Head of Design & Technology
Bexley Grammar School
Bexley
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April or September 2017
- Apply by:
- 1 February 2017
Job overview
We seek to appoint a full-time, well-qualified and dynamic Head of Design & Technology from April or September 2017 to lead a successful and highly motivated department.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate with a vision for the increasing relevance of Design and Technology skills in our rapidly-changing world. The successful candidate will offer skills under the wide umbrella of Design Technology but will have particular expertise to lead the department in Resistant Materials and make cross-curricular STEM links. The candidate will have a proven experience of strong teaching, working successfully with students of a range of abilities across all three key stages.
Salary: Main/Upper Pay Scale (including OLW) - TLR B
Bexley Grammar School is an oversubscribed, high-achieving, coeducational selective school with Academy Status. As an IB world school with excellent resources, a thriving Sixth Form, Specialist College Status in Languages and a wealth of extra-curricular activities, this school provides an exciting and enriching educational experience for all. In September 2017, our Sixth Form will become fully IB (International Baccalaureate), having taught the IB alongside A levels for over a decade.
Further details about the school and an application form are available on the school website (www.bexleygs.co.uk).
Closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 1st February 2017.
Bexley Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.
Bexley Grammar School
Danson Lane,
Welling,
Kent,
DA16 2BL
A Specialist Language College and IB World School
Tel: 020 8304 8538
e-mail: enquiries@bexleygs.co.uk
Headteacher: Mr S C Elphick
intellect, empathy, courage developing compassionate leaders
About Bexley Grammar School
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Everyone who visits BGS notices the warmth of the relationships between students and staff in a vibrant community.
Bexley Grammar School is an oversubscribed, high achieving, coeducational selective school, rated as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in October 2022. We stretch our students with a challenging curriculum including two foreign languages and all three separate sciences at GCSE. We raise aspirations, grow confidence and develop young people into compassionate leaders. Our school motto translates as “to strive for excellence”.
About 50% of our students are non White British and over 20% have a first language other than English as their mother tongue. Although our pupil premium numbers are low compared to national averages they are high compared to other grammar schools and our school deprivation indicator puts us above the 40th percentile for all schools nationally.
We all learn best when we are happy, safe, busy, inspired and valued as individuals; every student is encouraged to choose from a startling array of extra-curricular activities, many of them rooted in our vibrant and competitive house system. These activities help students develop as individuals and as members of teams; they also provide numerous opportunities for leadership. We participate in World Challenge, Young Enterprise, the Jack Petchey Award and numerous other initiatives; our Language Leaders and Sports Leaders work with primary school children; there are clubs for everything from cheerleading to chess or from STEM club to Archery and if something is missing, students are encouraged and supported to start it.
There is a full programme of sports fixtures, concerts and plays during the year, an art exhibition and the annual musical production of near West End quality. A typical academic year clocks up about seventy day visits run by all subject areas in addition to a wide range of residential trips both in the UK and all over the world - typically 20 overseas trips in a given academic year.
Most students continue into our thriving Sixth Form, which plays a key role in leading the rest of the student body. All students follow the International Baccalaureate (IB) in the Sixth Form. The IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) is a full and well-balanced course which develops independence and depth of learning while nurturing the personal qualities needed for success at university and in a career. Our IB students gain places at top universities, including the highest rate of Oxford and Cambridge entry of any school in the London Borough of Bexley.
Please see the school website for more information about our lively community.
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