Teacher of Geography
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Blackburn with Darwen
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2017
- Apply by:
- 25 October 2016
Job overview
Are you an innovative and creative teacher of Geography?
Can you consistently deliver good and outstanding lessons?
Are you committed to ensuring students enjoy learning geography and achieve the highest
standards?
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is an original sponsored Academy which opened in September 2008. We are an 11-18 school specialising in Entrepreneurship and Sport, located in the town of Darwen, situated in Pennine Lancashire. Since the Academy opened exams results have significantly improved. In 2013 the Academy was recognised by the SSAT as the 7th most improved school in the country in terms of GCSE results, and OFSTED (2013 framework) have graded the academy as a ‘Good’ school in every respect. During this time the Humanities Faculty has grown significantly to include the teaching of Geography, History, RS, Sociology, Criminology, Psychology, Law and Health and Social Care, with the numbers of students studying geography at Key Stage 4 increasing due to the English Baccalaureate.
Due to the promotion of the previous post holder, we are seeking to appoint an inspirational teacher who can bring their love of geography into the classroom and beyond, and who will join us in our objective; to become Outstanding.
The successful candidate will have the flexibility to offer teaching across the age, ability and subject range. Teaching will include Key Stage 3 Geography, and the teaching of GCSE and A Level Geography is available for a suitably qualified / experienced candidate. The ability to motivate students through a sound understanding and genuine enthusiasm and passion for Geography is essential. Applications are invited from both experienced and newly qualified teachers. Enthusiasm, potential and a desire to help young people achieve their goals are more important than experience or area of geographical expertise. Informal visits to the academy by prospective candidates are welcomed.
Our staff enjoy high levels of support, there is at least 20% PPA/non-contact time for all teachers, and rarely cover has meant never cover (for most staff since we opened). We run comprehensive induction programmes and there are thorough professional development opportunities for all. For further details and an application pack or to arrange an informal visit, please contact the Principal’s PA Val Townsend val.townsend@daca.uk.com at the Academy. Closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 26th October 2016, with interviews taking place later the same week.
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. References will be taken up for all shortlisted applicants and successful candidates will be subject to satisfactory enhanced CRB disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
“This is a good school.” Ofsted, January 2013
Attached documents
About Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy (DACA) opened in the predecessor school buildings in September 2008, moving to its new town centre location in September 2010. The state of the art building features an entrepreneurship bridge, Darwen Creates. The Academy Sixth Form brought a new education offer for post 16 students with the outstanding new facilities at the Academy designed to be accessible to the wider Darwen community.
In 2011, its third year after opening, DACA was a finalist in the Academy of the Year category at the Education Investor Awards. On 11th April 2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton officially opened the Academy buildings in one of the last official engagements they carried out before their wedding later that month. Prince William praised the “wonderful, innovative, ground-breaking” academy and stated “I am convinced the academy will transform the lives of families in Darwen and, through its example, countless others elsewhere.”
In 2013 the Academy saw record A level Results with a pass rate of 100%, and celebrated another first for the Academy when Khushna Sulaman-Butt secured her place at Ruskin College, Oxford to read Fine Art – the first DACA student ever to progress to Oxford University.
2013 also saw DACA achieve a Good rating in all aspects of an OFSTED Inspection.
By 2016 the percentage of students achieving 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C grade (including maths and English Language or Literature) had risen to 65% while the A Level pass rate and vocational equivalent pass rate at the Academy were both 100%, and at A Level only 46% achieved the highest A*-B grades. A record number of 68 of our students applied for and got their first choice of University.
There is regular emphasis and assessment of the specialisms of entrepreneurship and sport at the Academy. DACA has developed the characteristics of entrepreneurship which are embedded across all aspects of Academy life to raise the potential of students.
In 2015 the local business community recognised the impact of the Academy’s commitment to developing entrepreneurship with the Enterprise in Education Award at the Hive Business Awards 2015. Weeks later the Academy was named Secondary School of the Year by the Lancashire Telegraph and in October the Academy was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.
In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”. The award recognised Darwen Academy’s long-term commitment to improving education and enhancing understanding of different cultures through its programme of overseas visits and project work in disadvantaged communities.
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