Teacher of Art and Graphics
Lawn Manor Academy
Swindon
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2021
- Apply by:
- 5 May 2021
Job overview
Teacher of Art and Graphics
MPS/UPS
Required: September 2021
Deadline: 09.00 5th May 2021
Interview: W/C 10th May 2021
Job Overview
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated Arts and Graphics Teacher to join our thriving Arts and Graphics department. The successful applicant will be required to teach at all levels. We offer exceptional opportunities for professional development.
Why Choose us?
Lawn Manor Academy is part of the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust (RWBAT) based in Swindon. We offer a fantastic benefits scheme, with discounts on food and clothes retailers, to holidays and cinema with online fitness and recipes from Hello Fresh. Our school is set in the beautiful Lawn Manor Woods in Old Town Swindon.
What we offer
• The opportunity of working within a supportive, friendly and well-run school
• A strong commitment to your professional development and career management
• Excellent CPD opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching.
• A successful NQT support program
• Onsite parking
• Pension Scheme
• Courteous and hardworking pupils
Job Requirements
• To work as part of a team to deliver high quality lessons with an agreed scheme of work in line with the National Curriculum and other internal and external examination requirements.
• Monitor, evaluate, assess and review the work of individual students and groups of students in line with school policies to ensure continuous improvement of standards.
• To ensure high standards of achievement and attainment.
• To be responsible for the discipline of all students in your classroom, before, during and after the lesson.
• To manage the work of any additional adults in your lessons including Teaching Assistants and learning mentors.
• Maintain an excellent environment and culture for learning in the faculty through use of display, the school's reward and behaviour systems.
• To be responsible for the Health, Safety and Welfare of students in accordance with the Council's Policy and Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
The successful candidate will have:
• Degree status (First/2:1/2.2)
• Qualified Teacher Status QTS or currently completing Teacher Training.
• Excellent subject knowledge
• Recent experience of teaching at both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
• Effective Management of Teaching Assistants and other assigned adults
• Support for student sub-groups including those with SEN
• Communication skills, including good written English.
• The ability to work towards deadlines
• Have a professional appearance.
For more information download the pack below.
Attached documents
About Lawn Manor Academy
Lawn Manor Academy is proud to be part of Ascend Learning Trust. We were the first school to join ALT in September 2017 and we enjoy close links with all ALT schools. We believe that within each child there is a real potential to achieve and that as teachers, it is our job to ensure that this potential is met through their academic studies and high expectations.
Lawn Manor Academy is an all-ability school and we place great emphasis on inclusive education. We have an excellent pastoral care system to support pupils and the community. We offer a rounded curriculum to suit children of all abilities with excellent facilities to support this. We take pride in the focus we give to each child as an individual and how we help them to develop and grow to achieve well and be a good citizen.
We have an ambitious vision for our school with a robust strategy for achieving it. Our I Learn values are at the heart of our strategies for success.
Working at Lawn Manor Academy is both rewarding and inspiring. We are an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and different cultures daily. We are committed to extremely high standards of behaviour and have fostered an environment where the relationships that exist within the school, and the polite and respectful atmosphere that we enjoy, are commented on by all who visit our school.
By teaching our pupils how to demand the best of themselves, we will send them out into the world ready to embrace the challenges they will meet; whether they are in the boardroom, on the stage, in the lab or on the sports field at home or abroad. A positive mind-set is important at Lawn Manor Academy.
We take pride in “Inspiring and Creating Futures for All”.
Sandra Muir
Headteacher
SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT
Ascend Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual-orientation or religion.
Please note any position that involves working with children requires declaration of ALL convictions/cautions regardless of whether these are deemed as spent and a DBS check will be carried out before any employment commences.
In line with KCSIE 2022 and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further guidance and will be asked to clarify their online presence.
References will be obtained before interview at shortlisting stage and may be used in the interview process. If previous employment has included working with children, then at least one referee must be from this employment, regardless of whether this is the current or most recent employment, any gaps in employment must be detailed and an explanation provided in the relevant section.
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