Teacher of Biology - 12 month FTC
RGS Guildford
Surrey
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 25 April 2024
Job overview
12 month maternity cover, full time
As Teacher of Biology at the RGS you would be joining a team of eight biologists in a well-resourced department. Our boys “display excellent attitudes to their learning” and there is a “high degree of mutual respect between pupils and teachers” (ISI Inspection Report 2022).
You would be teaching boys from the First Form (Year 7) through to A-level where Biology is a popular option with 60-70 boys taking the subject in the Sixth Form.
We are looking for a biology enthusiast to join us in September 2024 and inspire our boys who “display excellent attitudes to their learning” and demonstrate a “high degree of mutual respect between pupils and teachers” (ISI Inspection Report 2022). We particularly welcome applications from candidates with multi-disciplinary experience and the confidence to teach more than one subject.
This post will suit a new entrant to the profession or an experienced teacher. Salary is dependent on experience, well above the national scale and compares favourably with others in the independent sector.
Other benefits include:
- Private medical scheme
- Generous relocation package for those living outside the area
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- Use of on-site gym (at certain times of day)
- Fee reduction for son(s) of staff (after a qualifying period and subject to entrance exam)
The Royal Grammar School has a responsibility for and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The person appointed to this post will be required to apply for an enhanced Disclosure Certificate from the DBS.
Next steps
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About RGS Guildford
Located in the historic town of Guildford, the Royal Grammar School, dating back to 1509, is a leading independent day school for boys aged 11 – 18. Consistently regarded as one of the top three boys’ schools in the country, the RGS combines academic excellence with a passionate commitment to pastoral care and co-curricular opportunity in a friendly, supportive community of approximately 950 students and 120 teaching staff.
The original Tudor building, constructed between 1557 and 1586, is still used by the students; in addition, development of the site continues to provide facilities conducive to teaching and learning in the 21st century and to performance in all areas at the highest level. The School is committed to nurturing its staff and a structured, bespoke approach to professional development means that the whole community is united in a desire to improve, progress and be enriched.
Headmaster
Dr JM Cox
Values and vision
The RGS believes passionately in preparing our students for the challenges of a rapidly-changing, global future, as well as providing them with excellent foundations so that they can have the most ambitious of aspirations at university and beyond. Our bespoke Learning Habits nurture and develop all those transferable skills which will set up our young men irrespective of their chosen path: thinking critically, being independent and creative, being resilient and self-motivated; collaborating and working together, and being equally confident as leader or as part of a team.
Our timeless School Values – inclusivity; scholarship; integrity; respect; tenacity; and service – which are embedded in the curricular and extra-curricular life of the School ensure RGS students emerge as humble, grounded and decent young men committed to making the very best of each and every opportunity and to making a difference to others.
ISI report
“Pupils show an acute sense of respect for each other and recognise the school’s important role, underpinned by its inclusive values, in creating an academically challenging, positive and welcoming community where they can develop and flourish as true individuals.”
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