Teacher of Design & Technology/Product Design - TMS/UPS + TLR 2c (Dependent on Experience)

This is both a challenging and exciting time to be working at Coundon Court School. I hope that you will be enthused and excited by the prospect of working in a highly oversubscribed school where student behaviour is excellent and levels of attainment exceed national benchmarks in a very challenging educational climate. 

The school has made excellent progress since its 2014 inspection and “RI status”. We were re inspected in November 2016 and our hard work has now secured “Good” status.

As we seek to deliver an “outstanding” school the challenge is to ensure excellence at all levels of operation and maintain high levels of drive and ambition as we encounter a sequence of changes to public examinations and accountability measures. Our main focus is to secure great teaching across the school and as a consequence develop resilient learners. Your growth as a teacher is at the fore of all that we do. 

We require an ambitious and dynamic person to develop Design & Technology at Coundon Court, as we expand as a successful and popular school. We seek to recruit a candidate with the potential to manage high expectation through robust challenge and engaging teaching with a range of designing and technical skills in product design and experience within resistant materials being desirable.

The D & T team enjoyed examination success in 2016 with an average of 74% of the Y11 cohort achieving a C grade or higher across the suite of D & T courses. ‘A’ Level product design is a very popular Post-16 option with 100% pass rate at A2 in 2017. Coundon Court D & T students have regularly achieved success at Coventry Rotary D & T Awards for their outstanding work at both KS4 and KS5.

D & T is a rapidly improving team with new leadership as of September 2016 and a multi disciplined and committed individual will complement our experienced team, scope exists for you to work alongside excellent practitioners in all disciplines to ensure you make significant development as a teacher.

The D & T department is well resourced with a range of CAD/CAM equipment, ICT provision and will shortly benefit from a revamp of learning spaces to create exciting multi functioning learning areas to facilitate the development of the new GCSE D & T and vocational courses. The D & T team are exceptionally well supported by a team of technicians. It is an exciting time to be a Design and Technology Teacher as we welcome new creative thinking and enthusiasm.

You will be exceptionally well supported by a driven senior leadership team and a wider committed team or middle leaders, as you work to develop your teaching skills and further raise attainment levels

We offer a great opportunity for you to develop your career in a dynamic and forward thinking school. As a large school with over 120 teachers you will be exceptionally well supported as we drive to secure consistently outstanding levels of achievement. Successful candidates should look forward to a challenging but productive context within which to work where there is every opportunity to flourish and to lay excellent foundations for career progression. Our pay policy allows for reward where staff generate outstanding outcomes.

Please visit our website www.coundoncourt.org or come and visit our school to see for yourself the potential that exists. Please contact Mrs Linda Phillips who will arrange for a mutually convenient time for your visit. Mr. Alan Scott, Deputy Headteacher is also available to speak to prospective candidates on an informal basis over the telephone.

To obtain further details please contact Mrs Linda Phillips on 024 7633 5121 or email vacancies@coundoncourt.org.

To apply for this position please complete and email the application form to vacancies@coundooncourt.org. You will also need to respond to the following question, on no more than two sides of A4, font size 11:

“How will you use your subject knowledge, pedagogical expertise and wider experiences to become a successful teacher of Design & Technology/Product Design at Coundon Court”

Coundon Court is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful application will be required to apply for an enhance DBS disclosure.

Closing Date: Monday 24th April 2017 (Midday)

Start Date: September 2017