Teacher of Science
Longdendale High School
Hyde, Cheshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 25 March 2018
Job overview
Teacher of Science
Required for September 2018
Teacher of Science– MPS, Full Time, Permanent Contract
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to join a successful and forward thinking convertor academy. Required from September 2018, we wish to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated Teacher of Science with the ability to teach at both Key Stages 3 and 4.
Longdendale High School is a successful and popular comprehensive 11-16 academy set at the edge of the Peak District on the border of Tameside and Derbyshire. We have a current intake of 800 students with cohorts typically above the national average in terms of prior attainment. Our Ofsted inspection in November 2015 recognised the excellent provision and opportunities our students are offered in all areas of the curriculum, and the school was judged to be ‘Good with Outstanding features’. This is clearly a fantastic achievement we are currently building on and the successful candidate will play a key role in our continuing journey to outstanding as we work relentlessly to ensure all students are supported to achieve their full potential and flourish in all aspects of school life. Longdendale is a highly innovative and successful school, with a strong vision for ongoing improvement.
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to our Science team to support the development of the curriculum and teaching experience in lessons to ensure that all students achieve at least their target grade on the Aspire Pathway. As Teacher of Science, the successful candidate will work to provide outstanding learning opportunities and instil a love of learning. The successful applicant will join a thriving, high performing, well-resourced department and a staff of highly committed professionals who are passionate about raising standards and learning outcomes for all students.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your own career in a challenging, innovative and highly supportive secondary environment. We will invest in you and provide you with the best resourcing and a personal programme of professional development and improvement.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to satisfactory enhanced status checks from the Disclosure and Barring Service. The school promotes equal opportunities.
For further information, or if you would like to visit our school prior to applying, please contact Louise Hoyle on 01457 764006 or alternatively: l.hoyle@lhs.aspireplus.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Midday on Monday 26th March 2018
Attached documents
About Longdendale High School
- Longdendale High School
- Spring Street, Hollingworth, Hyde
- Cheshire
- SK14 8LW
- United Kingdom
We are a small, friendly 11 - 16, co-educational, fully comprehensive community school, serving the local community surrounding Hollingworth in Tameside. Our ambition is to be a world-class school and we have a growing reputation for excellence. Staff and students have firmly subscribed to our ASPRIE core values in which we strive for Achievement, Success, Professionalism, Integrity, Respect and Endeavour in all that we do.
We are oversubscribed in Year 7 with all of our year groups rapidly expanding and we expect this growth to continue. Most of our students go on to study at Ashton Sixth Form College with others attending Tameside, Clarendon Sixth Form College, Stockport or Manchester College.
We were last inspected in November 2015 and we were delighted with the ‘good’ judgment which was well deserved recognition for the progress we have made as a school. The outstanding grade, awarded for leadership and management, also demonstrated the talent amongst our staff to further accelerate the school in all areas.
This is a very exciting time in our development as we take on a system leadership role in becoming a founder member of the AspirePlus Educational Trust. We are looking to ensure that the vision of improvement for Longdendale is accelerated through the appointment of forward-thinking and enthusiastic staff who will be able to work in partnership with others and be committed to working hard to achieve success.
As a founder member of the AspirePlus Educational Trust, Longdendale’s leaders have a strong vision for ongoing improvement and a track record of success. We will invest in you and provide you with the best resourcing and a personal programme of professional development and improvement. All these opportunities will allow you to develop your own career in a challenging, innovative and highly supportive secondary environment.
Headteacher
Andrea Jones
Executive Headteacher
Matthew Bowler
Values and Vision
Longdendale uses the mission statement “we endeavour to achieve and aspire to be successful”. It is a school that is currently enjoying some of the highest results of its history. Due to its smaller size, it is able to value each of its students as an individual, a task that is important for ensuring their skills and talents are emphasised and utilised in a way that can benefit them as well as the school itself.
Ofsted
“Since the previous inspection there have been marked improvements in teaching, behaviour and the overall quality of education that pupils receive. This is because leadership, including governance, is outstanding. The headteacher has been successful in uniting most members of the school community behind him and there is a shared aspiration for continued improvement. Swift action taken by school leaders since the previous inspection has resulted in the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that of others in the school narrowing quickly.”
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