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Teacher of Mathematics

Teacher of Mathematics

Brigshaw High School

Leeds

Salary:
MPS/UPS
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2019
Apply by:
1 April 2019

Job overview

We are looking for a colleague who can fulfil the following roles and responsibilities:

Teaching and Learning

● Teach Maths at KS3, KS4 and KS5.

● Plan, teach and assess highly effective lessons to ensure all students make good progress.

● Use a range of engaging styles and resources to best meet the needs of students.

● Mark students’ work regularly and provide constructive feedback to students to help them improve.

● Monitor and be responsible for each students’ progress in your class.

Staff and Resources

● Implement school and departmental policies

● Willingness to contribute to the extra-curricular life of the department

● Become involved in aspects of departmental planning and development

Pupils

● To be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

● Maintain high levels of behaviour in the classroom and around the school

● Be a Form Tutor and contribute to the Personal Health and Social Education teaching programme

● Assess, record and report pupils’ progress effectively.

● Engender a commitment to success in each of the pupils.

● Maintain high levels of discipline in your classroom and around the school

PERSON SPECIFICATION

We are looking for a colleague who has the following experience, skills and qualities:

● A knowledge of Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures

● A good Honours Degree or equivalent in Maths or a related discipline

● A sound understanding of recent curriculum developments in Maths

● Excellent practical and classroom management skills

● Enthusiasm, energy and commitment

● Support Brigshaw’s Core Values and our Co-operative Values.

● Good inter-personal skills and the ability to work well as part of a team

● Good organisational and administrative skills

● Willingness to be a ‘creative risk-taker’

● Generosity of spirit

Mathematics at Brigshaw

The Maths team at Brigshaw are committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for all of our pupils. We are a large team with a range of expertise, experience and interests which we look forward to sharing with the successful candidate. We are highly supportive both of each other and of the pupils we teach, and we work hard to ensure that pupils enjoy learning Maths and see it as a valuable and relevant subject. We have seen our GCSE results rise steadily over the last 3 years and we hope that with a continued focus on teaching and learning and by developing pupils ability to work more independently we can further improve attainment.

Curriculum

The team works to common schemes of work in Years 7 – 11, which teachers can adapt to suit the needs of their group and individual pupils within it. We work collaboratively to produce these, and always welcome new ideas and approaches.

We offer a range of extra curricular activities to pupils.

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check

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About Brigshaw High School

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+44 113 287 8900

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Brigshaw High School is a very successful and inclusive 11-19 comprehensive school of over 1320 students serving communities across outer east of Leeds. The school has outstanding teaching accommodation, sporting facilities and strong learning and community partnerships.

On 1st September 2016 Brigshaw converted to an Academy status as part of the Brigshaw Learning Partnership, a multi-academy trust consisting of ourselves and five other primary schools.

Headteacher

Mr Duncan Roberts

Snapshot

Brigshaw is a thriving, popular school, occupying a large, attractive campus between Kippax and Allerton Bywater. Pupils come to us from these two “villages”, as well as from Great and Little Preston, Swillington, Micklefield, Methley, Woodlesford, Garforth and the outer Leeds suburbs. About 25% attract Pupil Premium funding. There are currently 1320 pupils on roll, including 160 in the Sixth Form. Our planned admission limit is 240 per year and we are once again fully subscribed in Year 7 for 2019. On September 1st 2016 we converted to Academy status alongside five of our partner primary schools as part of The Brigshaw Learning Partnership. Having worked together for several years as a very successful Trust, this conversion has been a natural progression. Our new status is helping attract additional school improvement resources and we are actively seeking further challenge and scrutiny for ourselves to help us raise achievement.

Ofsted

Our most recent Ofsted Report (June 2019) judged us as a good school.  Ofsted noted:

“There’s something really special here” HMI Ofsted

● Highly effective leadership… all highly ambitious for staff and pupils

● Resolutely committed and determined to embed a ‘culture of excellence’ across the school.

● Pupils are “proud… of their school and … appreciate the recent changes”.

● Pupils’ attitudes to learning are strong… they actively participate in and support their peers with their learning.

● Governors and trustees know the school well… they are realistic and reflective…they are extremely effective in their roles.

● Parents and carers are supportive.

● Sixth-form leadership is a strength of the school and, consequently, the sixth form is good.

However, we are not complacent. We believe that pupils can make faster progress. There is still more we can do to further raise attainment. Current priorities in our School Improvement Plan are centred on raising achievement at all levels and ensuring all students are stretched; developing improved outcomes through our Vertical Tutoring and House System; and developing and consolidating partnerships. Under-pinning these objectives is an over-arching commitment to personalising learning and encouraging student leadership and parent/carer engagement at all levels of our work.

View Brigshaw High School’s latest Ofsted report

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