Head of Economics
Colfe's School
Greenwich
- Expired
- Salary:
- Appropriately generous
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 30 April 2021
Job overview
We are looking for an inspirational and dedicated teacher to lead our Economics department from September 2021. The role is an excellent opportunity for an outstanding teacher to play a key role in the academic leadership of the Senior School and an appropriately generous salary is available for this important post. The ability to teach A Level Business may be an advantage.
The successful applicant will be:
· An outstanding classroom practitioner with a passion for teaching Economics, who is able to lead by example in securing outstanding teaching and learning across the department
· A leader with a clear vision for what a first-class curriculum should look like for A level Economics in the context of recent reform, with the attention to detail required to make that vision a reality
· An effective communicator, who can establish, develop and sustain effective working relationships with a committed team of subject teachers and with other key colleagues at the school, including the Sixth Form management team
· An advocate for pupils, who has a proven track record of securing outstanding outcomes at A Level, and a determination to ensure that all pupils are inspired and enriched by their experience of Economics whilst at Colfe’s. The ideal candidate will ensure that the subject continues to enjoy a high profile in the Sixth Form, and will be proactive in promoting and developing an interest in Economics with younger year groups.
Economics is a very popular choice, invariably in the top three subjects chosen at the start of Year 12. The Department currently follows the AQA A level specifications. The department includes two full-time teachers (who also teach Business) in addition to two others who hold significant pastoral responsibilities as Head of Year 7 and Director of Sixth Form. The department has three teaching classrooms and its own dedicated office in the school’s ‘New’ Block.
The Economics Department contributes to this overall results profile with 50% of results graded A*-A and 77.3 A*-B in 2019 (the last year of exams). Colfe’s sixth formers take four subjects in Year 12, and a bespoke qualification developed in collaboration with Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, known as the GCiE (Goldsmiths’ Colfe’s Interim Examination) in each of these subjects at the end of the first year. The GCiE is verified by Goldsmiths to be equivalent in standard to AS level and recognised by UCAS. This allows academic departments to design an academic curriculum free of the constraints of the AS syllabus, whilst also providing meaningful, independently verified feedback for students, teachers and parents at the end of Year 12.
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About Colfe's School
THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL
At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;
• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;
• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;
• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;
• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.
Colfe’s School
Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools. It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652. In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.
In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school. For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.
Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London. All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site. The facilities are excellent: the school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.
Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.
Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it. It is very much a school of the present day. The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy). The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other. Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’. They are lively and willing to have a go.
Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.
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