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Teacher of Science

Teacher of Science

Kingsbury High School

Brent

Salary:
Inner London MPS/UPS. For example, an NQT is paid upwards from £28,098 and a UPS3 teacher £46,829. We always appoint the best candidate from interview, regardless of the pay point that their experience means that they come to us on.
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
27 June 2017

Job overview

Teacher of Science

Required for September 2017

Salary: Inner London MPS/UPS + £5,000 recruitment payment

The recruitment payments will be made in two instalments paid £3,000 September 2017 and £2,000 in September 2018.

We always appoint the best candidate from interview, regardless of the pay point that their experience means that they come to us on.

At Kingsbury High School we do things differently.

The School

We have long given up on “grading” lessons; instead we focus on using coaching to improve teaching and developing a growth mindset with our students. 

We focus on doing what is right for our students – not what ticks the box for Ofsted. We are working hard to develop a culture of staff well-being; our in-service programme includes an annual well-being day and work life balance evenings. Opportunities for further professional development are offered in particular through our membership of the Harrow Collegiate Teaching Schools Alliance.

Prospective candidates are welcome to come and look around the school to see for yourself what makes Kingsbury High different. As a large 12 form entry 11-18 split site school we are situated in an inner London location, but with an out of London feel – surrounded by parkland with large playing fields and great local amenities. Our school is truly diverse in its makeup, whilst united as one family working to achieve the best for all our students.

The Faculty

The Science Faculty has an enthusiastic and committed team of 20 teachers, a Curriculum Associate and 5 laboratory technicians. We currently offer separate GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics to 120 students each year - 100% of these students achieve A*-C grades. Sixth Form Science is very popular with multiple groups for Chemistry, Physics and Biology. 

We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic Teacher of Science; we would be pleased to receive applications from Biology, Chemistry or Physics specialists. The post is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to teach and work within a team of highly motivated and inspiring staff. The vacancy is suitable for an NQT or someone looking to broaden their teaching experience, working in a school where Science is a popular subje­­ct valued by students and staff alike.

To apply: For an application pack please email khsvacancies@kingsburyhigh.org.uk

Closing Date:  9.00 am Wednesday 28 June 2017

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and the appointment will be subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical and an enhanced CRB check.

Kingsbury High is a converter Academy committed to national terms and conditions for teaching staff, local NJC terms for support staff and, as an Equal Opportunities employer, welcomes applications from all sections of the community. 

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About Kingsbury High School

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The origins of our current school go back to 1925 when the Kingsbury County School, with 71 pupils, was established in a building which had been the main office in Colindale of the former Aircraft Manufacturing Company. 

In 1932, by now with 420 pupils and 25 teachers, the school moved to its brand new premises in Princes Avenue, prior to being designated a grammar school under the Butler Education Act of 1944. With the grammar school came the secondary modern, or two in Kingsbury’s case, and the Tyler’s Croft Secondary Modern Schools, one for girls and one for boys, opened in 1952

Kingsbury High School, the amalgamation of the grammar school and the two secondary moderns, was formed in 1967 and that is the date that most accurately represents the founding of our school. 

In 1993 a majority of parents voted for the school to gain Grant Maintained status, which brought direct government funding and a degree of independence, for example, over admissions. The school rapidly gained a national reputation for computing, emphasized when The Queen personally chose the school for her launch of the royal website in 1997.

Kingsbury High was then designated a “beacon school”, charged with sharing its good practice with other schools. Specialist status in Mathematics and Computing followed in 2004 and the years 2010, 2014 and 2018 have seen highly successful Ofsted inspections confirming Kingsbury High as a "good" school. The school has consistently maintained a very good level of examination performance. 

The school converted to Academy status in December 2011, reluctantly, in the knowledge that this would bring greater funding for the benefit of its pupils. It remains committed to the comprehensive ethos and to national terms and conditions for teaching staff and has retained its straightforward name "Kingsbury High School." 

In 2011, the school began teaching largely to its mixed ability form groups in the first two years and reduced the sixteen subjects which pupils used to encounter every week. Pupils do not miss out but by grouping subjects together or placing them on rotations they study just eight in a given half term, enabling the formation of much stronger relationships between teacher and pupil, very much the key to progress. Alongside that the school introduced extended projects, oracy units to promote more confident speaking, Excel Days, the Kingsbury Guarantee and Year 8 graduation. It was all quite a change and year 8 pupils are now tremendously keen to graduate at the best possible level and to see if they can get their names on the new honours board in the Tylers Hall.

The sixth form developed, too, introducing “pathway 3”, now “Access to A levels” which gives a chance for students to try out A levels who would not otherwise have met the entry criteria, and a programme for the most able sixth formers which prepares them for application and entry to the elite Russell Group universities.

The school changed in other ways, seeking to repel somewhat the enthusiasm the educational system had developed for valuing only what can be measured. Schools had slavishly adopted the Ofsted approach to grading teachers through lesson observations and Kingsbury High became one of the first to move away from that and to free its teachers up from the uniform expectations of teaching style which had been much a feature of the period nationally.

Kingsbury High is proud to be a comprehensive school. We still regularly send pupils to Oxbridge and we are equally proud of our reputation as a centre of excellence for our work with special needs pupils. At whatever end of the academic spectrum and all points in between, our pupils continue to succeed in gaining the skills they need for education and for life. 

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