Teacher of French
Bedales School
Petersfield, Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Commensurate with experience
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 1 September 2020
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a part-time teacher (12 – 16 periods) of French starting from September 2020. The ability to teach French to GCSE is a necessity but the ability to offer A Level would be valuable.
The Bedales languages department offers, French, Spanish, Russian and Latin with French being an immensely popular choice of language at GCSE and at A Level. The department has enjoyed consistently excellent results. All students study two languages in Block 3 (year 9) and must choose one language minimum to GCSE.
To succeed in this post, you will be highly motivated, energetic and enthusiastic and be in tune with the Bedales founding of holistic principles of educating ‘head, hand and heart.’ This is a wonderful opportunity to work within a friendly, outward-looking and unique department. The ability to be flexible in the face of a changing approach to educating during these challenging times is essential. Classroom experience is essential.
We encourage early application as we offer on-going interview dates for candidates who match the job criteria. Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.
Our school is a unique educational establishment, set in the beautiful Hampshire countryside. Our aim is to create an environment where questioning, divergent thinking and freedom to learn from mistakes are all encouraged. Central to our success is the sense that each person is a member of our community whose voice is entitled to be heard and treated with respect. Both our staff and students expect of each other the best kind of relationships – co-operative, authentic and trustful.
Benefits
Our benefits include on-site parking, free school lunches during term time, life assurance, pension and personal accident cover.
For further information and to apply, please visit: www.bedales.org.uk/our-school/about-bedales/job-vacancies
Closing date: 17 July 2020
CVs cannot be accepted in lieu of an application form. Recruitment and advertising agency support is not required for this vacancy.
Bedales is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All teaching posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful applicants will undergo safeguarding screening including an enhanced DBS and Barred List check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and a Prohibition from Teaching Check.
About Bedales School
Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.
Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”
Headteacher
Will Goldsmith
Values and vision
The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness
ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”
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