Teacher of Science
Boston Spa Academy
Wetherby, West Yorkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR / UPR (part time hours will be considered)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2019
- Apply by:
- 29 October 2018
Job overview
11-19 years, 900 students (210 in the sixth form)
Principal: Christopher Walsh
Executive Principal: Leanne Griffiths
Required for January 2019
Teacher of Science
MPR / UPR (part time hours will be considered)
We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified, enthusiastic, dynamic and inspirational Teacher of Science to join our academy.
As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa is a vibrant and successful academy, achieving excellent results and judged to be a Good School in the last two OFSTED inspections.
Located between York, Leeds and Harrogate, Boston Spa Academy is committed to the development of the whole student, the physical, aesthetic, emotional, moral and spiritual, as well as the intellectual.
The successful applicant will be an inspirational teacher who plans and delivers lessons which engage pupils of a range of ages and abilities and secures good progress. They should be a reflective practitioner ready to work in an enthusiastic team who regularly collaborate in their planning and sharing of good practice.
Our mission is simple – to create an environment which is free from cynicism and unwilling to put limits on what young people can achieve. If you share our vision, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Applications are welcome from experienced teachers seeking a new challenge and from colleagues hoping to secure their first post.
An Application Pack (including Job Description and Person Specification) is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to recruitment@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk or by telephone on 01937 846 636 If you would like to know more about Boston Spa Academy, please visit our website at www.bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
Please note if you submit an electronic application we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
Closing date: Monday 29 October 2018, 9am.
Interview date: Wednesday 31 October 2018
If you would like to know more about The Gorse Academies Trust, please visit; https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/the-gorse-academies-trust-1071685
TGAT Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders 2018
Boston Spa Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children and we expect our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure Barring Service Check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
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About Boston Spa Academy
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- Boston Spa Academy
- Clifford Moor Road, Boston Spa, Wetherby
- West Yorkshire
- LS23 6RW
- United Kingdom
About Boston Spa Academy
Boston Spa Academy in Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, is a mixed, secondary community secondary school for children aged 11-18. The school, which opened in 1973, has around 1,370 students of which 195 attend the growing sixth form. In September 2018, Boston Spa Academy officially joined the highly successful and nationally renowned GORSE Academies Trust (TGAT), however, we had already been working in close partnership with colleagues from the Trust for the 18 months prior to becoming part of the Trust. As a direct impact of working with colleagues at TGAT the academy has moved from being a school with average performance to one which is now well above the national average. Boston Spa Academy is now amongst the highest performing schools in Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber region and the country.
Values and vision
Shaping Character; Cultivating Ambition
At Boston Spa Academy, we truly value the holistic development of our students as part of our vision to be ‘shaping character; cultivating ambition’. We support students in developing the character traits required to be well-rounded individuals and for them to be prepared with the skills, habits and qualifications required for success in their future careers.Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the ‘core values’ to which we hold dear and permeate through all that we do at the academy:
· Purpose
· Positivity
· Principled
· Participation
· Professionalism
As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is in the vanguard of educational developments in Leeds, Yorkshire and on a national level. As a school community, we strive to deliver an exceptional standard of education.
Our Enrichment++ provision is designed to encourage young people to learn beyond the classroom and includes opportunities to take part in sport, art, languages, humanities, science, outdoor pursuits and a range of volunteering and charitable work at local, national and international levels. Our nationally renowned Rowing Programme provides student with the opportunity to compete at a national level against some of the elite young athletes in the UK.
Cultural visits and an expedition programme have seen pupils visit countries from European countries to as far afield as Trinidad and Singapore.
Mr Peter Hollywood
Principal
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