PE teacher
Queens Park Community School
Brent
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- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS - UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 14 April 2024
Job overview
London NW6
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to take on the role of PE Teacher from September 2024. You will be an excellent practitioner, creative, well organised and committed to helping our students make good progress and achieve their potential. You will be required to teach a wide variety of sports and physical activities across the full ability range within KS3, KS4 and KS5.
The successful candidate will join an established, collaborative and successful PE team to ensure that students enjoy a challenging, dynamic and rewarding curriculum. We have a strong commitment to ensure that all students have access to a high-quality PE curriculum, regardless of their starting points or prior experiences. Involvement with extra-curricular activities is essential and we are looking for an individual committed to helping students maximise their potential and who will help further develop our already thriving extra-curricular provision. The ability to lead extra-curricular boys football teams across the department and drive a minibus would be advantageous. Applications are welcome from ECTs and experienced practitioners.
Queens Park Community School is a confident and thriving secondary school situated in the south of the London Borough of Brent. We are fortunate to have an exceptional location, surrounded by playing fields and close to good transport routes.
We have an 11 – 18 intake and have been continually over-subscribed for many years with our student catchment reflecting the rich diversity of culture and socio-economic grouping in North West London. We have very supportive families who represent a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds and most have high aspirations for their children. We are a converter academy which has aligned itself to co-operative principles. Our ethos is reflected in our mission statement which utilises the school’s initials: Quality, Progress, Creativity, Success. QPCS is a successful school, rated good by Ofsted in December 2019. We are committed to the highest of standards in all we do, and set ourselves challenging targets. We invest heavily in maintaining a high quality of teaching and learning which continues to improve the academic performance of our students.
We are an unusual school in that we are fully committed to mixed attainment teaching as we believe that this provides the most supportive, inclusive and successful environment for our students. We are proud of our broad and balanced curriculum. No subject is marginalised at QPCS. We have been a Business and Enterprise Specialist school and, having achieved Artsmark Gold in the past, are now seeking Platinum status. Our STEM opportunities are innovative and exciting and the associated A-levels are a flourishing part of our 6th form provision. We are also renowned for our sporting excellence being Brent champions in a range of sports and have a strong athletics tradition. Our students are encouraged to work hard and get involved in all aspects of school life.
Teachers are well supported at QPCS. We have a faculty structure and this, coupled with a substantial coaching programme, enables teachers to develop their skills regardless of their level of experience. Our pastoral system is also strong. Most teachers are form tutors and remain with their classes throughout their time in the school supported by a year team structure consisting of SLT and non-teaching staff in addition to Year Co-ordinators and their deputies.
If you share our values and are committed to ensuring that all students achieve irrespective of barriers they may face, you will enjoy being part of Queens Park Community School.
If you are motivated and want to work with us to make a difference to the lives of our students then we want to hear from you. Visits to the school are welcome.
Job description and application forms are available to download from the school’s website www.qpcs.brent.sch.uk. Please send applications to the attention of Magdalena Powell, HR Manager
Proof of eligibility to work in the UK is a requirement
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early and proceed to
interview upon receipt of a number of suitably qualified applications. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
As part of the shortlisting process, the school reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and any relevant information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children will be discussed at interview stage.
Our safeguarding practices prevent us from accepting CV’s.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service
Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty.
Information about the School can be found on our website page
Attached documents
About Queens Park Community School
Queens Park Community School is a co-educational secondary academy based in Brent, north-west London, for students aged 11-19.
Headteacher
Judith Enright
Values and vision
- Quality teaching and learning is at the heart of Queens Park Community School. We don't select our students, but we do select our staff. Experts in their subjects, our teachers care about every student, and they inspire and motivate our students to learn and achieve.
- It is not about where you come from; it is where you are going to that counts. Our high expectations are underpinned by first-class teaching in mixed-attainment groups, challenging and supporting every one of our students to progress towards their life goals.
- Our emphasis on creativity enables Queens Park students to flourish. They have the freedom to express themselves thanks to our strong academic, cultural, artistic and sporting curriculum with excellent enrichment.
- Our students experience success. They are challenged to achieve their aspirations. When they leave us to go on to university, jobs or apprenticeships, they are proud to say "QPCS made me who I am." They come back and share their success, inspiring the next generation and building our community.
Ofsted report
“Members of the governing body are experienced and highly skilled… Their primary concern was to achieve academy status while continuing to secure the support of staff, parents and the wider community. Their determination to succeed, together with their collegiate and open leadership style, ensured that the transition was seamless. They continue to appropriately challenge school leaders about the ethos and quality of education provided by the school. They are very aspirational and, as a result, there is a continuing programme of improvement.”
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