Teacher of Spanish - Maternity Cover

The Vacancy

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic and inspirational teacher to join the Languages team here at Queen Elizabeth’s High School on a temporary basis to cover maternity leave. The successful candidate will need to be able to teach Spanish from Year 7 beginners all the way up to A Level The ability to also offer beginners German would be advantageous.

The Modern Foreign Languages Faculty currently comprises a strong, experienced team of seven teaching staff, led by the Head of Faculty, Ms G Turnbull. Additionally, the Faculty employs two native speaker Foreign Language Assistants, one for each language from November to April each academic year.

As we are such a large, friendly, supportive and forward-looking Faculty there is always someone with whom you can discuss issues and develop new ideas. We are particularly interested in any candidates with experience of teaching the NCELP schemes of learning. The majority of our teaching occurs in a specialised set of rooms, all of which are equipped with interactive screens. The department is well resourced with text books, software and other equipment.  

The Languages Faculty and the Languages Curriculum

All students begin with learning Spanish in Year 7, where a generous amount of curriculum time is invested in giving them a solid grounding. In Year 8 students begin their learning of German. In Year 9, students can choose to specialise in one of our languages or continue with both in our dual linguist groups. All students take at least one language to GCSE - the Faculty enters students for the AQA GCSE currently. We specialise intentionally in a romance and a Germanic language, not only to give pupils a sample of both language types, but to facilitate setting at KS4.

Our talented and motivated QEHS linguists continue happily to A Level and Languages are a USP in our Sixth Form, where we have students join us from the surrounding area to continue their study of German and/or Spanish at AQA A level. Over many years now it has been rewarding to see the majority of our students go on to continue their language studies at top universities across the country. Students also choose to read other languages at university such as Arabic or Mandarin. We have also facilitated gap years for our QEHS students at our partner school in Germany where they take on the role of an English language assistant on a regular basis. We often have visits from former students passionate about the benefits language learning has brought them.  

Queen Elizabeth’s High School offers a friendly working environment and extensive benefits for staff. These include a local government pension scheme, tax efficient childcare vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and continuous CPD. In addition, children of our staff feature favourably in the admissions criteria (subject to length of service or skills criteria).