Teacher of Chemistry
Forest School
Waltham Forest
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2023 or September 2023
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2023
Job overview
The Teacher of Chemistry plays a crucial role supporting pupils in learning key scientific knowledge and skills, and instilling in students a curiosity and enthusiasm for learning Science and Chemistry. Chemistry is one of the most popular subject choices at Forest, and the Teacher of Chemistry will play a key role in maintaining and developing this high uptake.
The successful applicant will have outstanding subject knowledge and a range of highly effective strategies to enable pupils to make excellent progress. The Teacher of Chemistry will use both formative and summative assessment techniques to effectively assess student understanding, diagnose misconceptions and provide targeted feedback.
Chemistry occupies a special place in the academic life of Forest School. It is a large and tremendously successful department, with exceptionally high student uptake at GCSE and A-level. A number of Forest pupils go on to read Chemistry, Natural Sciences and cognate disciplines at a range of leading universities.
About Forest
Forest is a large, vibrant school, with approximately 1500 pupils from 4 to 18. Our traditional House structure means that each pupil is treated as an individual, of whom we have the highest expectations, while our size enables us to offer breadth and depth of opportunity.
Location
Forest is a city school surrounded by Epping Forest, within easy walking distance of Snaresbrook Central line tube station and Wood Street Overground station.
Why work at Forest?
There are many benefits of working at Forest school as staff are our single most important asset. Key benefits include:
- Generous CPD budget
- Comprehensive Professional Development Review system
- Opportunities to contribute to the wider community via our extensive Outreach Programme
- Free hot lunch (takeaway sandwich lunch also available) and refreshments throughout the day
- 20% fee remission (pro-rata for part time staff) for children attending Forest which is applicable Y3-Y13
- Subsidised membership to the Sylvestrian Leisure Centre
- Membership of the School's Group Life Assurance scheme and Personal Accident Scheme
- Contribution towards private medical insurance fees
- Membership of a pension scheme
Closing Date: Monday 30 January 2023, 8.00am
Interviews: Thursday 9 February 2023
The preferred start date for this role is April 2023 but we will consider a September 2023 start.
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About Forest School
Forest is an outstanding all-round School, well known for its friendly, welcoming ethos, and full of 1450 bright sparky pupils aged 4-18. We are lucky to be located in this part of North East London, allowing us to attract pupils from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds who share in being academically ambitious, but are grounded, engaging and very loyal to the School. Described by the Good Schools Guide as a ‘powerhouse with a heart’ and enjoying a reputation for strong expert teaching and learning, Forest pupils are encouraged to find success on all fronts through the breadth of the opportunities on offer to them.
We aim to develop the whole pupil through our distinct educational provision which gives equal weight to academic, co-curricular and pastoral strands of school life. To this end, Forest promotes all-round educational excellence, recognising that advancement to higher education or the world of work requires top academic grades but keen to develop a sense of service in the pupils and an awareness of their responsibilities to other people, as well as themselves. Forest is recognised as a school that is always evolving, self-evaluating and planning strategically for its future, while valuing its heritage and its location, all of which makes our community a stimulating one to work in for our 150+ teachers and 100+ non-teaching staff.
For full details about working at Forest School please visit our website www.forest.org.uk
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