Teacher of Business
Higham Lane School
Warwickshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Teachers Main Scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 19 May 2019
Job overview
Ref: WARWED000007489
Higham Lane School is delighted to welcome applications for the post of Teacher of Business.
Higham Lane is a large, 11-18 comprehensive academy with Aspiring Teaching School status, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, rail and bus connections. Achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural, sporting and intellectual is equally valued in our diverse five-year, knowledge-rich curriculum. We are enormously proud to have performed in the top 15% (yes that’s top 15%!) of schools in England for student progress at GCSE in 2018 and to have achieved impressive A level results in our high-performing Sixth Form.
Why work for Higham Lane School?
- we empower teachers to teach and students to learn! Students’ behaviour is excellent.
- our SLT and Progress Leaders regularly visit lessons, support teachers and uphold our ethos.
- we are committed to reducing teacher workload by always looking to streamline our ways of working, for example, by making greater use of whole-class feedback, rather than pointlessly marking excessively.
- we value our staff as experts in their subjects.
- staff wellbeing is very important to us. We care about each other.
- we ensure a work-life balance in the way we organise our meetings and inset days and ensure emails are used sparingly.
- we support staff to look after themselves, for example through our health awareness events.
- our regular CPD is second to none and highly-regarded by our staff.
- we provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQSL, NPQML and NPQH as well as OLEVI programmes for improving and outstanding teachers.
- we are actively leading school-to-school support within our local area.
- we get on well together and celebrate our many achievements in a range of social events!
Applications are invited from suitably qualified, experienced and enthusiastic teachers to teach vocational and GCSE Business at Key Stage 4. The ability to teach Business and/or Economics to Key Stage 5 level would also be desirable, but is not essential and would not prevent suitable candidates from being shortlisted, if they meet the person specification.
Please complete the application form that you will find on the School’s website (www.highamlaneschool.co.uk) and email it to jobs@highamlaneschool.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.
If you would like to have a chat about this post or arrange an informal visit to our school to see for yourself the excellent opportunities available, please contact Sharon McKernan, Subject Leader for Business on 024 7638 8123.
The closing date for applications is midday, Monday 20th May 2019.
If you encounter a problem in meeting this deadline, please do contact the School.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will also be taken through the School's vetting procedure.
Higham Lane School is also strongly committed to protecting personal data. Our Privacy Notice, which can be found under the GDPR section on the School website, describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights.
Attached documents
About Higham Lane School
- Higham Lane School
- Shanklin Drive, Nuneaton
- Warwickshire
- CV10 0BJ
- United Kingdom
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a large, 11-18 comprehensive academy, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the CEAT trust and schools within our small trust work closely together bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We offer an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum where we value equally achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural, sporting and intellectual. All students achieve well at Higham Lane School, and in 2023 our Progress 8 figure was 0.56 which is testament to how well students, teachers and parents/carers work together effectively. We are committed to ensuring that an ambitious curriculum, combined with evidence-informed teaching and learning, and excellent behaviour from students make Higham Lane School a thriving environment for all that work and study here. Our Progress 8 figure for 2023 puts us in the top 6% of state-funded mainstream schools for progress, which we are delighted with, and we are committed to building upon this fantastic achievement for our students.
We were extremely pleased to have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in May 2019, one of only a small number of schools in England to have achieved the highest rating that year. We are also delighted that we continue to achieve impressive A level results in our high-performing Sixth Form with an average grade of B- placing the school within the top 4 mainstream Sixth Form schools in Warwickshire and the highest-performing in North Warwickshire, which again shows how students, staff and parents/carers work together effectively. In July 2021, we were granted World Class Schools status, one of a very small number of schools to achieve this.
We are also very excited to be opening a new free school, Higham Lane North Academy, in September 2025. Just a mile away from Higham Lane School, there will be exciting opportunities for the two secondary schools, as part of the wider trust, to work together with many mutual benefits for both students and staff.
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to ‘Work Hard, Be Kind and Take Responsibility within the overall aim to “Be the best you can be!”
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