Teacher of Classics
Bromley High School
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2017
- Apply by:
- 4 November 2016
Job overview
Part time / Fixed term until end of Summer 2017
We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified or experienced Teacher of Classics to play a key role in a successful Classics Department.
As an inspirational and dynamic Classics teacher you will use your up-to-date subject knowledge and experience of teaching Latin and Classical Civilisation to GCSE and A Level to provide an excellent education for all the pupils you teach. You will teach with expertise and enthusiasm, offering support to the learning of individual students and also contribute to the school’s pastoral system.
You will benefit from working in a thriving department, which offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities. The department runs annual trips to Bath and Italy; has an extracurricular Classics society with notable guest speakers; and recently held its first Classics Conference.
If you have an excellent track record of teaching Classics and can contribute to the department’s continued success we would be delighted to hear from you.
Bromley High School occupies a 25-acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent. Easily accessible by train from central London, it offers space to breathe with the convenience of the city on its doorstep.
For further details and to apply please click the apply button.
Applications must be received by 9am on Friday 4th November 2016.
Interviews will take place on the Monday 14th November 2016.
Bromley High School and the GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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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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