Literacy Leader and Teacher of English
King's School
Brighton and Hove
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main Scale/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 April 2025
Job overview
Contract: Full time, permanent
Salary: MPS/UPS as appropriate
Start date: 1st September 2025
Application closing date: 9.00am on Thursday 3rd April 2025
Interview date: Friday 25th April 2025
This role would suit applicants from a primary teaching background or those with experience of teaching English in secondary schools, but applications from candidates with relevant other experience are welcomed. If you are an outstanding practitioner with a passion for student learning and ensuring equality of access for all young people, we look forward to receiving your application.
Your new role
King’s School is currently recruiting for a Literacy Leader to work with the Senior Leadership Team to raise literacy levels across the school and promote reading widely and often for pleasure. The role will entail:
· Teaching a reduced timetable of English classes to Key Stage 3 students.
· Overseeing baseline literacy testing with Year 7 students.
· Identifying students in need of literacy support and working with the SENDCO, Head of English and Specialist Literacy/Numeracy Teacher to organise intervention support.
· Working with students on a small group work basis outside of the classroom to improve their literacy levels.
· Being responsible for our library provision – ordering stock; running the lending service; maintaining a positive environment in the library.
· Actively promoting reading for pleasure across the school.
Please see the accompanying job description and person specification for further details of the role.
Attached documents
About King's School
King’s School is an ecumenical Christian secondary school situated in Portslade, Brighton. It is part of the Russell Education Trust, a partnership of five 11-18 secondary schools.
The school welcomed its first cohort of students in September 2013. There are currently just over 600 students in Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, and a team of more than 40 teachers and support staff. In September 2019 the school moved to a new purpose built site in West Blatchington.
Headteacher
Sarah Price
Values and Vision
King’s School is an ecumenical Christian school, but welcomes staff and students of all faiths or none. Its four core values are love, forgiveness, respect and responsibility, demonstrating its strong upholding of religious values as well as its focus on creating students who are valuable contributors to the modern outside world.
The school's curriculum is strongly centred on English and maths, providing a firm foundation for the other curricular and extracurricular topics that it offers. Its religious studies lessons across all years help to encourage the understanding of Anglican as well as other mainstream Christian traditions.
Ofsted
“Governance is excellent. Governors use their wide-ranging skills to the best advantage of the school. They know where the best teaching resides and provide very effective challenge and support for school leaders. Students’ behaviour around the school and in lessons is [also] excellent. [They] are polite and take pride in their appearance [and] progress is tracked carefully so that effective action is taken to support students at risk of falling behind.” Ofsted 2015
The school had a short Ofsted inspection in December 2018 and maintained its good rating (from June 2015) with a recommendation that the school receives a Section 5 inspection for its next inspection due to marked improvement since 2015.
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