective
• A supportive governing body, who are committed to raising standard
• A school with a strong community ethos, situated at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds, but within commuting distance from the historic City of York, Leeds and Hull
• Motivated staff and students, who take great pride in our school

Full details and an application form are available at www.woldgate.net

Completed applications should be forwarded to Lucy Bailey, Personnel Officer, lbailey@woldgate.net

Closing Date: 9am Friday 21st May 2021

The position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Woldgate School as part of Wolds Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all out staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1074. A DBS enhanced disclosure that is satisfactory to us will be a condition of employment.