Head of Modern Foreign Languages
Streatham and Clapham High School
Streatham, London SW16 1AW
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary, benefits and pay progression
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required January 2018
- Apply by:
- 26 September 2017
Job overview
The role
Streatham & Clapham High School have an exciting opportunity for an experienced MFL Teacher to lead a thriving and highly successful Modern Foreign Languages Department and build on its excellent results and further consolidate its established reputation for A Level success.
Taking overall responsibility for the professional leadership and management of the Modern Foreign Languages Department, you will deliver high standards of teaching and learning, ensuring resources are used efficiently and effectively, and that the curriculum is managed and developed in accordance with school policy.
You will teach Modern Foreign Languages to pupils across the 11- 18 age range, inspiring and promoting excellent attainment in the subject. You will also provide advice and support to the Preparatory School in terms of its own language provision.
The Department
Results achieved to date have been excellent (2017: 84% A*-B at Edexcel IGCSE) and A*s are regularly achieved at A Level. The Department is justly proud to have won the international VocabExpress competition several times since 2012.
A programme of visits and trips, including sixth-form work-experience placements in Belgium and Spain, and a Key Stage 3 residential trip to St Malo, and Key Stage 3/4 study trips to France, Spain and Italy, are organised annually, as is regular attendance at conferences, lectures, theatre, and cinema trips. Sixth formers have taken part in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office/British Council EU Mock Council where they employ their debating skills through French.
Why Streatham & Clapham High School?
Streatham & Clapham High School is a highly successful, academically selective independent day school, located in a delightfully tranquil and leafy oasis of south London. It is in the top tier of UK schools in terms of its A Level and GCSE results.
If you have a passion for teaching, the ability to inspire girls to outperform expectations, and the willingness to contribute energetically and enthusiastically to the curricular and co-curricular life of this ambitious and high-achieving department, we would be delighted to hear from you.
In return, we can offer you a range of benefits including:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• Free school lunches
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
Details of how to apply may be obtained by clicking apply or by contacting hr@schs.gdst.net (tel. 020 8677 8400).
Closing date: noon, Wednesday 27 September 2017.
Interviews: Week commencing Monday 2nd October 2017.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
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About Streatham and Clapham High School
- Streatham and Clapham High School
- 42 Abbotswood Road, Streatham
- London
- SW16 1AW
- United Kingdom
Streatham & Clapham High School (SCHS) is a highly successful independent, academically selective school for girls aged 3-18. It offers an inspiring, enlightened and rigorously challenging education in a lively, vibrant and warmly supportive environment. We celebrate diversity and draw strength from our rich social and cultural mix. SCHS pupils achieve examination results which place the school in the top tier of UK independent schools at GCSE and A Level.
This reflects the school’s belief that all pupils should be inspired to outperform expectations on a daily basis. The pursuit of excellence is thus our defining feature. Along the way, our pupils learn the beauty of reason, the allure of the aesthetic, and the vitality of the physical. They are empowered to navigate the landscape of the human spirit and to achieve beyond the realms of expectation.
The Prep School (3-11) and Senior School (11-18) occupy separate sites. The Senior School inhabits a four-acre site in a delightfully tranquil and leafy oasis of south London. Pupils benefit from first-class facilities, including ICT suites, music and music technology suites, a recital hall, technology workshops, a full-size indoor sports hall, dance and art studios, and sports pitches and tennis courts. Major investment in exciting development and refurbishment plans includes a new Sixth Form Centre and a Creative Arts Centre.
SCHS is abuzz with activity. Pupils regularly put on ambitious drama productions. The school has four choirs, a full orchestra and a variety of chamber-music groups. Its pupils participate in a legion of sporting activities, in which they achieve great success. SCHS’s Gymnastics teams, for instance, were the best in England in the 2012 National Gymnastics Competition. However, pupils attain success across the spectrum of activity, from achieving outstanding results in public-speaking competitions, to winning prizes for the crash-testing of vehicles at Imperial College; from gaining awards for eco-action and sustainability, to trekking across the Atlas Mountains in Morocco or to the base camp of Mount Everest.
We are convinced that intrinsic to our pupils’ success are our expert and alert pastoral systems. The warmly supportive environment and the school’s family ethos enable all pupils to be known, valued and nurtured as individuals. This helps them to make outstanding progress, both academically and in their personal development.
SCHS has a vibrant, purposeful and happy culture with a focus on supporting all pupils to achieve beyond their potential.
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