Teacher of Physics
Forest School
E17
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 25 February 2018
Job overview
We seek to appoint an outstanding, dedicated and committed Physics Teacher to ensure continued excellence within this highly successful, well-resourced department. The successful candidate should be able to teach the Department’s curriculum at any of the three Key Stages offered by the School.
A balanced science programme, incorporating most of the features of the National Curriculum, is taught to pupils in Year 7 to 9 and satisfies the programme of study for Key Stage 3.
In Year 7 and 8, each class has one science teacher. In Year 9 pupils are taught by three specialist teachers and follows a programme of study in preparation for their Science GCSEs.
In Year 10, they choose either Double Award Science or any two or all three, of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, following the Edexcel IGCSE course.
All three sciences are popular subjects at A Level. A Level results in Physics have been pleasing for a considerable time, with an average of 80% obtaining A* to B grades in the last two years. The Edexcel specification is followed in Physics.
The Physics Department at Forest School occupies a central place in the academic life of the School. The subject and its teachers are very popular with pupils and academic results are some of the School’s strongest.
The person appointed will join an exciting and very successful Department, and will make a full range of contributions to the life of the School. There is a firm focus upon providing high quality teaching and learning within the department, and the successful candidate will have the ability to share with pupils his or her own curiosity about how the world around us works and their enthusiasm for Physics.
If you relish the opportunity of making a real impact within a highly successful and ambitious school, then we look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: Sunday 25 February 2018
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointment to this position requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Forest School
Forest is an outstanding all-round School, well known for its friendly, welcoming ethos, and full of 1450 bright sparky pupils aged 4-18. We are lucky to be located in this part of North East London, allowing us to attract pupils from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds who share in being academically ambitious, but are grounded, engaging and very loyal to the School. Described by the Good Schools Guide as a ‘powerhouse with a heart’ and enjoying a reputation for strong expert teaching and learning, Forest pupils are encouraged to find success on all fronts through the breadth of the opportunities on offer to them.
We aim to develop the whole pupil through our distinct educational provision which gives equal weight to academic, co-curricular and pastoral strands of school life. To this end, Forest promotes all-round educational excellence, recognising that advancement to higher education or the world of work requires top academic grades but keen to develop a sense of service in the pupils and an awareness of their responsibilities to other people, as well as themselves. Forest is recognised as a school that is always evolving, self-evaluating and planning strategically for its future, while valuing its heritage and its location, all of which makes our community a stimulating one to work in for our 150+ teachers and 100+ non-teaching staff.
For full details about working at Forest School please visit our website www.forest.org.uk
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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