Teacher of Technology
Blaise High School
Bristol, City of
- £31,650 - £49,084 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2025
- Apply by:
- 5 March 2025
Job overview
We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic Teacher of Technology to join our popular and successful department that delivers an engaging and exciting KS3 and KS4 curriculum. The Technology team embodies our values and ethos, they ensure that teaching and learning practices are research led, they provide engaging content through explicit instruction.
Our vision is to enable students to see a design project through from start to finish.
The key stage three curriculum is designed to ensure students can generate and communicate their design ideas and to develop technical skills to measure out and produce a prototype product. Throughout the curriculum, there is an underlying principle of sustainability to ensure students are aware of the environmental impact of the products that we use and how to make informed choices.
The Big Ideas
- Materials we use, why we use them and how they impact the planet
- Communicating designs and ideas
- Selecting and expertly using the best tools and equipment
The successful candidate will join a team who are passionate about engaging and inspiring young people in their learning, and supportive in their endeavours to better the department. We are looking to recruit a colleague with both the commitment and relevant skills to drive our raising standards agenda across the whole ability range.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
Main responsibilities:
- To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area (Design & Technology) as appropriate
- To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher.
- To deliver our reading programme during Tutor Time Reading in the mornings
- To deliver high quality, academically rigorous lessons, in line with the principles of cognitive science.
- To contribute to raising standards of student attainment across the school
- To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth
- To engage in the intellectual preparation of shared resources.
You will need:
- Qualified teacher status
- Relevant Degree
- Evidence of / Commitment to continuing professional development
- A high-quality teacher
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
Closing date for receipt of applications is Wednesday 7th March 2025. We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.
If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know. Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About Blaise High School
- Blaise High School
- Station Road
- Bristol
- BS10 7QH
- United Kingdom
Blaise High School
Blaise High School is on a journey of rapid improvement to becoming one of the very best schools in the entire country for progress made. The staff at the school share a common purpose; that is the eradication of educational disadvantage in North Bristol. The staff at the school are committed to the school’s values of Aspiration, Integrity and Pride. The school’s leadership are not only committed to developing a school grounded in academic success, and the development of character, but also want to build a school in which workload for teachers is sensible, manageable and well thought out. In our most recent staff survey 96% of staff said that they were proud to work at the school and planned to be here in two years time. Blaise High School serves a diverse, and vibrant community, with high levels of deprivation. It has a Resource Base within the school and this is something we are very proud of. At Blaise High School we teach in a completely disruption free environment. We believe in evidence led approaches to teaching, and we teach in a traditional manner built around explicit and direct instruction. We firmly believe that teachers are the experts in the room, and teach from a high quality, knowledge - rich curriculum. For us, knowledge - rich does not mean knowledge heavy. We carefully select what we teach our children as we know that this is the most important decision we can make in a school. All of the knowledge that we teach children enables them to climb their own personal mountains to the very best universities in the country, or careers of their choosing.
How do we reduce workload for teachers?
- High quality centralised curriculum resources.
- Live marking in lessons rather than work taken home
- Centralised behaviour systems
- Visible and supportive SLT
- No after school meetings
- Carefully planned deadlines
- Free lunch for every duty.
These are only some of the things that we have introduced to allow teachers to focus on the main thing, teaching great lessons to our children.
Greenshaw Learning Trust – About us
The Greenshaw Learning Trust (GLT) provides an effective structure for schools to achieve real benefits from school to-school collaboration, and a culture of trust and openness that promotes honest and transparent dialogue and mutual support.
At the heart of the Trust is proven school improvement advice and guidance – with regular meetings with school leaders, input from specialist primary and secondary experts and staff training and development in all our schools.
All schools in the Trust receive expert advice and fast -response support on budget planning and monitoring, payroll, human resources, employment and legal advice, purchasing, capital projects, admissions, policy development and audit. Our catering team provides advice and guidance on meeting the statutory responsibilities for food standards, healthy eating and safety, and helps our schools achieve higher take-up of meals and significant cost savings through quality improvement and the central procurement of food supplies.
Each school’s local governing body receives support and advice to ensure that they can contribute effectively to the governance and leadership of their school, including tailored guidance to chairs and clerks and governor training.
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to meeting the needs of every student – our schools offer a wide range of special needs provision and across the Trust we have extensive expertise in behaviour, attendance, family liaison and therapies to support our students and their teachers.
Greenshaw Learning Trust Mission Statement
We are ambitious for our schools and their students. We believe that there is no ceiling on what can be achieved by anyone, regardless of their circumstances or background.
We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive learning environment, giving every young person the opportunity to fulfil their potential now, and in the future.
We seek to realise the power of individuals and organisations working together in collaboration whilst retaining their individuality, and we recognise that we can always improve.
Greenshaw Learning Trust Employee Benefits
The Greenshaw Learning Trust recognises that our employees are our most important asset and we are aware that the quality and commitment of our employees is critical to our success. We offer all our employees the following staff benefits:
Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression.
Employer contributions to Teachers Pension Scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
Gym membership scheme.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Eye Care Voucher Scheme.
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