Lead Teacher in Biology
Archbishop Temple Church of England High School
Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2.1, £3214 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 18 April 2024
Job overview
We are looking for a well-qualified, enthusiastic and passionate Teacher of Science to take on a lead role in biology within our highly successful science team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing biology across KS3 and KS4 in collaboration with the department.
In Years 7 and 8, all students follow an integrated science course and biology is taught as a separate subject, by subject specialists, from Year 9. At GCSE, students are offered either the AQA Trilogy course, leading to two GCSEs in science, or the option of AQA separate sciences and achieving GCSE qualifications in separate biology, biology and physics.
The successful applicant will be responsible for reviewing, designing and overseeing the schemes of work at KS3 and 4 and will be accountable for student progress and development within biology across all 5 years.
GCSE results in science are consistently strong. In 2023, 57.1% of all biology GCSE entries were awarded grades 7-9, 87.8% were at 9-5 and 95.9% were awarded at 9-4. 79.8% of all pupils were awarded 9-4 in our Trilogy GCSE course.
Our main priorities are to maintain achievement, enhance the curriculum and support our pupils to reach their true potential. You will have the opportunity to teach highly motivated pupils in a school with a national reputation for academic excellence and where there is a wide range of extra-curricular activities in which you can get involved.
Application forms and further details can be downloaded from the school’s website: www.archbishoptemple.com
Closing date: Midday on Thursday 18th April 2024.
Interviews: Thursday 2nd May 2024.
The position is subject to satisfactory DBS checks and excellent employment references.
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. The position is subject to satisfactory DBS checks and excellent employment references.
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About Archbishop Temple Church of England High School
- Archbishop Temple Church of England High School
- St. Vincents Road, Fulwood, Preston
- Lancashire
- PR2 8RA
- United Kingdom
Archbishop Temple Church of England High School is a high achieving, non-selective school. We are located in Preston, Lancashire, and have around 780 pupils aged 11-16 on roll. Our curriculum centres on traditional academic subjects including PE, technology subjects and creative arts subjects which we value. We expect good behaviour and hard work from our pupils, and although we are unashamedly academic, we are here for all our pupils - we are an inclusive and welcoming school. Children with special needs do conspicuously well with us, and are our greatest success stories.
We are very proud of the many opportunities we offer to our young people. Our sports offer is superb and our music provision is amazing.
We are a Church of England school. We acknowledge God through regular acts of worship, we employ a full time Chaplain who is part of the pastoral support we offer our children and staff. Our faith is worked out in the way we treat people. We deliberately invest very heavily in having a large and very experienced pastoral team. Our motto of “faith, nurture, service” has nurturing young people at its heart. Making sure children are cared for, safe and happy is critically important to us. We have very few exclusions from school, and give our children as many chances as they need, because we are a place of faith! One of the things we like about ourselves is that we are a relatively small secondary school. That means that every child will be taught by every teacher during their time with us – no-one is anonymous, everyone knows everyone’s name.
All of this combines to make us a place of achievement. Every year around 85% of our children leave us with five or more good GCSEs, including English and Maths. We are a national teaching school.
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