Teacher of Design Technology
Queensbridge School
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR/UPR
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2017
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Teacher of Design Technology who will share our determination to transform the life chances of our pupils.
Queensbridge School is an 11 - 16 comprehensive, friendly and oversubscribed all-ability Foundation School. Ofsted has graded the school as ‘outstanding’ in all categories and identified ‘…..”Its highly imaginative and innovative curriculum” where “students make outstanding and rapid progress”.
You will be joining a small, high energy department, so we are seeking outstanding candidates who can realise the highest possible quality of provision to enable the best possible outcomes for students.
The successful candidate will:
- Have excellent classroom management skills and a commitment to the best possible outcomes for all students.
- Excellent subject knowledge
- Be prepared approach the stimulus materials in exciting and creative ways
- Be infectiously enthusiastic about Design Technology with a real flair and passion to develop an engaging and innovative curriculum which will inspire and engage our students.
We are committed to excellence in teaching and learning and to support this we have a high quality bespoke programme for teachers at all stages of their professional career.
Informal visits to our school welcome. NQT applications welcome.
Closing Date: Monday 16 October 2017 at 9am
Should you require an application pack then please visit our website
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Queensbridge School, Queensbridge Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8QB, Tel 0121 464 5566, website www.queensbridge.bham.sch.uk
About Queensbridge School
- Queensbridge School
- Queensbridge Road, Moseley, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B13 8QB
- United Kingdom
Queensbridge School is a co-educational, non-denominational secondary school in the Moseley suburb of Birmingham. Originally built in the 1950s, the school now has approximately 700 pupils aged 11-16. It is a specialist college in visual and performing arts.
Queensbridge School enjoys close working relations with Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The area of Moseley has served as a source for literary inspiration: JRR Tolkien based the tranquil Shire in The Lord of the Rings on Sarehole Mill.
Headteacher
Mr Harpinder Singh
Values and vision
Queensbridge understands its responsibility to students in providing a moral, compassionate education that prepares them for the wider world. Part of this is the fostering of strong relationships, within the school and the Moseley community.
Staff at Queensbridge understand the importance of academic achievements, and that success here can shape future careers. In its role as a specialist arts college, the secondary school encourages students in creative endeavours, both for educational benefit and as an expressive outlet.
More than half of students attend a residential experience each year, such as sailing and trips abroad. The design technology and PE facilities have recently undergone extensive upgrades.
Ofsted report
“Teachers have very high expectations for what students can achieve. Students respond very well to their challenge and make excellent contributions to their own and each other’s learning. They grasp enthusiastically all opportunities to work in pairs and groups, or independently.”
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