Modern Foreign Languages Assistant (L2 Teaching Assistant)

Parkside Community School are seeking to appointment enthusiastic and experienced Modern Foreign Languages Assistant to provide effective support for students within our Spanish MFL Department.

The Languages Department at Parkside Community School is successful and strong and pupils enjoy language learning. GCSE Academic attainment is above national average and improving year on year. The school strives to support and encourage individual growth within a caring community and we have a talented team of MFL staff who are ambitious to become outstanding in all areas of our work.

We will offer you a positive and innovative learning culture supported by students, staff, parents and governors. We have enthusiastic students who are willing to learn and behave well in and around the school, and a professional, hardworking and supportive team of staff with the capacity and commitment to raise student achievement even further. We will also look to offer a bespoke CPD package in order to support career aspirations of the successful candidate.

Our curriculum aims to develop confident communicators in listening, speaking, reading and writing, who are able to use a rich vocabulary and draw on a sound grammatical knowledge. Our curriculum ensures pupils’ writing, reading and oracy skills are developed through activities which require pupils to communicate effectively and accurately in both spoken and written form. This is consolidated in formative and summative assessment that clearly track the pupil progress throughout the year. We strive to equip pupils to use language for different purposes and to eventually enter a global world where their linguistic and intercultural skills will enhance careers and relationships with others.

We believe the decision to learn a language is an act of friendship, a way of thinking completely differently and we intend to offer our pupils insights into different cultural experiences across the Hispanic world. A central aim of our curriculum is to develop pupils’ cultural awareness through awakening their curiosity and deepen their understanding of different customs, beliefs, history and literature. In so doing, we challenge pupils to consider their own identity, to appreciate and empathise with different ways of seeing the world and consequently to play a part in breaking down social and cultural barriers in the world.

If you are interested in applying for the post, please complete an application form and submit directly to srussell@parkside.derbyshire.sch.uk. CV’s will not be accepted