Teacher of Geography
Ibstock Place School
Wandsworth
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2024
- Apply by:
- 24 May 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a full time Teacher of Geography who is able to teach across the Senior School age range (11-18 years) and who can prepare pupils for GCSE and A Level examinations in the subject.
The position is suitable for either a teacher who is in the early stages of their career (including recent graduates) or one with more experience who is seeking to develop in a new and stimulating environment.
The post is initially for a fixed term one year contract, but there is the potential for it subsequently to become permanent for the right candidate Geography is a very popular subject at this school. Our Geography Department sits within the Faculty of Humanities. We follow a ‘home grown’ enquiry-based course in Year 7-9, incorporating core geographical ideas and skills within a contemporary framework.
We are one of the school’s most popular optional subjects at GCSE and follow the Edecxel IGCSE course. Take up into the Sixth Form is also buoyant and here we follow the AQA specification. Each year, around 60% of pupils progress into higher education to read for Geography or related degrees.
Examination outcomes at both IGCSE and A Level are consistently strong and we also have recent Oxbridge successes. A team of seven delivers the Geography curriculum across the 11-18 age range. Each ‘A’ level group is shared between two teachers and there is the flexibility to teach both human and physical units within this framework.
The Department supplements its classroom provision with a growing programme of fieldwork; we are wonderfully sited to take advantage of London’s varied potential and we also visit Guildford and the Dorset coast.
Additionally, we offer optional overseas trips at GCSE and VI form; current destinations are Italy and Iceland respectively.
This post will commence 31 August 2024.
Further information on the role is set out in the Job Description.
Attached documents
About Ibstock Place School
Ibstock Place School is an independent co-educational day school for pupils aged 4 to 18. The school occupies a ten-acre site on the edge of Richmond Park in South West London.
An urban location with a beautiful botanical feel, Ibstock is the perfect home for scholarly exploration and adventure. Championing co-education since our founding in 1896, we have created a diverse environment that reflects real-world communities and workplaces.
Our school is over subscribed, with assessed entry at the age of four for Kindergarten (Reception). There is a competitive entry examination at the age of eleven and most pupils in the Prep School proceed on into the Senior School.
Headmaster
Christopher Wolsey
Aims and Ethos
Our aim is to create an outstanding place of learning, a place where our pupils find academic excellence and the joy which it inspires. We ensure that our pupils’ natural curiosity and empathy is ceaselessly nourished. In so doing, we set the conditions which enable them to excel, both during their time with us and throughout their adult lives.
We do this by concentrating on four Cs:
•Our curriculum is dynamic and forward-thinking.
•Our culture is warm and inclusive.
•Our context is beautiful and stimulating.
•Our commitment to co-education.
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