Teacher of Classics
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 25 February 2021
Job overview
Westminster School is looking for a classicist with expert knowledge and insight to play a key role in a flourishing and supportive department.
Traditionally, Classics has occupied a central position in the School’s curriculum, and both Latin and Greek remain compulsory for boys in their first year at the School. It is envisaged that the successful applicant will teach a 50% timetable across 2.5 to 3.5 days, but there is flexibility for the right candidate.
You will need to be able to teach Latin and Greek language and literature at all levels and to inspire in the pupils a lively appreciation of the cultural riches of Classical antiquity. A readiness to teach Latin or Greek prose composition would be advantageous. Prior teaching experience is desirable, but not essential. Detailed schemes of work and specific guidance will be provided by the Head of Department, and appropriate support offered at all stages.
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the School has a special atmosphere.
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Closing date for applications: Midday on Thursday 25 February 2021.
Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including with past employers and the DBS.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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