Teacher of English
Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
Worcester, West Midlands
- Expired
- Salary:
- Mainscale/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter or September 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 January 2018
Job overview
We seek to appoint a Teacher of English. The ideal candidate for this vacancy will be an ambitious teacher, possessing outstanding teaching skills and who believes in the potential of all students. If you feel that you have these attributes and skills, and are a suitably qualified, highly motivated professional, then we would like to hear from you. Applications from NQTs are welcome.
The department enjoys first class facilities as a result of an extensive rebuilding programme completed in January 2013. All classrooms contain a modern electronic lectern with an inbuilt networked PC and visualizer, this is connected to an interactive whiteboard with inbuilt audio speakers. The English classrooms are all connected to a lead lesson space that contains a screen and connected LCD screens. The department enjoys a staff workroom connected to this central teaching space. A dedicated photocopier, scanner and printer is also provided in the area.
The English department has celebrated fantastic progress since the opening of the Academy. Notably, 82% of year 11 students achieved a grade 4 or better in English in 2017. The department is hard working and committed to excellence. As a result, students enjoy English and feel confident and successful. We are dedicated to offering students a positive and enriching experience in English, and as such we offer a range of extra-curricular opportunities, including clubs after school and regular trips.
We believe in reading student books so that teachers clearly understand what the students they teach really need to make progress. Furthermore, a clear assessment calendar drives a focus on marking and feedback. The department maintains a high frequency of marking and feedback and the quality of diagnostic marking and target setting has sustained outstanding progress for students over the past five years.
Team work is at the heart of the department. We meet regularly to discuss assessment, student progress and schemes of work. All schemes of work are well resourced and shared in centralised electronic folders. These were highly commended by OFSTED. There is a shared commitment to delivering clear objectives in each half term for each year group. This enables the staff to work collegiately: team planning is a regular feature of the department. Moreover, Continued Professional Development and Learning is a dedicated feature of department meeting time, which supplements the excellent whole school CPDL calendar.
We are now seeking to augment this fantastic team with an equally skilful and committed colleague. We welcome applications from those who are just about to embark on their career and are motivated and driven in a supportive and ambitious environment, as well as from more experienced colleagues who feel they have that something extra to offer such as an extensive track record in teaching to A-level.
Informal visits and conversations about the post are most welcome, please contact Emma Wylie, Curriculum Leader of English via the main school reception on 01905 454627 or by email: ewylie@worcs.tgacademy.org.uk
To find out more about the Academy please visit our website, www.worcs.tgacademy.org.uk
Closing date: Monday, 15th January 2018
All applications are considered on their merit and the post is offered subject to the usual health and criminal record clearance. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
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Tudor Grange Academy has quickly developeded a reputation as a school that is truly in the community. We opened on September 1st 2009 and with the support of the outstanding sponsor school Tudor Grange School, Solihull, we have made great strides forward.
The ethos of the Academy is built around a set of core values:
- Meeting the needs of every student
- Quality in all that we do
- Raising horizons
- Blending tradition and innovation
- The whole is greater than the parts
- Inclusive and collaborative
The Academy provides a broad, balanced, innovative and motivating curriculum, individually tailored to the needs of each student. We are always outward-facing, because learning in the home and the community is as important as learning in the classroom and because we want our students to be active members of their local, national and international communities.
We know that everyone is different & whatever their flair or talent, we prioritise developing their aspirations through new experiences. We dedicate an afternoon a week for most students to pursue new experiences or access the time, people and resources they need to be able to excel in their chosen field through our skills, action and service curriculum.
The students at the Academy are constantly stretched with problem-solving tasks demanding higher-order thinking and new applications of prior learning. Though we feel that the students need to be aware of the individual disciplines of subjects we are careful to organise our curriculum so that they are able to recognise links between their learning and see the relevance of the skills they are developing in real-life contexts.
Central to the Academy is the college structure which has a focus on building a culture of success where achievement is highly valued, celebrated and rewarded. The five college structure allows us to create `schools within the school' so that students really feel that they are a part of their learning community and so that we are alert to and able to respond to the ever-changing needs of every individual in the Academy.
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