Lead Practitioner - Modern Foreign Language (Preferably French)
Ernulf Academy
Cambridgeshire - within 1 hour of N.London, Norfolk, Rugby and Grantham
- £52,301 - £57,720 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 21 April 2025
Job overview
JOIN OUR MISSION TO BEOME ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY
Lead Practitioner of MFL (French) – Ernulf Academy
Ernulf Academy is on a mission to be the most improved school across Cambridgeshire. Do you want to be part of the journey to transform a community school?
We are seeking a full-time Lead Practitioner of MFL (preferably French) to join our thriving team. Support the Head of MFL in leading and developing the department, and help raise standards of student attainment and achievement. Join a team of experienced, reflective, and enthusiastic subject-specialists committed to maintaining high levels of behaviour and discipline.
Our Vision and Values: At Ernulf Academy, we are driven by our core values of Scholarship, Curiosity, Tenacity, Responsibility, and Respect. These values underpin every action and conversation within our school, guiding us to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, ensuring they have the option to go to university or pursue an aspirational alternative.
What We Offer:
- A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and traditional T&L approaches.
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources.
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team.
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback.
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system.
- Highly visible/supportive senior leaders.
- Centralised detentions, including homework detentions.
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching.
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region.
- Opportunity to complete NPQs.
What We Are Looking For:
- A highly effective and inspiring leader who can motivate and encourage colleagues.
- Someone aligned to our values and mission.
- Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs.
Interested in Applying? If you’re interested in this role, looking for a new challenge, or have a passion for education, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy.
Safeguarding and Diversity: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities.
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About Ernulf Academy
- Ernulf Academy
- Barford Road, Eynesbury, St. Neots
- Cambridgeshire
- PE19 2SH
- United Kingdom
This is a fantastic time to join TEAM ERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turn our school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term, Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories. If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to disrupt disadvantage by transforming the education of our pupils. We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby.
We belieive in keeping things simple. Our mantra is: WORK HARD, BE KIND. We don't just want children to attain incredible academic outcomes; we also want to help them become great people.
WORK HARD
Team Ernulf don't believe in fads. We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. That is why we have sky high expectations. We have simple rules, centralised detentions, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free. We do this to support our children who want to work hard and do well.
A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’, underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching, following evidence-based research by Rosenshine. Our pedagogy is influenced by Teach Like A Champion (TLAC). Stimulating lessons are delivered by teachers, who we back as the expert in the room.
BE KIND
Team Ernulf is WWF: warm, welcoming, and friendly. We pride ourselves on having a family atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect and have zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core, but teaching pupils to be polite, considerate, and caring is just as important.
Our world-class enrichment programme takes learning beyond the classroom. In Autumn term 2024 alone, children visited Cambridge University, The British Museum, The National Gallery, RAF Hendon, Kenilworth Castle, and were on Channel 5 and BBC radio!! As well as this, every week KS3 children have the opportunity to take part in electives such as British sign language, clubbercise, building a robotic arm, chess, girls cricket, and many more!
OTHER BENEFITS
- Pay above the national scales!
- 8 INSET days per year!
- Whole-class feedback over marking to reduce workload and increase impact!
- Centralised behaviour systems - you do not have to run your own detentions!
- Fully-resourced curriculum - plan your lessons, not the whole curriculum!
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Astrea Academy Trust
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Astrea Academy Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all requests for flexible working as we know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and building our culture of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Astrea’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, prohibition, qualifications, online searches, two references and enhanced DBS check including the Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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