Teacher of French or Spanish
Woolmer Hill School
Haslemere, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main/UPS £33,074 - £50,470 (full-time equivalent)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 31 March 2025
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, ambitious and passionate Teacher of Languages (French/Spanish) to join our strong and high-performing Languages team. We are looking for someone who is an excellent teacher and who can promote their love of languages to our students. This is an exciting opportunity for an excellent classroom practitioner to join a fantastic team and school. We welcome applications from ECT teachers just starting out on their teaching career and can offer a very supportive approach to the ECT programme; we also welcome applications from more experienced teachers. A passion for languages and the many opportunities they can open for students is key.
The successful candidate will join a close, friendly and supportive team of teachers, all of whom are specialists in the subject. We are looking for a candidate with the skills and experience to make a real difference and develop our students’ love of languages. We are looking for someone who will be a team player in this oversubscribed, friendly and high-achieving school where we challenge all students and staff to be the best they can be.
We are looking for:
- a teacher of French or Spanish to GCSE level with a track record of excellent student progress (either from an ITT programme or current/previous post) and the ability to teach French and Spanish at Key Stage 3
- a strong presence and the ability to form excellent relationships with students, and all stakeholders
- an innovative thinker who is able to find creative solutions and think on their feet
- a driven and motivated professional who works hard and always strives to ensure students have the very best learning experience in languages
- a teacher who is keen to develop and progress within the profession
We are looking for someone with the commitment and energy to continue to drive forward our high standards and high outcomes in languages. Our teachers also have excellent support from our extended Student Support Team, including the Welfare Team, Engagement Team and Learning Support team. We have a team of excellent and dedicated teachers, tutors and Middle Leaders across the school and our students are a delight to work with and achieve consistently excellent progress in their GCSEs (P8 + 0.88 2024).
We have a strong induction programme for all new staff, and support staff through their ECT programme, and support more experienced staff with undertaking NPQs. As part of a multi academy trust there are many opportunities for collaboration and sharing of good practice across the member schools.
We are an oversubscribed and friendly school with big ambitions and our staff and students are “proud to belong … proud to achieve”. Our growing school has undergone significant refurbishment over the last three years, including a recent state-of-the-art extension to our Drama studio and a new English block and library completed in August 2024.
We are an 11-16 Academy of 900 students and our school is situated in a fantastic location on the outskirts of Haslemere. Haslemere lies in Surrey, on the border with Hampshire and West Sussex and we have excellent road and rail links to neighbouring counties. We are situated just 3 minutes’ drive off the main A3 and we are also fortunate to have a train station in Haslemere on the mainline from Portsmouth to London Waterloo. This makes us very accessible from the South Coast or outer London areas by train or car.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: Midday on Monday 31st March 2025.
We reserve the right to interview early if we receive suitable applications, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Woolmer Hill is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and equality and diversity in all aspects of employment. The successful applicant will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About Woolmer Hill School
Proud to belong – Proud to achieve
“Pupils are overwhelmingly respectful and polite”
“There is a happy atmosphere in this school. Staff know pupils well and care about them. Relationships are overwhelmingly positive. The values of ‘proud to belong, proud to achieve’ are reflected in pupils’ behaviour generally and in how they approach their work.”
OFSTED, January 2023
Woolmer Hill is a successful 11-16 mixed comprehensive academy based on a wonderful 25-acre site on the outskirts of Haslemere on the Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire borders. The school attracts students from a wide area including Thursley, Grayshott, Beacon Hill, Chiddingfold, Grayswood, Hindhead, Liphook, Churt, and Farnham, as well as Haslemere itself. We are a growing, over-subscribed and friendly school with a strong and supportive community spirit and inclusive ethos. We have high expectations of all members of our school community.
We have an inclusive approach to educating the whole person, based upon an ethos of mutual respect and active involvement in all aspects of school life. We believe that all members of our school community should be challenged to achieve their full potential. We place a great deal of emphasis on developing independent, life-long learners and work closely with our post-16 partners to ensure that our students have the qualities necessary to succeed in post-16 settings and beyond to university and the workplace. Our students are a wonderful group of young people to work with.
It is important to us that the views and contributions of our students are valued and that they are involved in decisions that affect their school. We have an active House Council and student leadership group, who meet regularly to discuss whole-school matters or to lead their own projects.
We have a House system with four houses, through which we encourage competition in a wider variety of academic, sporting and fun competitions each term. The Houses are led by staff House Leaders with student House Captains, which affords another great opportunity for student leadership.
We make maximum use of the exceptional resources available to us on the site, including our 25 acre grounds and The Edge sports centre with its large multi-purpose sports’ hall and two flood lit all-weather pitches.
Since April 2017, we have been a member of the Weydon Multi Academy Trust (WMAT), which provides many opportunities for students and staff to collaborate. Please see the WMAT staff prospectus for more details.
We are also an active member of the Waverley Federation, which includes ourselves, Broadwater, Glebelands and Rodborough schools working in partnership with Godalming College. This partnership allows our students to access a range of vocationally related courses at KS4 that the Federation procures from a number of different centres. The Waverley Federation also supports students in Key Stages 3 and 4 through the Aspire project. This is a project that is intended to support students who struggle with the demands of full-time school-based programmes and offers a range of courses and experiences aimed at supporting them to integrate back into mainstream education later in their educational careers.
We offer a wide range of subjects taught by specialist teachers with specialist resources. We organize our curriculum in order to maximise opportunities for our students and ensure a broad and balanced three-year KS3 curriculum. We are organised on a faculty basis with English, Mathematics, and Science at the core. The vast majority of our Year 11 students continue with full-time education at Sixth Form level, with many going to Godalming College and other students pursue their studies at various other colleges in the local area.
The staff are the most important resource in any school, at Woolmer Hill we have an excellent staff team, and both teachers and associate staff make a valuable contribution to the life of the school. The quality of teaching is very good and we work hard to make the experience for the students in the classroom the best that it can be. Teachers are supported by curriculum support staff and technicians. The Admin team encompasses a broad range of administrative roles that enable us to function efficiently as an Academy without over-burdening teachers with administrative tasks. All staff are generous in their use of free time to support individual students, events and activities outside the classroom.
Surrey schools are well known for their standard of academic excellence. Woolmer Hill is no exception. We are a successful school and achieve very high standards across the board, and with a Progress 8 Score of +0.88 in 2024 we are the top performing 11-16 secondary school in Surrey. We constantly work hard to develop and improve both opportunities and outcomes for all our students. We have high expectations of anyone who joins our team, but are in no doubt that the professional and personal rewards for those who work with our students are many.
Visit our website www.woolmerhill.surrey.sch.uk for more information or visit us to see the school in action.
“One parent described the school as having ‘a family approach’, a view mirrored by staff and students during the inspection”
OFSTED, January 2023
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