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English Teacher: Leader of Whole-School Literacy and Reading

English Teacher: Leader of Whole-School Literacy and Reading

St Thomas the Apostle College

SE15 2EB, London Borough of Southwark

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Salary:
Inner London Pay Scale, MPS/UPS + TLR 2B £4,863
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2023
Apply by:
21 February 2023

Job overview

Salary: Inner London Pay Scale, MPS/UPS + TLR 2B £4,863

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

To Start: September 2023

Location: SE15 2EB, London Borough of Southwark


We are looking to appoint a motivated and inspirational Teacher of English to take a strategic responsibility for the leadership of whole school literacy and reading. You will join our Outstanding English department with long history of outstanding outcomes at KS4 and KS5.

You will work with the senior leaders responsible for teaching, curriculum and the SENDCo to ensure their work provides targeted literacy support for all learners, provides staff with up to date training on all strands of literacy and ensure a passion for reading is at the heart of our school. 

St Thomas the Apostle school is a 11-18 Catholic boys’ school with a co-educational Sixth Form in South London. We are an outstanding school and 2017 TES Secondary School of the Year winners. We pride ourselves on our high expectations of all learners. This creates a calm learning environment where teachers can teach and students can learn.

This post offers you the opportunity to develop your teaching within an outstanding setting. We offer a highly supportive environment and are committed to ensuring outstanding teaching, behaviour and achievement.

 With our expanding Sixth Form and our desire and drive to continue moving forward, this is an exciting time for you to join our team.

 We are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner who is passionate about their subject to join our team of highly skilled staff delivering outstanding lessons to our exceptional students.


Key responsibilities

• Strategically lead the school improvement plan on whole school literacy and reading.

• Work alongside curriculum leaders to ensure literacy is taught in all subjects.

• Provide training to develop disciplinary literacy.

• Coordinate the assessment of reading age across the school.

• Analyse and evaluate reading age data, ensuring intervention is in place to support pupils at various stages of reading.

• Coordinate tutor time reading programme.

• Develop whole school strategies to support pupils with most significant literacy barriers.

• Plan, implement and monitor the teaching of targeted literacy interventions. Train staff to ensure target literacy intervention addresses the specific needs of our school community.

• Oversight of the Thinking Reading and Bedrock Vocabulary Programme.

• Plan, implement and monitor a range of strategies to promote a love of reading across the school community.

• Deliver reading sessions to pupils across the school that focus on reading for pleasure.

• Plan, implement and monitor a peer reading strategy across the school.

• Create opportunities for staff and pupils to read together for pleasure.

• Use quality assurance methods to ensure all work associated with the role has the desired impact.


Benefits of working at St Thomas the Apostle:

• New modern, light and airy building

• Outstanding facilities

• Excellent student behaviour freeing up teachers to teach for the duration of each lesson

• Support for training and development

• Commitment to staff wellbeing including annual staff wellbeing day

• Excellent public transport links

• Free onsite parking

• Safe and secure cycle storage

• Free use of the school gym

• Free use of the school swimming pool

• Free lunches for staff

• Pastries on a Friday morning

• Childcare voucher scheme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Regular staff social events


Visits to the school are warmly encouraged - please contact Ellie Field at the details below to arrange.

St Thomas the Apostle College is actively seeking to increase the proportion of our workforce who come from diverse background. We particularly welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and minority ethic descent.


How to apply


To apply, you are required to complete our school application form.

Please request an application pack from Ellie Field at stac@hays.com or call Ellie on 0207 259 8770 for more information.

Your application is a direct permanent application to our school (not through agency), Hays is our recruitment partner for all permanent appointments.


-Application Deadline: ASAP / by 12 noon on Tuesday 21st February 2023

 

Please visit our website www.stac.uk.com for more information.

Please note, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited for interview. St Thomas the Apostle reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated deadline.

Our school is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. DBS check required.

About St Thomas the Apostle College

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+44 20 7639 0106

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St Thomas the Apostle school is a 11-18 Catholic boys’ school with a co-educational Sixth Form in South London. We are an Outstanding school, 2017 TES Secondary School of the Year winners, and the 3rd best secondary school in the UK (according to The Times). We pride ourselves on our high expectations of all learners. This creates a calm learning environment where teachers can teach and students can learn.

A voluntary-aided school in the Catholic tradition, St Thomas the Apostle College was founded in 1965 and welcomes students from a wide variety of backgrounds from the local area and beyond. Its Sixth Form opened in 2015.


Principal

Mr Eamon Connolly


Values and Vision

The Catholic tradition plays a huge part in the day-to-day life of St Thomas the Apostle College, with the values of mutual respect and courtesy being expected of students at all levels. This is evident in the classroom, where students are respectful, polite and hardworking and teachers are supported in maintaining these high standards.

The secondary school is dedicated to producing a broad and diverse curriculum, with students studying a wide range of subjects. Students are encouraged to be curious and inquisitive about their learning, with the expectation that they will work hard and become independent learners ready to enter the world of work.


Ofsted Report

“Teachers’ enthusiasm for their subjects, expert subject knowledge, high expectations and skillful selection of stimulating resources all combine to generate outstanding learning. The cumulative impact of three years of outstanding learning is that fewer interventions are needed in Year 11 as these students have already made so much progress.”

View St Thomas the Apostle College's latest Ofsted report

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