Head of English
St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
Newcastle upon Tyne
- Expired
- Salary:
- L6 - L10 (£47,735 - £52,723)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2021
- Apply by:
- 10 May 2021
Job overview
(This is a readvertisement. Previous applicants need not reapply)
St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School is seeking to appoint an outstanding English teacher to lead our English department. Our extremely successful English department aims to equip our pupils and students for the future and inspire a love of literature. We deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum, ranging from studying the language of technology to the more traditional literary canon, all of which is underpinned by first-class teaching. The English team is led by the head of English with two additional key stage leaders.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about the English curriculum and how this can be taught in an inspiring way to maximise outcomes, whilst both instilling and developing a love for the subject. We are looking for someone who can enable the boys to see the relevance of literature to their lives and modern concerns, someone who will inspire our pupils and spark their passion for the subject. Above all, we are looking for someone who will help our boys become better men and show them the difference that English can make in the world. The ability to extend pupils’ engagement beyond the school day, through co-curricular activities would be an advantage.
This is an opportunity to join a well-established and aspirational department in an outstanding, all-boys Catholic School that has enjoyed a reputation as a centre of educational excellence for over one hundred years. We welcome applications from both experienced leaders and outstanding English teachers ready for the challenges of a leadership post.
Application forms and further information are available by following the link on our website for submission by 12noon Monday 10th May 2021.
Applications may be sent electronically or in hard copy to:
Human Resources
St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School
Gretna Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE15 7PX
or by email: recruitment@scchs.org.uk
Applications will be acknowledged by email. Interview date will be confirmed.
St Cuthbert’s is first and foremost a Catholic school. Applicants are not required to be practising Catholics but are expected to support and promote the school’s Catholic vision, mission and values.
Please note we do not accept applications by CV and all applicants must complete and return the Safe Recruitment Form as part of the application process.
If you do not hear from us you may assume that your application has not been successful.
The Governors of St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School, the Trustees of the Bishop Bewick Trust and the Diocese are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young persons. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Attached documents
About St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
- St Cuthbert's Catholic High School
- Gretna Road, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne And Wear
- NE15 7PX
- United Kingdom
Public Examination Success at St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School
The curriculum followed by students is broad and balanced at Key Stage 3 with then over 80% taking an EBacc based curriculum at GCSE. Approximately one third of students take the separate sciences achieving outstanding results. Attainment 8 scores overall and in each bucket are consistently above the national average. Similarly, Progress 8 has also been consistently above the national average with the Ebacc element particularly strong indicating the success of the Ebacc based curriculum.
At Key Stage 5 there is succession from the Key Stage 4 courses for students to follow with a broad range of both
A level and vocational based qualifications. Value added has been consistently in the top quintile in recent years.
Opportunities at St Cuthbert’s
At St Cuthbert’s we pride ourselves on our excellent intra and extracurricular STEM provision. We work closely with Newcastle University, The Reece Foundation and international engineering firms such as Cundall and Sir Robert McAlpine to produce the city wide Reece Scholarship, which enables the most able Year 12 students to have a taster of engineering as a career with both academic and real life experience. This prestigious scholarship is replicated with our Key Stage Three students; a stringent application process enables us to work with the most promising STEM graduates of the future. A greater proportion of students than ever before have left us to take up engineering or related STEM undergraduate degrees, of which there is a national shortage.
In the last two years St Cuthbert’s have become a SWIRE centre for the teaching on Mandarin on the curriculum. In 2020/21 Year 7, 8 and 9 will study the subject in the most able classes, which will lead to this highly academic subject being a GCSE option in 2021 for the first time. We partner Newcastle High School for Girls on this project, funded by the SWIRE Chinese Language Foundation. Sixth form students are able to study the subject up to HSK examinations, and staff have been offered Mandarin classes after school. In 2019 students enjoyed a trip to China as part of the program.
In addition to the outstanding day-to-day practice and the student outcomes here, our cutting edge STEM and Mandarin provision helped us acquire Word Class Schools Quality Mark in December 2019. This award was earnt by the students through their showcasing of what makes us unique, in both written and visual form and subsequently working in a team with other students across the country on a high-level project culminating in an assessment day in Reading.
School website
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/
School Prospectus
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/about/prospectus/
Ofsted inspection reports
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/documents/St-Cuthbert-High-School%20Ofsted.pdf
Diocesan inspection reports
http://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/documents/Final%20Section%2048%20Report.pdf
Safeguarding Policy
Link to Application forms and associated documents
https://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/our-story/work-with-us
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