Teacher of Geography
Graham School
North Yorkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2019 (or earlier if possible)
- Apply by:
- 30 November 2018
Job overview
Graham School is an 11-16 school situated in Scarborough, which has over 1000 students. Scarborough is easily accessible and whilst many of our current staff are local, many also travel from York, Hull, Driffield and the surrounding areas. Over the last year, the school has worked proactively with the Local Authority and the Hope Learning Trust York to continue to drive improvement. The school has also just had a positive monitoring visit from Ofsted.
Academic resilience, high expectations and a culture of teaching and learning are now very much part of Graham School and the recruitment and retention of our staff is critical to delivering an outstanding school to our coastal communities and families.
In 2019 we will officially join the Hope Learning Trust family of schools along with George Pindar School. We continue to work collaboratively together sharing best practice, developing our staff, developing advancements on teaching and learning and ensuring strong outcomes for our students.
‘Staff are positive about improvements in the school and the leadership’ Ofsted 2017
Overview and career development recruitment incentives:
- An opportunity to join a solid Humanities team which has seen positive uplifts in 2018.
- Opportunity to work with our languages department on the successful ‘Erasmus’ project and lead on field trips within the department.
- Access to tailored CPD through Hope Learning Trust and their team of specialists. This includes courses such as NQT Leadership and Moving to Mastery teaching.
- Opportunities to access in your early stages NPQML, NPQSL, Ambition School Leadership and SLE involvement.
- Experienced colleagues and those in early career stages are welcome to apply, what is important is the ability to enthuse children with your passion for History and humanities. If you can offer another Humanities subject this would be a distinct advantage.
- Educate the team in outstanding teaching practices and have a real passion for this subject.
We advise you to come in and speak with the Headteacher to discuss the above and shape the next stage of your career.
Application process
The date of commencement for this post will be Easter 2019 (or earlier if possible) and the closing date for all applications is Friday 30 November 2018.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date.
Further information
For an informal conversation about the role and the journey we are on as a school, to arrange a visit or for an application pack please contact James Annetts (Coastal Schools Recruitment Lead) at:
E: james.annetts@northyorks.gov.uk
T: 01609 534939 / 07966261249
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Prevent Duty.
About Graham School
I am delighted you are interested in joining the team at Graham School. We have a highly ambitious, aspirational group of professionals who are raising standards and significantly improving the life chances of the young people of Scarborough and the Yorkshire Coast. I am delighted to be the Headteacher here and although there have been recent challenges, you could not find a more supportive, inclusive school to work in.
My staff team believe that learning conquers all and we are very much moving towards becoming the outstanding school that our young people and community deserve. Our school is a very special learning community filled with talented and creative staff, all of whom share my vision for excellence in teaching and learning and building character for our students.
It has been a year since Ofsted visited and in that time we have seen a positive transformation of almost every aspect of our work and last month we had a positive and very encouraging monitoring visit from Ofsted. We are now on one site, we’ve adopted a uniform that our students are proud to wear and improved our outcomes and attitudes for learning – no mean feat, but we are by no means complacent.
In 2019 we will join the Hope Learning Trust along with our coastal secondary partner, George Pindar School. Being part of a growing, successful multi-academy trust of both secondary and primary schools where we can share resources, develop our staff and support each other will bring huge improvements to our school improvement journey. Internally we have developed a strong CPD offer led by our Deputy Head for Teaching and Learning and we are able to take advantage of the SLE and NLE specialists that are part of Hope.
It is a privilege to lead Graham School. The school has a shared sense of purpose and a vision for success which inspires me on a daily basis. If you are appointed, you will join a truly aspirational body of professionals who really care about our young people. I encourage you to come and visit and learn more about us and thank you for taking the time to apply to join Graham School.
With kindest regards Emma Robins | Headteacher
Welcome to Graham School
Our motto ‘omnia vincit doctrina’ which means ‘learning conquers all’ underlies everything we do here at Graham School. We have high aspirations for our students and our coastal community. Being part of a coastal community which is starting to see the benefits of accessing funding through the North Yorkshire Opportunity Area is exciting and rewarding. Our students thrive on teaching that excites them and are enthused by teachers who believe that learning conquers all.
Graham School is part of the North Yorkshire Opportunity Area that is prioritising improvements to early years education and numeracy and literacy outcomes, alongside a drive to recruit and retain high-quality, motivated teachers to the area. Teachers on the North Yorkshire Coast will have unique opportunities to engage in additional professional and leadership development through this programme, as well as access to fully-funded national professional qualifications.
Why join our team?
The students at Graham School are a wonderful group of young people. They are lively, outgoing and have much to say for themselves, a characteristic we encourage! We believe they deserve an education that is outstanding, full of ambition, aspiration and character. That is what you commit to providing. If you come to work at Graham School, you will commit to providing our young people with a first-class education. The Scarborough community Scarborough is a learning community where great things are happening!
Graham School serves the town’s community and our staff travel to our stunning coastal setting from the East Riding, York and Hull, as well as from the local area. We are dedicated to being an outstanding employer. Our robust recruitment and selection process is designed to ensure that excellent professionals are appointed so that they drive attainment and raise standards in our progression to becoming a good and ultimately outstanding school.
Graham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Our investment in staff The health and wellbeing of our employees is of high importance to us. We recognise our workforce perform at a high pace to ensure our children exceed expectations and achieve outstanding results.
We are passionate about nurturing and supporting our team throughout their career through providing tailored CPD programmes and in-house health and wellbeing provisions.
Ofsted
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