English and Drama Teacher

The Governors wish to appoint a well qualified, innovative Teacher of English and Drama to join our highly successful English Faculty.  Our team of ten consists of five full-time and five part-time fully qualified teachers of English. The Faculty’s leadership consists of a Head of Faculty and two Learning Leaders, while two other members of the teaching team also hold Learning Leader roles in other departments. The Faculty is also heavily involved in the school’s ITT, NQT and Teaching School programmes. We are a busy, vibrant, innovative and passionate team committed to becoming an outstanding English Faculty.

We are committed to building an English classroom that will produce young people who can articulate their ideas well verbally and in writing. As communication is at the centre of all our lives, we aim to equip our students with the skills to deal with an increasingly complex world. Much of our work is founded on the enjoyment and appreciation of reading. Therefore students encounter a wide range of stimulating material: fiction and non-fiction, novels, media texts, spoken language, short stories, poetry, plays and writing from other cultures. Independent reading is an important focus and students are encouraged to read widely and with discrimination. 

The Earls High School is a 1200 student, 11-16 Academy in the Borough of Dudley. It became a convertor Academy in January 2012 and one of the founding members of the Stour Vale Academy Trust (SVAT) alongside Redhill School, Stourbridge and Olive Hill Primary School in Spring 2017. Founded in 1652, the school has a long and distinguished history of service to the township of Halesowen.  We serve a diverse community with significant areas of affluence alongside pockets of deprivation within the Dudley Borough as well as nearby Sandwell and Birmingham.  

Our school motto 'Ut filii lucis fiatis' is age-old but its values continue to underpin the day-to-day work of a modern school: it roughly translates as “so that you may become the children of light”. It talks to the students about the transformative power of education, about how education can bring enlightenment through the acquisition of knowledge along with the development of self-awareness and goodness. With these attributes comes the satisfaction that will help students go on to lead happy and fulfilled lives.  We have a large and experienced staff who commit themselves to this goal on a daily basis. We want our students to experience excellence, feel cared for and care for others and be able to develop effective working partnerships with all people they meet. All our staff work in partnership with students providing both care and challenge to ensure students achieve excellence.  As a result of this approach we are successful in developing well rounded citizens who make excellent academic progress during their time with us. This is illustrated by the Progress 8 measure achieved by our students (+0.22 in 2017 and +0.19 in 2018, in both cases significantly above national average).

The school works hard to seek best practice from schools nationally and internationally. We want to be seen as a school where everyone, staff and students, is expected to grow and nobody expects to be ‘the finished article’. Educational excellence is our ultimate goal whereby we drive for the highest levels of progress and personal development deriving from a wide, enjoyable and meaningful curriculum. This makes The Earls an exciting school to work in, where relationships are good and students and staff work in partnership to achieve ambitious goals. 

For further details please see the attached documents or visit our website, www.earlshighschool.org.  

The closing date for applications is 9am on Friday, 10th May.