Head of Chemistry
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Bury Grammar School
Bury
- Expired
- Salary:
- Dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 3 April 2018
Job overview
The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher, passionate about their subject, and willing to contribute to the wider life of a busy day school.
Please note that although this Head of Department Role is currently based in the Boys’ School at Bury Grammar Schools, you may be required to teach and work in either the boys or the girls’ school.
Bury Grammar School Boys’ chemistry department consists of 2.5 full time subject specialists and a full time chemistry technician. It is situated alongside Biology and Physics and we occupy 3 well-equipped/recently refurbished laboratories. We also have a dedicated Sixth form study room. At KS4 we follow the Edexcel IGCSE course and at A-Level we teach AQA Chemistry. Our examination results for the last few years are shown below.
As a department we run a number of extracurricular clubs including weekly science clubs and for the last 4 years we have offered Bronze and Silver CREST (a minimum of 10 or 30 hours of work respectively). To date over 70 students have achieved their Bronze CREST, with 7 Silver awards and 1 Gold award (70+ hours of post-18 research). Since 2014, we have also organised a number of Saturday morning STEM clubs.
We enter teams in the annual Salters and Chemquiz competitions, as well as the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge and The RSC Chemistry Olympiad. In terms of accreditation, we are affiliated with the Royal Society Associate Schools & Colleges scheme, the RSC’s Learn Chemistry Partnership and we are a CREST accredited school.
In terms of targeted intervention, we run weekly IGCSE and A-Level clinics in addition to a general chemistry drop-in clinic.
For more information, please see job information pack for job description/person specification.
Closing date 4th April 2018
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About Bury Grammar School
Bury Grammar School is situated in the heart of Bury, Lancashire and is widely recognised as one of the top independent schools in the North West of England. Currently there are over 1270 girls and boys on roll.
Our School is a family of independent, selective, day schools for girls and boys aged 3 to 18, which combine a strong tradition of academic excellence with the best in modern educational practice. The School has a long and rich history of excellence extending back 450 years and our staff, pupils and alumni are proud of the School’s long-standing traditions. Our modern, inclusive School community welcomes students and staff from different faiths and cultures. It is the blend of the School’s traditions along with our modern ethos that is a source of great enrichment for the whole community and is what makes the School so special.
Every one of our pupils benefits enormously from belonging both to a small school, where they are known and nurtured as an individual, while at the same time being part of our BGS family of Schools which is able to offer a huge variety of educational experiences and an excellent learning environment. Through our unique blend of single-sex education from ages 7-16 and co-education in our Pre-School, Infant School and Sixth Form, we offer the ‘best of both worlds’ for our pupils at every stage of their educational journey. Our vibrant and rigorous curriculum is designed to engage and challenge our pupils whilst fostering an intellectual curiosity, which translates into impressive academic performance.
The School is led by our Principal, Jo Anderson, who is supported by a strong and dynamic senior management team and dedicated Board of Governors. We are a member of the Girls’ School Association (GSA) and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and have been rated ‘excellent’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate.
One of our key strategic objectives is to maintain, recruit, nurture and develop first class teaching and support staff. You can be sure that as an employer we are focused on creating an outstanding workplace for all our staff so that we can attract, retain and engage talented individuals who have a desire to transform the lives of others.
A successful education is very much about team work and every member of staff at Bury Grammar School recognises that together we have the opportunity to change our pupils’ lives. Whether this is part of our fantastic catering team who provide our pupils with nutritious meals, our dedicated estates team who maintain our beautiful grounds or as a member of our inspiring teaching staff, everyone has an important part to play.
Join BGS and make a difference.
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