Teacher of Business
Poynton High School
Cheshire East
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 11 May 2024
Job overview
Thank you for your interest in working at our school. Poynton High is a great school, full of inspirational young people and exceptionally talented staff. As Headteacher I am proud to have such a supportive, expert and engaged staff team and I hope that you will wish to move forward on your application and look to join us in due course.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and inspiring Teacher of Business to work with a team of highly skilled colleagues who form part of the broader Humanities Team. The successful candidate will be passionate about Business, committed to delivering high standards of teaching and learning and thrive on delivering the subject across different key stages.
This position offers someone with good communication and interpersonal skills a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious and highly specialist team within an ambitious and forward-thinking school. Applicants must be committed to delivering high standards of teaching and learning. This post would be suitable for an early career or more experienced teacher.
Our school has served the families of Poynton, Disley, Adlington and surrounding areas since 1972 and we lie at the heart of this community’s learning needs. We pride ourselves on our vision as a school which serves our whole community and which works in partnership with our colleagues in other schools. We have approximately 1500 students in Years 7 to 13 and offer a wide range of A levels in our successful Sixth Form.
Our staff support our students in an extraordinary range of ways and at the heart of this lies our House System. Every member of staff and every student is in one of our four Houses and we have an extensive programme of House Activities on offer; from House Fishing and House General Knowledge to House Dragons’ Den; as well as the traditional football, rugby, lacrosse, athletics, basketball, etc.
The school motto is INSPIRE ACHIEVE CELEBRATE and we apply that to every element of school life. Our role as staff is to ensure that we inspire every student to achieve the best they possibly can in everything they do, whether that be academic, sporting, cultural or in the community and at the heart of our culture is a celebration of that achievement. We hope that as a prospective member of staff you will share our mission to “inspire and empower all within our learning community to fulfil their individual potential and ambitions so that all are able to be active and successful citizens in our global society”.
I would encourage you to visit our website (www.phs.cheshire.sch.uk) to get a better understanding of life here at Poynton High and if you have any questions that you would like to ask please do not hesitate to contact me directly on head@phs.cheshire.sch.uk. I very much hope that you want to join our team and I look forward to receiving an application from you in due course. Good luck!
For more information, please see attached job pack.
Attached documents
About Poynton High School
Poynton High School and Performing Arts College is an 11-18 school providing high quality education to the communities of Poynton, Disley, Adlington and Pott Shrigley. An increasing number of parents each year are also choosing to send their children to Poynton High School from further afield, and we welcome this widening community.
With 1450 students on roll, including a sixth form of over 300, our school is large and this allows us to offer a very wide range of subjects and opportunities beyond the classroom.
We are proud of the high standards we achieve academically for young people of all abilities. We are equally proud of the way we help our young people grow into responsible and healthy adults. Through Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education, Drama, Dance, Music, P.E., a thriving House system, a caring and supportive Pastoral system and a wealth of clubs and activities, we seek to fulfil our mission statement:
“WE WILL INSPIRE AND EMPOWER ALL IN OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY TO FULFIL THEIR INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL AND AMBITIONS SO THAT ALL ARE ABLE TO BE ACTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL CITIZENS IN OUR GLOBAL SOCIETY”
Poynton High School and Performing Arts College is consistently one of the highest achieving schools in the North West. Each year many of our students move on to Higher Education studying the full range of degree courses at Universities across the UK including Oxford and Cambridge. Over the years we have developed excellent relationships with many higher education establishments. At the same time as helping our older students to achieve their full academic potential, we also encourage them to work in a variety of ways with younger students in the school. In this way, we make the most of the opportunities offered by being an 11-18 educational community and all students benefit.
We believe strongly in being fully involved in our community. We work closely with our local primary schools to build curriculum and social links and, as the geographical area for our intake extends, we are developing our transition programme to help all our young people to make the transfer from primary to secondary education successfully. A Work Experience programme for all of Year 12 is also a valuable opportunity to help students learn about the world of work. We are an inclusive community and celebrate our diversity, not least in the extensive range of activities we offer which allow our students to extend their community links working with others locally, nationally and globally too.
The pastoral care of our students is a responsibility we take very seriously. To ensure each student is valued as an individual, our young people are welcomed into school by a Director of Learning for Transition and Year 7, specialising in ensuring a smooth transition to secondary school. Students stay with the same form tutor for Years 7 – 11 and their personal welfare is overseen by a team of Directors of Learning and Student Support Leaders during Years 7 -11. The Pastoral Leaders do not have a teaching commitment and they therefore ensure that parents can have personal contact with a member of staff at any point during a school day. The relationships developed in this way help us to know your children very well and to support them in making the most of the learning opportunities provided. A specialist team of staff working in the Sixth Form ensures that students receive the very best care and advice to help them prepare for their futures.
Being an 11-18 school also helps us to attract high quality teachers who want the opportunity to teach across the whole age and ability range. We go to great lengths to appoint the best teachers, because we know how crucial that is.
Students joining our Sixth Form benefit from the new state of the art Sixth Form Centre. The centre houses ICT Suites, general teaching rooms, study areas and a cafe. Students have the opportunity to study a wide range of A levels in the Sixth Form.
We aim to work with parents to bring out the best in all our young people. We have a commitment to keep parents informed of progress and always welcome contact from you.
Matthew Dean
Head Teacher
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