Supply Teacher of Latin
Horris Hill School
Hampshire
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Competitive, on site accomodation
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Supply
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 6 May 2024
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to teach Latin at Horris Hill to children in Years 6 to 8. Horris Hill is a school with an extraordinary academic profile. The school was founded by a Master from Winchester College and the school still sends children to a range of highly-regarded, selective senior schools. This role will require teaching to scholarship standards in Year 8. The role will suit either an experienced teacher or a recent graduate. It can also be undertaken as a part-time or full-time role, with the option of teaching further subjects.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- To teach Latin to students in Years 6 to 8.
- To prepare a scholarship class for exams into a range of selective senior schools.
- Develop appropriate challenging work for all students.
- To raise standards of attainment across those year groups, tracking progress effectively.
- Contributing to a broad and balanced curriculum and working with other departments to ensure the curriculum is exciting and engaging.
- Create and complete appropriate schemes of work for the different year groups at the school.
- Create and deploy resources that support the children’s learning in the subject.
- Set and mark homework [prep] each week.
- Undertake the necessary professional development to keep improving your skills in the classroom and across the school.
- Support and encourage outstanding attitudes to learning in the students
- Recognise and celebrate student achievement
- Provide the appropriate learning support for those with Individual Learning Plans.
- Keep up to date with advances and developments in the subject area.
- Contribute more broadly to the co-curricular programme at Horris Hill.
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About Horris Hill School
Horris Hill is a successful co-educational day and boarding school for children aged 2-13, set in the beautiful Berkshire countryside. The school prides itself on helping its pupils balance the demands of formal education with both creative play and organised sports and activities. Dedicated staff nurture an enduring love of learning and curiosity of spirit that will equip pupils with the skills and confidence for whatever challenges they may face in life. Horris Hill enjoys close relationships with several of the country’s top public schools, and ensures every pupil makes the most of the opportunities available to them so that they can be excited and prepared for the next stage of their educational journey.
Horris Hill is part of Forfar Education, a specialist school investment and advisory business, which partners with and manages schools across the world; supporting them to become outstanding centres of excellence where pupils learn and grow. Forfar Education is committed to working in close partnership with school leadership for the benefit of all pupils, celebrating each school’s identity and strengths.
Our core aim is to maintain Horris Hill as a small, selective, academically rigorous family school coupled with an holistic learning environment. We will continue to prepare children for the next stage in their education and to deliver children into the most academically ambitious schools in the world. Horris Hill’s unrivalled culture, which creates a truly rounded education will remain, and the fundamentals of good British values and manners will be reinforced.
Horris Hill is entering an exciting time of expansion and growth. In September 2022 our beautiful all year-year round Nursery was opened and we opened our doors to girls into the lower school. In September 2023, we will see our first cohort of girls in the upper school, as well as opening a girls boarding house.
Our staffing team are critical to the school’s continued success and you will be joining some excellent recent appointments. We welcomed our new Headmaster, Mr Rob Stewart to the school in September 2022. He has an outstanding track record including being a past Eton Housemaster before his first headship of a leading Prep School.
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