Senior School English Teacher

General 

The school seeks a passionate, enthusiastic and talented practitioner with qualifications and experience to teach across the Senior School age range (11 to 18 years old). English is a strong and dynamic department in the school, offering courses at IGCSE and IB. 

English Department 

The English department in the Senior School is an academic, organised, supportive and energetic team of nine. Our department is central to the existence of the school: it is our job to ensure that pupils leave this British school utterly confident in their English usage and with a love of literature and of the English language. Our achievements in inspiring our pupils with structured, dynamic teaching, supported with well-considered schemes of work, continue to empower our young people to become adept thinkers and communicators for tomorrow's ever-changing world. Although the majority of our pupils speak Portuguese at home, our approach, in keeping with our ethos as a British school, is to teach virtually as if they spoke English as a first language. Our pupils take Cambridge IGCSE English and English literature in Form 5 (Year 11). We are very proud of our on-going success at IGCSE. 

At Key Stage 5, we follow the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma in English A: language and literature, which consistently proves to be one of the most popular subjects our Sixth Formers choose to study at higher level. We are a very well resourced department, with a wide range of texts in stock and a number of corresponding schemes of work to teach them. Text choices in the past have ranged from Greek tragedy to Renaissance drama to postcolonial prose and anything in between. Our teachers enjoy curricular freedom over the literary and non-literary texts chosen for their pupils, appropriate to age, ability, their interests and identified intellectual gaps. This, in part, enables our pupils to consistently perform well above the global average for IB points, and we are extremely proud of the results that our pupils achieve in English at Key Stage 5.

Start is expected to be in August 2024.

About St. Paul’s School: 

St. Paul’s was founded in 1926 and was the first school in South America to receive accreditation from the UK government as a British School Overseas. Fully coeducational, with about 1,100 pupils, aged from 3 to 18, it is a school with history and tradition, but which embraces innovation, contemporary values and the latest in digital learning. We are a world-class school, and an international member of HMC and IAPS, and a member of COBIS and the LAHC. We are proud of our local, national and international reputation and we constantly strive to improve the opportunities for our pupils and staff. Our recent BSO inspection judged us as a leading British School overseas, and you can download the report from our website. Our exceptional facilities place teaching and learning at the heart of the school. 

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More details about the school can be found at www.stpauls.br. 

The English Teacher role: 

The role of the teacher at St. Paul’s is to promote at all times and in every possible way the pupils’ intellectual and social development and learning, including independent learning skills. 

Successful applicants will hold (as a minimum):

• A bachelor's degree in literature (or relevant arts subject);
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) from the UK in secondary English (or equivalent teaching qualification);
• At least two years' experience of teaching English in secondary schools.

Desirable criteria include:

• Experience of teaching the IB Diploma, Cambridge IGCSEs or UK A-levels in English language and/or literature;
• A master's degree in education, English or relevant field.

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Benefits 

For expatriate staff the package is a two-year (renewable) contract that includes: housing allowance; furnishing allowance; grocery allowance; return flights (at the start and end of each contract); luggage allowances (outbound and return); visa expenses covered; opt-in private pension scheme; high-interest savings scheme, healthcare and dental plan, on-site lunches, and a UK-sterling salary allowance. 

Safeguarding 

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. The offer of the role would be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references, proof of relevant qualifications, identification checks and other safeguarding checks, an overseas check if appropriate and a pre-placement medical assessment. Proof of entitlement to work in Brazil is also required where necessary.