Teacher of Economics and Business Studies
Chipping Campden School
Gloucestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 March 2025
Job overview
Chipping Campden School
Teacher of Economics and Business Studies
Contract: Permanent, Full Time or Part Time (0.5 FTE or higher)
Salary/Grade: MPS/UPS
Start date: September 2025
A fabulous opportunity to join a highly successful Economics, Business and Enterprise department in an outstanding and highly ambitious school
Thank you for your interest in this post. Chipping Campden School is indeed a very special place – unlike any other. What makes our school so special is its culture and ethos; something that has been grown since the school’s formation in c.1440, enabling students to feel empowered in their learning and inspired to excel.
If you decide to apply to support me in leading our school, you will be an exceptional candidate with a thirst for delivering high quality Economics lessons in a thriving department with an excellent reputation for strong examination results. All this is delivered amongst our committed and very supportive staff. There may also be an opportunity to teach Business Studies in a department that values creativity, work ethic, a good work life balance, and a desire to see our students thrive and succeed. Our students are kind, caring, hardworking, and a pleasure to teach. In addition, our staff are exceptionally supportive of each other with a desire to see one another succeed and do well.
The Economics and Business Studies Department consists of 4 teachers who teach all students at KS4 and KS5. Economics continues to thrive at A Level with another strong uptake in numbers this year who are taking this subject. Business Studies is very popular choice at both GCSE and A Level with the number of students choosing it as an option increasing year by year. This is something that the department is very proud of. Students also have the option of choosing the Cambridge Technical Business course at KS5.
The department is also very proud of the results achieved in recent years, as they have been amongst the best in the school. The results for Business at A-Level were ranked on the ALPS system as 3 last year, and on average we have achieved an A*-C rate of 89.6% over the last 3 examined years. Economics was also ranked Alps 3, and on average we have achieved an A*-C rate of 87.9% over the last 3 examined years. Results at GCSE are also very good, and many of our students choose to continue on and study our subjects at A-Level.
Staff benefits
Every school is unique and ours is no exception. One of our unique selling points is the relatively high average length of service of our staff, and relatively low rate of staff turnover. Neither of these are by chance and are the product of staff feeling trusted, empowered and recognised for leading the roles they do. We feel that a mark of the outstanding school we are is symbolised by the number of staff who choose to send their children to be educated with us.
Below is a list of just some of the ‘pull factors’ that contribute to making our school a great place to work:
• An allocation of three, paid staff wellbeing days, where employees are not required to be in school
• An average of 17.4 students per teacher (full-time equivalent)
• Access to a beautiful property at below market rent situated a short distance from our school (subject to availability)
• An iPad to use in school and at home, to enable seamless remote working, using cloud-based technology.
• Commitment to staff wellbeing through a variety of internal practices, designed to recruit and retain the very best staff.
• Complimentary use of the school sports facilities, including gymnasium, swimming pool and fitness equipment.
• Comprehensive range of staff social events throughout the year.
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Freshly prepared and cooked food available on site
• Generous allocation of directed time - for the 2024/25 year, all teaching staff have at least 14% of the timetabled week allocated as non-contact periods; more for TLR postholders.
• Health and wellbeing support including access to an Employee Assistance Programme (including partners and dependents), confidential counselling services and support from our Staff Wellbeing Group, who meet regularly to ensure that our staff wellbeing is prioritised.
• Outstanding, tailored CPD
• Pension Scheme membership (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pensions Scheme)
• Support in completing relevant external leadership development programmes.
• The school is located within the beautiful Cotswold town of Chipping Campden, with friendly businesses, including a wide range of restaurants and pubs.
For further information regarding pre-application contact and how to apply, please refer to our application pack.
Attached documents
About Chipping Campden School
- Chipping Campden School
- Cidermill Lane, Chipping Campden
- Gloucestershire
- GL55 6HU
- United Kingdom
I am delighted to welcome you to Chipping Campden School. As Principal, it is my privilege to lead this outstanding school and I extend a very warm welcome to students, parents and our friends in the local community and beyond.
Our school is indeed a very special place – unlike any other. The culture and ethos that has been grown since the school’s formation in 1440, enables students to feel empowered in their learning and inspired to excel.
Students are encouraged to pursue ambitious goals, both in terms of their academic studies, but also in their wider interests. Whilst our school has a history of supporting students to achieve excellent examination results in Year 11 and Year 13, we are also very proud of the emphasis that is placed on all students being happy, motivated and engaged in their learning. Student behaviour at our school is exceptional. Our committed team of adults make it their business to encourage our students to be curious about the world they live in and to consider how they can contribute to shaping their future society; locally and globally.
We are unashamedly ambitious for all our students and seek to enable them to develop high aspirations and chase goals that perhaps at first, may seem a little daunting. It is only when we relentlessly pursue these high aspirations and settle for nothing less than our very best, do we enable our students to leave our school being able to successfully compete with their global counterparts, in whatever they choose to do at the end of, what for most, will be a seven-year partnership with us. Students and their families have our support every step of the way, and I firmly believe that the care and guidance that is provided through our extensive pastoral support system is second to none.
There are approximately 1500 students in School, including 350 in the Sixth Form. Every student is treated as an individual while being developed into an active and positive member of the school community and a global citizen. The school offers a very wide range of extra-curricular activities including sport, music and drama and standards here are also very high. There are always opportunities for students to contribute to the wider life of the school through Student Leadership, peer mentoring and charitable fundraising, for example.
When you take a walk around our school and step into lessons, it is impossible not to feel a palpable buzz of excitement. There are so many opportunities for students to flourish, whether that be representing our school on the sports field, performing on stage in our state-of-the-art Performing Arts Centre, leading one of our Student Parliament Ministries or completing the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award; our offering of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities is enormous.
We have a very stable staff of well-qualified and talented professionals, united in our desire to ensure that all students reach their potential. We work collaboratively with parents, partner schools and colleges and external agencies to support individual students in this. There is a well established provision of staff development and regular meetings allowing opportunities to communicate, share good practice and challenge and ensure all are secure in the part they play in the success of the school. We are a partner in the Balcarras/Odyssey Teaching School Partnership, GITEP, Gloucestershire’s leading provider of Initial Teacher Training. We have an excellent mentoring programme, where you will be guided from lesson observation, to paired teaching, to going solo!
We are very fortunate to be located in such an outstandingly attractive town in the Cotswolds. As such, you can enjoy living/working in such an area that is only a short journey from Stratford-Upon-Avon, Cheltenham and Evesham. Moreton-in-Marsh and Honeybourne have a main-line stations with direct links to Oxford and London.
Thank you for taking the time to consider joining our incredible team of staff at our wonderful school.
Gareth Burton
Principal
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