Lead Teacher of French
De Lacy Academy
Wakefield
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Leadership range L5 to L9 (£52,074 to £57,482)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 2 May 2024
Job overview
De Lacy Academy are looking to appoint a Lead Teacher of French to join our academy in September 2024 on a full time, permanent basis.
Are you looking for a role that will enable you to influence and give direction to the children in your classes? Do you want to work for a Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England? If so, this could be the role for you.
YOUR NEW ROLE
As a Lead Teacher you will provide pedagogic leadership as an outstanding classroom practitioner, playing a key part in raising standards through the model of your own excellent teaching and by supporting the professional development of your colleagues. The ultimate aim will be to improve the learning experience and increase the outcomes of pupils, whatever their ability.
OUR VISION
At Delta Academies Trust we understand the importance of learning a modern foreign language and we believe that every single one of our pupils should have that opportunity. We have invested significant time, expertise, and money in the creation of an outstanding curriculum offer which has increased pupil engagement, and as a result the number of pupils studying MFL in our 19 secondary academies has risen dramatically.
OUR CURRICULUM
We have created carefully sequenced five-year curriculum plans for both French and Spanish using the national curriculum and the key recommendations of the 2016 MFL Pedagogy Review, and we regularly update them. Each one is fully resourced, with detailed lessons prepared for you to adapt to the needs of your classes. We use an online coursebook to underpin our teaching, along with our trust knowledge organisers. Every unit of work includes a cultural topic to help instil a love of languages as well as promote a desire to get to know more about people from those countries. We subscribe to an on-line learning platform to support the learning of vocabulary. Perhaps our biggest and most impressive investment is in our team of modern language assistants. We currently have over 20 native speakers in our academies and our pupils love working with them!
HOW WILL WE SUPPORT YOU
Our Senior MFL director is a specialist in both French and Spanish and leads a team of two MFL directors and two lead teachers. They are all based in our academies working to support teachers and pupils on a daily basis. We recognise the value of high quality CPD and the director team run subject specific CPD every half term, meaning that staff from across our trust can meet to share best practice and stay up to date with research findings and national developments. Although our curriculum model is standard across our trust, we are all individuals, and you will have the opportunity to develop as a professional in your own right. We pride ourselves on recognising and developing talent and are passionate about sharing our love of teaching languages.
OUR FUTURE
Our director team are held in high regard and have worked with the DFE and the examination boards in consultation about the existing and new GCSEs. We are passionate about languages in any way, shape or form and five of our academies have joined the DFE Latin Centre of Excellence programme, forming a regional hub. We are also preparing to offer MFL ITT from September 2024 as a partner of Exchange Teacher Training.
YOUR NEW SCHOOL
Here at De Lacy Academy, we have been on a journey that has seen the school recently judged as Outstanding by Ofsted. They recognised the hard work and effort that goes into making this school a successful and caring place of learning that meets the needs of its pupils and its community.
With nearly 900 pupils aged between 11 and 16 housed on a campus that has benefited from much recent investment, De Lacy is a busy and vibrant place. We serve the ex mining area of Knottingley and draw increasingly from the surrounding areas. We are experiencing a period of unprecedented growth across all year groups as the school delivers excellent outcomes and as the communities of Knottingley and Ferrybridge continue to develop.
WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY?
Our staff are talented and enthusiastic and have all contributed to the academy’s success story. We have a staff rewards budget and socialise both as subject teams and as a whole staff. We also have access to a staff benefits scheme. At De Lacy, we value the continuous professional development of all our employees and recognise that our staff and students are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged and supported to achieve their very best. Your new school is based next door to Education House, the centre of Delta Academies Trust, making access to high quality CPD easy and convenient. In addition, De Lacy benefits from close access to the M62, the A1 and a local train station. You would be joining a highly skilled and committed staff. It is a source of pride to us that we retain such a high percentage of staff and trainee teachers.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
For more information and to apply for this position please visit our website at https://www.deltatrust.org.uk/careers-with-delta/
Visits to the academy are welcome by appointment, please contact the academy on 01977 722489 to arrange a visit. For an informal conversation or to arrange a visit please contact Helen Holmes, Senior Director of MFL on 07814 215473.
In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list / prohibition lists.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. However, it is important to note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may limit the numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
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About De Lacy Academy
De Lacy Academy has a reputation as a caring school, which places the individual at the very heart of what we do. Visitors to our school regularly comment upon the warm and friendly atmosphere created by the positive relationship between staff and students.
Here at De Lacy Academy, we have been on a journey that has seen the school recently judged as Outstanding by Ofsted (April 2022). They recognised the hard work and effort that goes into making this school a successful and caring place of learning that meets the needs of its pupils and its community.
With nearly 900 pupils aged between 11 and 16 housed on a campus that has benefited from much recent investment, De Lacy is a busy and vibrant place. We serve the ex mining area of Knottingley and draw increasingly from the surrounding areas. We are experiencing a period of unprecedented growth across all year groups as the school delivers excellent outcomes and as the communities of Knottingley and Ferrybridge continue to develop.
We have a hugely talented and committed staff team, who are dedicated in making sure that every student has a curriculum and enrichment opportunities that meets their needs. We pride ourselves on having high expectations, which ensures that our students are well organised, caring and supportive of each other and the community. This is underpinned by the strong pastoral care our students receive from our dedicated team of staff, which ensures we have a calm and well-ordered environment, which is focussed on the successful outcomes for all.
We work closely with our local primaries and welcome members of the community into our academy every evening. The community makes great use of our faculties and our primary school links ensure that their students reap the benefits of all that we can offer.
We pride ourselves on very close, open and positive relationships with parents and carers, and expect them to be fully involved in supporting the learning of their son or daughter; we are an academy that believes in supporting the community we serve
De Lacy Academy enjoys the many benefits of being a member of the Delta Academies Trust; a group, or 'family' of schools of different age ranges and contexts, this enables good practice, expertise and resources to be shared between our group of schools and ultimately enables us to offer greater collaboration between each other and a wider range of learning opportunities and extra-curricular opportunities for our students.
Our staff are talented and enthusiastic and have all contributed to the academy’s success story. We have a staff rewards budget and socialise both as subject teams and as a whole staff. We also have access to a staff benefits scheme. At De Lacy, we value the continuous professional development of all our employees and recognise that our staff and students are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged and supported to achieve their very best.
At the centre of all we do is the commitment to provide a first class education to our students through working collaboratively as a staff and with our external partners, we can ensure that each student has the opportunity to achieve success and fulfil their potential.
There is a real sense of pride and ambition, coupled with excitement and enjoyment that prevails at De Lacy Academy. An academy that is providing an exciting future for its students.
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