Teacher of English and Literacy Lead
Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
Croydon
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS including Outer London Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 25 November 2024
Job overview
Position: Teacher of English and Literacy Lead
Location: Croydon, Surrey CR0 5JQ
Required for: Monday 6th January 2025
Contract: Permanent
Salary: MPS/UPS including Outer London Allowance
Closing Date: Monday 25th November 2024
Interview Date: TBC
- Teach from KS3 to A Level in both Language and Literature
- Use creativity to develop rich and exciting lessons to cater for all pupils
- Join a highly successful and committed team with excellent results
- Work alongside knowledgeable and experienced colleagues
- Be part of a school that has been in Croydon for over 300 years, with strong traditions and wide-ranging extra-curricular activities
- Develop professionally and personally in a secure, but lively atmosphere
- Model our pastoral care and our Christian ethos
We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative English teacher with a passion for their subject and a commitment to high quality teaching. Excellent subject knowledge and commitment to continually develop it. Each member of the department is seen as an integral part of the team, working together sharing ideas and developing resources cohesively. The successful candidate will have the capacity to bring innovative ideas to the classroom and show a strong record of raising student attainment through their teaching.
The English Department is a strong department that is well respected within our school. The department believe in mixed ability teaching at all levels from KS3 up to KS5. We have a history of strong examination results at GCSE and A Level in both English Language and English Literature. For the past three years, the Department has been focusing on developing an innovative KS3 curriculum that prepares pupils for the demands of the strengthened GCSE and broadens their understanding, and enjoyment of Literature and Language. To further enrich pupils’ experience of English, we offer a variety of visits and extra-curricular clubs. We pride ourselves on working together as a team, planning collaboratively and supporting each other in every aspect of day-to-day teaching and learning.
Total number of pupils - 767 pupils (Sixth Form 75)
Exam Results can be viewed via - https://www.archten.croydon.sch.uk/academicresults
Archbishop Tenison's is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure check by the Criminal Records Bureau; online checks will be carried out.
Application Process: Please submit your application and covering letter to Mr Parrish, Headteacher detailing your suitability for the role by Monday 25th November 2024. Please visit the staff recruitment page via the school website https://www.archten.croydon.sch.uk/staffrecruitment
An initial phone call or visit to explore possibilities and express interest is much encouraged. Please email Mrs Andrew, Headteacher's PA
via patoheadteacher@archten.croydon.sch.uk
or call 020 8688 4014.
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About Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- Selborne Road, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR0 5JQ
- United Kingdom
The School
In 1714 the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, founded a school for some "ten poor boys and ten poor girls" on a site which has since become Croydon's popular Whitgift Shopping Centre. As we enter our 310th year, and three sites later, Archbishop Tenison's is now situated in the leafy Park Hill area of the town, a 5 minute bus ride or fifteen minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station.
Archbishop Tenison's is an 11-18 voluntary aided, mixed comprehensive school, part of the educational provision of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and the London Borough of Croydon.
The school is well regarded locally for its high academic standards, an academic Sixth Form, the very high level of pastoral care provided for the pupils and its Christian ethos. Assemblies are an important part of school life; there is an annual Eucharist for each year group; all students take Religious Studies at GCSE, with a good number continuing to A Level.
The School caters for around 760 pupils, including the Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed every year and as a result it is necessary for the Governors to rank applicants for the 150 places in Year 7 according to the schools admission criteria, with places allocated largely on the basis of church membership, with 20% of places allocated to feeder schools and 20% of places allocated to all. No entrance examination is set.
Many of our pupils stay on into the Sixth Form and students also join from other schools in the Borough and beyond. The Sixth Form offers a range of AS and A Level courses, together with some vocational courses. Most of the Year 13 proceed to Higher Education each year, gaining entry to top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
Archbishop Tenison’s aims to provide an education which is broad, balanced, relevant and accessible to the diverse and close-knit community it serves.
The school is well regarded in the area for its music, drama and sport. Students are active in debating and public speaking. We regularly achieve very impressive results in National Mathematical Challenges. There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities with around 40 different clubs and societies. Charity support also features strongly in the life of the Sixth Form and the school.
The rewarding aspect of working at Archbishop Tenison's is reflected by the way in which staff stay at the school and the high level of staff commitment to extra-curricular activities mentioned earlier. Moreover, each year there are educational journeys in the UK and abroad, residential field courses, Duke of Edinburgh and Christian
The school has featured in a number of guides to good state schools and was described as "Good" in our last OFSTED Report. The school has both a strong sense of traditional values and a readiness to embrace new ideas which are of real benefit to the pupils and students. We are looking for the person appointed to this post to be part of a school with both a distinguished history and a vision of Christian educational purpose.
Transportation
London Borough of Croydon, the largest London Borough, has good transport links, by train Central London only twenty minutes away, Gatwick 30 minutes and Brighton approximately forty minutes.
ECTs, CPD, ITTs and School Direct
At Archbishop Tenison’s we pride ourselves in our successful trainee teacher and ECT training programmes. We have a number of support staff that have taken up teacher training, becoming very successful subject teachers, heads of year and subject leaders. Every academic year we have numerous PGCE, School Direct and Work Experience students either training with us or using our School as one of their professional placements.
Southeast Learning Alliance (SELA) - An Initial Teacher Training Programme
At Archbishop Tenison’s we are in partnership with a number of schools in the local area to provide high quality, bespoke training opportunities for all our trainees. The Initial Teacher Training packages offered by SELA allow prospective teachers to train in a dynamic educational setting across fourteen highly different but successful schools in the Croydon and Crawley areas. The Alliance comprises seven comprehensive secondary schools and seven primary schools, all of whom are working in partnership to help produce high quality and well-trained teachers of the future. The in-school training students receive is complemented by the accredited provider, where the learning is subject specific and helps to fully prepare students for delivery of the National Curriculum. All of the training that students engage with is aligned with the Core Content Framework, ensuring a smooth transition into being an Early Careers Teacher following the Early Career Framework.
More information can be found at: https://sela-teacher-training.org/
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