English Teacher
Northwood College
Hillingdon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2023
- Apply by:
- 12 December 2022
Job overview
An enthusiastic and engaging English teacher is required to play a key role in our academic community.
You will be joining an English Department which is well-resourced and experienced. Many girls take English Literature at A Level, and we are delighted that every year, students take places at Russell Group and Oxbridge universities.
You will teach at both KS3 and GCSE level, with A Level being desirable. Commitment to wider school life is expected.
You will be, above all, passionate about English literature and language and ready to make a mark on our vibrant school community. You will be eager to encourage students to find their voice through creative and persuasive writing, public speaking and debating, and determined to foster in all students a love of reading and literary scholarship.
The contract is for two terms initially with potential for a permanent appointment.
The working hours are full or part time and can be discussed at or prior to interview.
About the School:
Northwood College for Girls is an independent, academically selective day school for approximately 860 girls aged 3-18. We aim to empower each NWC girl with the knowledge, insight and motivation to enter adult-hood as a conscientious, ambitious, confident and happy member of society; one who is equipped to turn challenge into opportunity, to embrace change and innovation, to maintain a lifelong love of learning and to succeed in a path that is most advantageous to her individual strengths and aspirations.
Northwood College for Girls is at an exhilarating moment in its evolution with exciting new buildings and further school development projects around the corner. The successful candidate will be similarly ambitious for the school, and for the English Department, in particular.
Benefits:
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Family friendly policies
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension scheme
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and to apply, please click the apply button.
Applications must be received by 4pm on Monday 12 December 2022.
Early applications are encouraged.
Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews may occur at any stage.
Northwood College for Girls and the GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post and online checks, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Northwood College
"Northwood College is EXCELLENT in every category" - ISI inspection report, March 2012.
Northwood College is an independent day school for girls, which was founded in 1878 in Central London. By 1892 it had moved to its present site on Maxwell Road. Careful, planned development over the decades has ensured that the College has facilities which enable it to provide a high quality of education appropriate to modern needs. Further development is outlined in the school's strategic building plan over the next ten-year period.
The completion of a new Performing Arts block, comprising drama studio, recital hall, three teaching rooms including an ICT suite of 16 MAC computers, 10 smaller practice rooms, offices, assembly area and conservatory, in October 2004, marked the beginning of this development. Two new ICT suites opened in September 2005, providing four suites throughout the school plus a mobile bank of laptops. A new Early Years Centre, called Bluebelle House, containing 14 PCs for Nursery and Reception classes, opened in April 2009. In addition, there are approximately 60 interactive classboards.
Our Ethos
Teaching at Northwood College is a very rewarding and enjoyable experience. Girls are of above average ability, motivated and keen to learn. They come from a wide variety of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and all the world’s major religions are represented by the girls – as well as a number of the minor faiths. The atmosphere at Northwood College is unique. Relationships between girls and between girls & staff are excellent. We are an extremely harmonious community that places great emphasis on valuing the individual and expecting the highest standards of behaviour in order to maintain the principles of mutual respect, tolerance and consideration for others which characterise our community. There are approximately 750 girls aged 3-18 on roll, with approximately 100 in the Sixth Form.
As girls are able, the pace of teaching is brisk. Our unique “Thinking Skills” initiative challenges us all to consider the way we teach so that we enable our girls to be able to think critically and creatively, and thus help to prepare them for the rigours of the future. Staff are expected to be committed fully to this programme and training is provided in support of this.
We believe that it is important for every girl to develop her individual talents – whether academic, musical, dramatic, artistic, sporting or organisational. Every girl, from our youngest nursery pupil to our most sophisticated sixth former, is valued for her own unique contribution to the school community.
We encourage girls to recognise their own achievements and those of others. Girls display mutual respect and understanding. Initiative, independence, social responsibility and concern for others are highly valued. We offer a strong system of pastoral care which ensures that every girl feels confident and secure. The College has a warm, friendly atmosphere, and older girls take opportunities to help younger ones.
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