Teacher of Geography
The Stockwood Park Academy
Luton
- £28,000 - £43,685 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS £28,000 - £43,685 (dependent on experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2023
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2022
Job overview
Teacher of Geography
The Stockwood Park Academy are currently looking to recruit a passionate Teacher of Geography to join our successful team for a six-month fixed term contract. You will be required to teach across KS3 and KS4 to the whole range of student abilities. We welcome applications from NQTs beginning their career and more experienced colleagues looking to develop further. At The Stockwood Park Academy, we offer a school that will genuinely invest, support and develop you to become an outstanding practitioner and enable you to keep climbing the career ladder. If you are ambitious about excelling in your career and taking on additional responsibilities, we will give you the opportunities that you crave.
It is incredibly important to us here at The Stockwood Park Academy that all our staff are valued, listened to, mentored, challenged and given adequate opportunities to develop. As a Teaching Trust, we offer exceptional teacher training and high-quality professional development programmes catered to your needs. Consequently, we have many success stories of staff that have joined us and been given excellent CPD and training that has allowed them to climb the career ladder.
Key Duties
· To manage pupil learning through effective teaching in accordance with the Department’s schemes of work and policies
· To use a variety of methods and approaches (including differentiation) to match curricular objectives and the range of pupil needs and ensure equal opportunity for all pupils.
· To set high expectations for all pupils, to deepen their knowledge and understanding and to maximise their achievement.
· To use positive management of behaviour in an environment of mutual respect which allows pupils to feel safe and secure and promotes their self-esteem.
· To assess pupils’ work systematically and use the results to inform future planning, teaching and curricular development.
The successful candidate will have
· Enthusiastic team-orienteered teacher that can support in the continued development of a knowledge-rich curriculum. The candidate will be able to support the Head of Geography in achieving this aim.
· Key Stage 4 and 5 experience would be advantageous
· Knowledge of AQA specification for Geography would be advantageous
· Recent experience of the redevelopment of schemes of learning and curriculum would be advantageous
· Experience with Field Work and/or trips would be
· Leadership skills – being able to take responsibility for development of SOL and lessons
· Someone with a passion for Geography and bringing new ideas to improve the learning with the subject
· Good behaviour management and building of relationships with students
· Good degree and PGCE/QTS
· Resilience in working with challenging behaviours
Job Specifics
Start date January 2023
Salary MPS/UPS £28,000 - £43,685 (dependent on experience)
Job Role Full time, Fixed Term, Six month.
Safeguarding
‘We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as: “Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Attached documents
About The Stockwood Park Academy
Welcome to The Stockwood Park Academy, part of The Shared Learning Trust.
Join us:
This is an exciting time to join The Stockwood Park Academy Teaching Team led by Principal, Mumin Humayun. Your colleagues are friendly, highly experienced subject experts and enjoy the teacher comradery. You will make friends and mentors for life. Join us and share the love of your subject, because you enjoy working with young people, you want to make a real difference and inspire the next generation. We strive for creativity in the classroom and above all making the whole journey fun!
· Location; right next to Junction 10 of the M1, close to Stockwood Park Golf Course, Luton Rugby Club and the Luton Hoo.
· Bus service
· Ample staff parking
· £30 million state of the art schooling facility
Staff benefits:
· Pension
· Work laptop
· Car wash service
· Once a quarter, Indian head or shoulder massage
· Amazon/Delivery drop-off service
· Dry Cleaning service
· Staff wellbeing and Counsellor
· Perkbox:
o Medical 24/7 Doctor appointments
o Private and repeat prescriptions
o Save money on everyday purchases
o Online exercise classes
o Employee Support Hub by Health Assured, giving you 24/7 access to qualified therapists
o Competitions to enter
Vision and Values:
'Strive, achieve, believe!' - We want our children to strive for their goals, achieve those goals and believe that with the right drive and motivation anything is possible. We provide opportunities for all our students and adults to be aspirational and develop a passion and excitement for learning. Working with our communities, we ensure all students are able to achieve beyond their targets to reach the success they deserve. Our students develop a strong self-belief so that they flourish and develop into well-rounded, self-respecting young people.
'We recruit people for attitude and train for skills' - We aim to recruit people who have the right attitude. If you have a love for teaching and are passionate about seeing children succeed, we can help you do the rest. We can offer custom-made support packages that focus on the quality of teaching and learning, curriculum development and all aspects of Leadership and Management. Whether you would like help with planning, preparing and delivering outstanding lessons, building your confidence within the classroom or developing your behaviour management strategies, we have all the CPD and training you need.
Our 5 academies are as follows:
The Vale Academy, Dunstable 2-11
The Rushmere Park Academy, Leighton Buzzard 2-9
The Linden Academy, Luton 4-11
The Chalk Hills Academy, Luton 11-18
The Stockwood Park Academy, Luton 11-18
We also offer a fantastic Sixth Form provision for students aged between 16-19, and this is based at both The Stockwood and The Chalk Hills Academy. Including in our Sixth Form provision is our Football Academy Pathway and brand-new Cricket Academy Pathway.
The Teaching Trust Teacher training based at The Chalk Hills Academy and is offered to all our colleagues should they be successful.
CPD and Training: Our Teaching Trust - WE INVEST IN YOU!
All of our Academies at The Shared Learning Trust are a part of our Teaching Trust. We aim to offer exception teacher training and high quality professional development programmes to new and experienced staff to support them in excelling in their career.
Our programmes are facilitated by experienced school leaders, who have exemplary records in leadership and improving outcomes for their students. We are able to cater for specific requests and can offer custom-made support packages that focus on the quality of teaching and learning, curriculum development and aspects of Leadership and Management.
We currently offer 'The National Award for Middle Leaders', 'The Outstanding Teacher Programme', 'The Improving Teacher Programme' and 'The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership'. As Stockwood Park Academy is part of a Multi-Academy Trust, there are fantastic opportunities to climb the career ladder. The Shared Learning Trust are a firm believer in helping all staff reach their full potential and developing their career within our Academies. If you are willing and wanting, we will do all we can to put you on the relevant courses and give you the right opportunities so you can keep achieving more in your career. If there isn't a current opportunity at The Stockwood Park Academy for promotion, there will be opportunities to move to one of our partner Academies.
The Sports Zone:
· 2 Football Pitches (floodlit, FA approved, full size and 3G Astro Turf)
· Large Outdoor Hard Court
· Four Tennis Courts
· Three Netball Courts
· Full Size Basketball Court
· Full Size Netball Court
· Four Badminton Court
· Large Indoor Football Pitch
The Performance Plaza:
· Theatre (tiered seating, professional lighting and sound system, curtains and backstage changing facilities)
· Dance and Fitness Studio (sprung floors, dances barres, floor to ceiling mirrors, full PA and music systems)
Classroom Facilities:
· Projectors
· Smart Boards
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