Teacher of Geography
Upper Batley High School
Kirklees
- £25,714 - £41,604 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- ECT/MPS/UPR
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2022
Job overview
Temporary for 1 year
Batley Multi Academy Trust’s sole purpose is to provide a great education for Primary and Secondary learners throughout a local family of schools. The Trust is passionately committed to the communities of Batley, Birstall, Dewsbury and our surrounding areas, serving our local learners and their families in order to secure excellent educational outcomes, partnered with high aspirations. Batley Multi Academy Trust currently comprises Batley Girls’ High School, Upper Batley High School, Batley Grammar School, Healey Junior, Infant and Nursery School and Field Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School. We provide high quality education for all young people. This collaboration enables us to share expertise, knowledge and best practice to ensure academic and pastoral excellence throughout all of our schools, with all schools embracing the same overall ethos and values, whilst maintaining their own unique characters.
Upper Batley High School is a dynamic, innovative and forward thinking learning community. We are driven by our values of “Believe - Achieve - Succeed” and respect lies at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a proactive individual to join our team on our journey to outstanding. Our GCSE results increased again in 2021, demonstrating great progress with a record number of learners achieving the highest possible grade 9. Ofsted visited us in 2019 and said our school “provides all pupils with a high quality education”.
Upper Batley High School was identified as a Beacon School in the Northern Challenge report due to the excellent progress our disadvantaged learners make. We also hold the Gold Award for Mental Health & Wellbeing, the PSHCE Charter Mark, the Careers Quality Standard and we are a lead school within the Kirklees Careers Hub. We are one of only a few schools in the UK to achieve 100% in all Gatsby benchmarks. Ofsted identified our careers programme as a “real strength of the school” and we are in the top 14% of all schools nationally.
Our 11-16 school is multi-cultural and located close to the town centre, within easy access of the motorway network. Our work is focused on developing the unique potential of every individual whilst working towards becoming an outstanding educational organisation. We are a vibrant, rich and exciting learning community with unique and inspiring opportunities inside and outside the classroom.
We are seeking to appoint an innovative Teacher of Geography to join our successful and hardworking Humanities team. The successful applicant will be learner centred and a collaborative practitioner. The post offers excellent opportunities for a committed teacher with good knowledge of the GCSE syllabus to teach Geography to KS3 and KS4. Experience or ability to teach RE would be beneficial.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 25th May 2022
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About Upper Batley High School
- Upper Batley High School
- Blenheim Drive, Batley Field Hill, Batley
- West Yorkshire
- WF17 0BJ
- United Kingdom
Upper Batley High School is a dynamic and innovative learning community. We are proud that our focus is on educating ‘Tomorrow’s Successful Men’ and we are specialists in the education of boys. We inspire every member of our learning community to be the very best version of themselves each and every day and we strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for forward thinking individuals to join our team on our journey to outstanding.
Upper Batley High School is a school dedicated to delivering academic success, coupled with first class care, guidance and support. Our bespoke, engaging and enriching curriculum ensures our young people achieve at a high level, and our outstanding Career Pathways education inspires our learners to reach their potential and achieve their career goals. We are ambitious for what our learners can achieve, and our curriculum enrichment provides a wide range of experiences outside of the classroom. From the Barnyard to Forest School, from cricket to croquet, from the music recording studio to rocket club there is something for everyone, and plenty of new activities to try. Our school lies at the heart of our community and we firmly believe community makes us.
Our GCSE results are improving rapidly and we were graded as a ‘Good’ school in all areas by Ofsted in 2019, with outstanding provision for careers. Ofsted said our learners are making rapid progress and ‘the school is a harmonious community in which to learn’. We were identified as a Beacon School due to the excellent progress we make with our learners (Northern Powerhouse Report 2016) and we have achieved several awards such as Eco Schools, Gold Award for Mental Health & Wellbeing and our community work is currently featured in an exhibition in the People's History Museum, Manchester.
Our 11-16 school is multi-cultural and located close to the town centre, within easy access of the motorway network. Our work is focused on developing the unique potential of every individual whilst working towards becoming an outstanding educational organisation. We are a vibrant, rich and exciting learning community with unique and inspiring opportunities inside and outside the classroom.
We are part of the Batley Multi Academy Trust, whose sole purpose is to provide an outstanding education through our family of schools. Batley Multi Academy Trust currently comprises Batley Girls’ High School, Upper Batley High School, Healey Junior Infant & Nursery School, Field Lane Junior Infant & Nursery School and Batley Grammar School.
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