Head of Maths
Trumpington Community College
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Highly Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2021
- Apply by:
- 7 May 2021
Job overview
The role
We are looking for a talented Teacher of Maths to join our team at Trumpington.
Do you want to be part of a team, on an exciting 'turnaround' journey, where you will help make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom are disadvantaged, so they can make a success of their lives?
Do you believe in disruption free learning, 'Education with Character' and a 'warm:strict' ethos?
Do you believe in teaching powerful knowledge through explicit direct instruction?
Our Maths Department has a combination of teaching classrooms and external teaching and learning spaces. All our classroom spaces are equipped with audio-visual capabilities, and whiteboards may be used interactively. Our students are equipped with Chromebooks and make use of G-Suite for Education: Trumpington Community College is a Google Reference School. Opportunities exist to make use of other spaces in the school including a multi-use Dance Studio, Lecture Theatre and the main Atrium.
This is an opportunity to develop pedagogy and positively impact on students’ outcomes while still being able to strengthen your own teaching practice and leadership.
About You
It is a very exciting time to join Trumpington Community College and play a role in the transformational journey we are currently undergoing. Future growth of the school will offer excellent future career progression opportunities. The school is located on the south side of Cambridge. The school was built in 2015 and the main school building provides an outstanding environment for our community.
We are value-driven and out vision is to provide excellent education so that all young people are able to make a success of their lives. Our most important purpose is to teach young people things they would not learn outside school which empower them. We believe that ‘Knowledge Is Power’. We believe in teaching through explicit/direct instruction (Rosenshine) and utilising Doug Lemov’s teach like a champion techniques. Our mission is to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child. No matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on a schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given the wide opportunity and prepared them for the ups and downs of life. We are driven be ‘REACH’ values: RESPECT, Enthusiasm, Ambition, Confidence and Hard work.
We value all our staff highly, and treat workload very seriously. Out systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose- teaching or supporting teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we consider that we have received an appropriate number of suitable candidates for the post.
What we offer:
- An exceptional salary, above the maintained sector
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the United Learning Cambridge Cluster
- Opportunity to complete the NPQML and NPQSL
- Up to 9 INSET days per year, dedicated to subject knowledge development and planning/resource development
- An unrivalled professional progression model
- The opportunity to save money across hundreds of major retailers, through Perkbox
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm-strict’ behaviour system
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
- A centralised homework system at KS3 – you do not need to mark KS3 homework
- Same-day centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organise/run/chase them at all)
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ feedback, helping you to continuously develop
- A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridge
United Learning
The Cambridge Cluster joined United Learning lately, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
Attached documents
About Trumpington Community College
- Trumpington Community College
- Lime Avenue, Cambridge
- Cambridgeshire
- CB2 9FD
- United Kingdom
“Trumpington Community College was built in 2015 on the south side of Cambridge, and the new school building provides a great environment for both working and learning. The school is growing and admitted 150 new pupils in Year 7 for the first time in September 2023. This growth will provide excellent future career progression opportunities.
Following the Ofsted inspection in November 2023, Trumpington Community College is now a ‘Good’ school. Excitingly, two areas of the school were judged to be ‘Outstanding’ – Quality of Education, and Leadership and Management.
“Pupils know that staff at the school have unashamedly high ambition for them. They appreciate the hard work teachers put into designing engaging and challenging lessons. Pupils respond by working hard.” “High-quality training supports teachers to deliver the curriculum’s aspirational aims.” “Staff are hugely proud to work in the school. They feel cared for, engaged with and valued.”
One parent comment, reflective of many, was: “The statistics show the school is clearly achieving exceptional academic things with all its students. But it is that it manages this in a joyful, safe and loving way that I find so deeply impressive. I love going there and so do my children.”
We are unashamedly ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We believe that ‘Knowledge Is Power’ – our most important purpose is to teach young people things they would not learn outside school which empower them. We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on a schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given them wide opportunities and prepared them for the ups and downs of life.
We have high expectations and standards, and we teach through explicit/direct instruction (using the Rosenshine Principles) and utilising TLAC 3.0 techniques. In this way, we achieve strong GCSE outcomes, excellent student conduct and a feeling of community throughout the College.”
United Learning Cambridge Cluster
We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
We embrace United Learning aim to offer a life changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.
We share knowledge and resource within the cluster and the group to simplify work processes and manage workloads to achieve excellent results while improving work-life balance. As a cluster and as a group, we can look after our staff better.
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