Physics Teacher
Leighton Park School
Reading
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 July 2025
Job overview
Physics Teacher
Available From January 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic teacher of Physics, to join a dynamic and popular department from January 2026. This post would suit an experienced practitioner or an ECTs who is keen to develop. Using your passion for teaching, you will inspire students in KS3, KS4, A level and International Baccalaureate. The successful candidate should be a dynamic team-worker and bring enthusiasm to this post. A willingness to participate in Co-Curricular activities is also required.
Leighton Park won the prestigious Senior School of the Year award at the Independent Schools Association ISA Awards 2023. Among the factors considered by the judges were the School’s academic success, with our Sixth Formers achieving the best academic progress in Berkshire, our award-winning pupil personal development programme and sector-leading pastoral care. We inspire our students to imagine a better world and we hold ourselves to the same high standard.
The school offers a supportive and professional workplace with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.
To apply, please complete the attached application form, or complete the online form on our recruitment website, and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.
Applications will be reviewed, and interviews held, on a rolling basis; therefore, we encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience.
Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.
Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school which delights in being diverse, open-minded and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
About Leighton Park School
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Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.
Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In 2023 we won Senior School of the Year in the national Independent Schools Association Awards. We were also a finalist in the Independent Senior School of the Year in the TES Schools Awards 2023.
We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.
We challenge our students to imagine a better world. We then support them to develop the character, confidence and determination to be changemakers.
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