Head of Modern Languages
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 13 October 2020
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced teacher of Modern Languages to join one of the UK’s long-established schools and play a key role providing inspirational and visionary strategic leadership to the Modern Languages Department.
You will have overall responsibility for the languages provision within the School, where you will create and maintain a vision for the department, leading by example and ensuring outstanding teaching, learning and achievement in the subject and promoting languages beyond the classroom and the curriculum.
You will also provide support and guidance to the Heads of Language (French, German, Russian, Spanish), and to teachers of other languages (Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Modern Greek).
There is an extremely strong, broad-based interest in Modern Languages at Westminster and public examination results are first rate. The Department has an excellent record of success in preparing candidates for entry to Oxford and Cambridge, with some dozen or so pupils gaining places each year.
For further information and to apply please click the apply button.
Closing date for applications: 12.00pm Wednesday 14 October 2020.
Interviews for short-listed candidates: w/c Monday 2 November 2020.
Please note that recruitment for this post will be conducted remotely.
Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including with past employers and the DBS.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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