Spanish Teacher
Casterton College Rutland
Rutland
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS 1 - UPS3
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Autumn Term 2023
- Apply by:
- 26 June 2023
Job overview
Casterton puts the well-being of its staff at the heart of everything but not in a superficial, corporate, or tokenistic way. For example, we don’t observe lessons (except for ECTs (Early Career Teachers)) and we do not grade them either.
We don’t have mock Ofsted’s or subject focus weeks and we prefer a feedback policy to a marking policy. In other words, staff are trusted rather than micro-managed. Perhaps that is why we recruit so well and retain our staff-because they are treated as professionals and respected.
We are a single academy trust so there is no CEO or distant trust board and no corporate policy to adhere to. Instead, we are a local school serving the local community of Stamford and Rutland. People are often surprised to find our intake is in line with the national average on KS2 prior attainment or EHCPs (education, health, and care plans) because our progress 8 scores are so good, but that’s down to our ethos and approach.
We are proud to be comprehensive and our ethos is ‘ability is not fixed,’ because we believe that in the right circumstances Now Recruiting: every child can do remarkable things. The challenge for us is to create the right circumstances. You may notice this is not your usual glossy, branded, corporate, application pack. That is because we aren’t any of those things. We just do the ordinary things very well, and by trusting our staff, as well as our students, they do wonderful things in return.
Unsurprisingly, although we occupy old buildings that are not exactly state-of-the-art, we have grown by 40% in the last six years and won a host of awards, including being in the top three for Secondary School of the Year 2021. That is not to say, Covid was easy for us because it most certainly was not, and we currently have our fair share of young people with trauma and mental health problems. However, we create a culture of Care, Kindness and Communication that works for most of them and, together, as colleagues, we support one other.
Casterton is a school with a heart and a soul, and I think that counts for a lot.
Carl Smith Principal
Attached documents
About Casterton College Rutland
- Casterton College Rutland
- Ryhall Road, Great Casterton, Stamford
- Rutland
- PE9 4AT
- United Kingdom
Casterton College Rutland is a co-educational secondary academy based in Great Casterton, Rutland, for students aged 11-16. The school is more than 75 years old. It has approximately 900 students and more than 50 classrooms.
Casterton College Rutland offers excellent facilities. There is Wi-Fi throughout the school and every classroom is fully equipped with an interactive whiteboard. There is also a theatre, a large sports hall, and a two-storey café and restaurant. The school’s science block has eight laboratories. The large library is well-stocked and students have access to a state-of-the-art recording studio.
Principal
Carl Smith
Values and vision
Casterton College Rutland believes that whether students are budding actors, sports stars, scientists or politicians, the school has something to offer them. The academy thinks this broad, positive outlook is why its students have gone on to become national sports champions in judo, winners of major writing competitions, award-winning cooks and artists who sell their work professionally.
The secondary school also has a fantastic record in national maths challenges, as well as a track record in nurturing potential Olympians.
Ofsted report
“The principal’s excellent leadership inspires trust and confidence in the whole-school community. Leaders and managers have taken determined action in response to the previous inspection and successfully brought about rapid improvements. Attendance has improved for all groups of pupils. This is also the case for pupils who were persistently absent. Leaders and managers have very high expectations of pupils’ behaviour. Pupils’ behaviour is now outstanding. Pupils take a pride in their appearance and conduct themselves in a mature and sensible manner in lessons and around the school.”
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