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Head of Maths

Head of Maths

Leighton Park School

Reading

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
7 February 2023

Job overview

HMC Co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18.

 

Head of Maths

Available From September 2023


This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated professional, to join our dynamic and popular Maths department from September 2023. This post would suit an excellent classroom practitioner who is keen to demonstrate a proven commitment to raising levels of student achievement.

 Our Maths Department is an energetic and exciting environment. It has grown in strength with the current team, and we are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual who will lead the department’s current teaching and learning strategies and develop their own teaching practice with our support.

 Our next Head of Maths will be passionate about their subject, inspire and engage our students and actively lead the further development of Maths within the School. The ability to teach across the range of Key Stages, including Sixth Form and IBDP is desirable. Your confident ability to use ICT in the teaching of Maths is essential. Applications are welcomed from experienced practitioners, particularly those looking for positions with additional responsibility. A willingness to participate in co-curricular activities is also required.

Leighton Park School is set in over sixty acres of beautiful parkland near to the heart of Reading. Leighton Park offers a distinctive atmosphere that creates achievement with values, character and community. Founded on Quaker principles, we seek to inspire each student to fulfil their academic and personal potential and be reflective, purposeful adults. We appoint candidates who will contribute and thrive in our vibrant community.

The school offers a supportive and professional workplace with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.

To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.

Closing date: Midday, 7th February 2023

Interview date: Monday 20th February 2023

Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school which delights in being diverse, open-minded and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.


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Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for approximately 500 pupils aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland. 

Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In March 2021 we won the ISA Award for Outstanding Local Community Outreach for the involvement of our students, staff and parents in projects helping those less fortunate and putting our Quaker values into practice.

We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100. 

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