Teacher of Chemistry
Bromley High School
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 11 March 2021
Job overview
Part time (0.6 FTE)
If you have a passion for Chemistry and the ability to communicate and engage pupils in effective and exciting learning, this is an exciting opportunity to work with pupils who display exemplary scientific knowledge and interest.
You will be joining busy and dynamic department where pupils make excellent progress across each key stage. All members of the department work collaboratively sharing both good practice and resources.
With your passion for Chemistry, you will contribute to providing an excellent education by teaching with expertise and enthusiasm and using an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, including e-learning, which meet learners’ needs and expectations. The emphasis of classes will be to focus on investigative and analytical skills as well as the more familiar areas of subject content.
Excellent, up-to-date subject knowledge is essential, and you will need to be willing to make a generous contribution to the co-curricular activities of the School.
The department would support teacher training for a suitably qualified graduate. In 2018 the school was recognized by Istip as a centre of excellence for training and development of new teachers.
Why Bromley High School:
Bromley High School is a consistently oversubscribed, academically selective girls’ school with 900 pupils from 4-18, occupying a 25-acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent.
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- Free school lunches
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
- Access to school multi-gym, swimming pool, yoga classes
For further details and to apply please click the apply button.
Any candidate wishing to seek additional information should contact: Dr Adrian Rowley, Head of Science – a.rowley@bro.gdst.net
Applications must be received by 8.00am on Thursday 11th March 2021.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th March 2021.
Please note that early applications are encouraged and the position may be closed sooner in the event of sufficient suitable applications being received.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
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About Bromley High School
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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.
A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.
The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.
Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing. In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.
Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.
Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system. In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.
The Girls’ Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).
Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
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