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Humanities Teacher

Humanities Teacher

John Ferneley College

Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

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Salary:
Main or Upper Pay Range
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
24 August 2018
Apply by:
29 April 2018

Job overview

Humanities Teacher

Permanent, full time, to start end of August 2018

Based at John Ferneley College, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

Main or upper pay range

Our secondary Humanities team is extremely high performing and with an ambition to develop our capacity even further, to provide system leadership and supporting other schools in the East Midlands. We’re looking for talented and enthusiastic qualified teachers to help us achieve this.  If you have passion and talent for Humanities and want to work hard to instil this in others, then you will fit right into our friendly team.

Joining our Humanities team you will be a fantastic teaching practitioner with responsibility for teaching Humanities at secondary level (to GCSE) and achieving high quality learning across all year groups. 

How does our curriculum work?

  • as a vehicle to improving social mobility for the town of Melton Mowbray
  • regardless of starting points, all students access an aspirational curriculum
  • all students study Humanities to GCSE and the vast majority will study a language over their 5 secondary years 
  • in addition to core curriculum, students are offered a wide range of option subjects
  • we have a clear focus on transition between primary and secondary (as part of our Trust)
  • we are highly committed to offering all students the opportunity to take part in a wide range of enrichment activities, through sport, performance and outdoor and adventurous activities

Working with us will give you:

  • an opportunity to work in an exciting, dynamic team with a ‘can do’ attitude to securing life chances for children
  • an environment with moral purpose at its heart
  • an opportunity to indulge in a passion for your subject and for teaching
  • autonomy to focus on subject mastery
  • a climate that takes seriously the wellbeing of it’s very much valued teaching team
  • a comprehensive wellbeing package of benefits
  • a sensible approach to teacher workload
  • opportunities to develop your career within our growing Trust
  • opportunities to extend your reach and impact into primary settings
  • opportunities to extend your experience across a range of academic settings
  • 1:1 support in strategic career planning
  • a culture that takes work life balance extremely seriously
  • a personalised CPD programme to help you achieve all you’re capable of
  • wonderful students
  • high aspirations for all stakeholders

For more information about our Trust and schools and to apply for these roles, visit our website at www.mowbrayeducation.org or get in touch to arrange a visit or to have an informal chat.

We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of students. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and fluency in the English language.

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About John Ferneley College

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+44 1664 565901

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We are an 11-16 secondary academy and part of the Mowbray Education Trust. 

Located in the beautiful rural market town of Melton Mowbray, we serve around 1150 students from within Melton Mowbray and beyond.

Everything we do is focussed around ensuring that our young people get the very best support and opportunities we can give them. They deserve nothing less, it's what we're here to do.

We make 6 promises:

  • The education of the children at John Ferneley will always be our priority
  • Through our high expectations of the children we serve we are investing in the future of our community
  • We want the children to work hard, show resilience and enjoy their time with us
  • We will recruit and retain the best quality staff to ensure our children get the very best education possible
  • We will be transparent in everything we do
  • All children are important, we will always challenge them to be their best and no child will be left behind


The Mowbray Education Trust is committed to ensuring that all of our young people get the best support and opportunities that we can give them.

Our Trust serves our communities through providing nurseries, primary and secondary schools that cater for children throughout their formative years. We currently run one nursery and six schools: five primary and one secondary.

We are a community whose vision is that in every one of our settings the children come first. We have high expectations of both our children, and those that teach them.

We recognise and cultivate the talent in our staff and work hard to put only the highest quality teachers in front of our children.

We pride ourselves in our determination to ensure that no child is left behind, and a have a strong and energetic team working to continually drive standards up.

http://www.johnferneley.org.uk

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