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Head of Religious Education

Head of Religious Education

St Cuthbert's Catholic High School

Newcastle upon Tyne

  • £47,735 - £52,723 per year
  • Expired
Salary:
L6 - L10
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01/05/2022
Apply by:
24 January 2022

Job overview

ST CUTHBERT’S CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

Number on Roll 1212 (Boys 11-18) (Group 7)

Head of Religious Education

Required for 1st May 2022

Salary: £47,735 - £52,723 (L6 – L10) 

Full time/permanent

St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School is seeking to appoint an outstanding Head of Religious Education. Our extremely successful Religious Education department aims to mould spiritually self-aware aware young men who treat others with compassion and respect as well as academically critical Theologians who are philosophical in nature and do not shirk difficult tasks or questions. We deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum, ranging from studying the life of St Cuthbert to the death penalty, all of which is underpinned by excellent teaching. We achieve among the best GCSE results in the Diocese and most of our A Level students from the past three years have gone on to Russell Group universities; many studying theology and philosophy. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop within an established and supportive team of colleagues. 

The ideal candidate will have studied theology/religious studies at degree level and will be familiar with the Catholic GCSE and A Level specifications. The role will involve specific responsibilities for KS4, KS5 and Y13 General RE (working alongside the 2nd in RE for KS3), having a lead role on the school’s Chaplaincy Team and assisting with the planning, provision and continual development of our RSE programme. 

Above all, we are looking for someone who will help our boys become better men and show them the difference that they 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 all-boys Catholic School that has enjoyed a reputation as a centre of educational excellence for over one hundred years. 

There will be an opportunity for prospective applicants to visit the school. Interested candidates should contact the Headmaster’s PA, Mrs Lynn Anderson at lynn.anderson@scchs.org.uk to arrange a visit.

Application forms and further information are available by following the link on our website   for submission by 9.00am Monday 24th January 2022.

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  

(forms will require a handwritten signature is shortlisted)

Applications will be acknowledged by email. Interviews will be held on Friday 4th February 2022.

St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School and the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust are fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. The Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust does not discriminate on the grounds of sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital status or racial ethnic or national origin and applications are welcome from a diverse range of backgrounds. As a Catholic school and an apostolate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle, those appointed to key posts within St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School are required to be ‘practising Catholics’ in accordance with the document ‘Catholic Schools and the Definition of a ‘Practising Catholic’ - 2009 Diocesan Education Service, Archdiocese of Birmingham. This document sets out in detail what it means to be a practising Catholic for the purpose of these appointments. The post of Head of Religious Education is a key post and therefore the post holder must be a practising Catholic.   

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).


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About St Cuthbert's Catholic High School

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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

https://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/userfiles/schmvc/Documents/Policies/2022-2023%20Safeguarding%20and%20Child%20Protection%20Policy%20(September%202022).pdf

Link to Application forms and associated documents

https://www.st-cuthbertshigh.newcastle.sch.uk/our-story/work-with-us


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