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Teacher of French and Spanish (Trainee)

Teacher of French and Spanish (Trainee)

Monkton Senior School

Bath

  • Expired
Salary:
According to the Monkton Combe Teaching Staff Salary Scale
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
September 2021 for 1 year
Apply by:
8 March 2021

Job overview

Monkton is seeking to appoint a full-time teacher of French and Spanish to join our Language Department from September 2021. The role is a 1-year fixed term contract with the option for extension following both successfully passing the PGCE and an assessment of the school’s needs. 

The salary offered is in accordance with the Monkton Combe Teaching Staff Salary Scale from which university fees will be paid in a tax efficient way through your salary. A reduced lesson allocation will be given to reflect the time required for study. 

In addition to teaching an academic timetable, all staff at Monkton are involved with the wider life of a busy boarding-ethos school. As such, a full-time teacher will coach or support two terms of sport, or equivalent - eg CCF, drama, community service - have a tutor group, supervise evening prep once a week in a boarding house, and run a co-curricular activity. Applicants should make clear in their application how they would see themselves contributing to school life in these wider ways; applications which focus solely on classroom practice are likely to be less successful.

How to Apply

For further information and to apply, please visit www.monktoncombeschool.com 

Early applications are encouraged.

Closing date: 9am on Monday 8th March 2021

Interview date: w/c 8th March 2021

Safeguarding

Monkton Combe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service.

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About Monkton Senior School

Our vision: Monkton inspires young people to become confident, kind and ambitious adults who live fulfilling lives.

Our mission: Monkton thinks differently. We start with a proactive pastoral environment to develop academically strong enthusiastic learners within a living Christian ethos.

Our values: Confidence, Humility, Integrity, Service 

If you share this vision for a different way of doing schooling, then applying for a role at Monkton could be a professionally life-changing decision. We take our staff development seriously - in fact as seriously as we take our students’ development; both constituencies share the same aims:

‘A community empowered by its growth mindset, consistently evaluating and re-evaluating progress, acknowledging failure, celebrating success, setting new targets and constantly improving’

A coaching culture sits at the heart of our professional development strategy to enable our colleagues to reflect and explore their next steps. Our partnership with the Expansive Education Network run by Prof Bill Lucas at Winchester University means there is even the scope to engage in supported action research.

Boarding is part of the ethos of Monkton rather than a description of where some of its students stay the night. Many of the day students, who make up about 40% of the student body, often stay till 8.30 or later in the evening. ‘After school’ has more to do with university than tea time.

As such, teachers who thrive at Monkton understand and engage with this ethos as part of the vocation of choosing to teach here. Learning, for a Monkton teacher, happens as much in the classroom as outside it. 

We aim to develop positive attitudes to learning which build on self-regulation and the notion of neuroplasticity. Students are engaged in growing their self-awareness and setting their own targets helped with a 1-1 tutoring programme which emphasises the tutor as coach rather than mentor.

Our pastoral care is market leading: in partnership with Mind.world we pioneered their groundbreaking pastoral tracking system which helps us track and improve our students’ emotional development. This is now used in leading schools around the UK and the world; Monkton is central as a key training hub.

Monkton is set in the beautiful Midford valley, just 3 miles outside Bath. The campus is an inspirational place to live and work, with Georgian Bath stone buildings blended with innovative modern design capturing a school with a clear heritage but 21st century aspirations. 

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Applications closed