History Teacher (Maternity Cover)
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2023
Job overview
Wimbledon High School has an exciting opportunity for a hard-working and inspirational individual to join our thriving History department as maternity cover.
As a History Teacher (Maternity Cover), you will teach history across the school with expertise and enthusiasm, planning and preparing your lessons with the educational needs of your students in mind. Where necessary, you will offer support to individual students, encouraging and challenging pupils to apply new knowledge and understanding, facilitating a deepened interest in the subject. In addition to your primary subject, the opportunity to teach Politics is also available, depending on your knowledge and expertise.
You will be a well-qualified and experienced individual, with a demonstrable passion for History. You will possess a background of teaching History to at least Key Stage 3, 4 and ideally 5, preferably with the added experience of teaching Politics. Enthusiastic, positive and hardworking, you will possess the dedication and drive to inspire and provoke in our pupils a studious interest of the past.
About the School
One of London’s top day schools, Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London. Our motivated students are challenged to believe in themselves within a stimulating environment and there is a ‘can-do’ attitude throughout the school, with girls involved in all sorts of clubs and activities.
Benefits
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date is Monday 20th February at 9.00am and interviews will be held on Monday 27th February 2023.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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