Teacher of History
Colfe's School
Greenwich
- Expired
- Salary:
- Colfe's own generous scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 2 February 2023
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, capable and inspiring teacher to join our History department in September 2023. The successful candidate should have a relevant degree and will be able to teach History to KS5.
The successful applicant will be:
· An enthusiastic and able graduate, with strong academic credentials and interests
· A warm and effective communicator, committed to ensuring that all pupils make excellent progress.
· Able to motivate and inspire pupils
· Organised, efficient and dedicated
History at Colfe’s School is a thriving subject area with a friendly and enthusiastic team. This major department of four staff enjoys excellent teaching facilities in four classrooms, all with interactive whiteboards. History is a very popular and successful subject at both GCSE and A-level, following the AQA and OCR specifications respectively, and one which seeks to extend its most able and interested pupils beyond the strictures of examination syllabuses. At GCSE we teach Germany 1890-1945, Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972, Power and the People and Elizabeth. At A-Level we teach Britain 1930-1997, French Revolution and Napoleon, and Russia and its rulers 1855-1964 (experience with this unit would be of particular interest). KS3 teaching broadly shadows the national curriculum from 1066 through to the Cold War, with case studies on the British Civil Rights movement, to a more diverse approach to teaching the World Wars. From Year 7 we embed GCSE skills to develop our pupils’ analytical, evaluative and thematic skills.
A busy programme of co-curricular and curricular enrichment activity includes London visits to the Leathersellers’ Hall, Guild Hall, Cabinet War Rooms and the Imperial War Museum. We also run film nights for sixth form, and offer overseas trips including visits to Berlin and France.
Teachers appointed to Colfe’s are expected to maintain the highest professional standards and to make a significant contribution to the extra-curricular life of the community. Those who join the School can expect to become part of a caring, purposeful and committed community.
Application procedure
The recruitment process will require all applicants to complete an application form, accompanied by a letter of application, current CV and details of two referees, who will be contacted prior to interview, in accordance with the School’s Safer Recruitment procedures. There will be an interview and lesson observation for short listed candidates.
The application should be submitted either by post, marked private and confidential, to:
Mrs A Ross
Human Resources
Colfe’s School
Horn Park Lane
London SE12 8AW
Or electronically to: recruitment@colfes.com
Applications should be sent as soon as possible and by Noon, Thursday 2 February at the latest. Colfe’s reserves the right to appoint to this post before the closing date if necessary.
Colfe’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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About Colfe's School
THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL
At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;
• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;
• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;
• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;
• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.
Colfe’s School
Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools. It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652. In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.
In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school. For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.
Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London. All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site. The facilities are excellent: the school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.
Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.
Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it. It is very much a school of the present day. The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy). The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other. Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’. They are lively and willing to have a go.
Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.
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