Trainee Teacher - Geography
The Regis School
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 28 June 2024
Job overview
Trainee Teacher Position: Geography
Salary: Bursary subject to eligibility. Enhanced United Learning Salary Scale in ECT Year 1 inward onwards.
Contract: Full-time, one year in the first instance. (Opportunity for successful candidates to continue their teaching career at The Regis School).
Are you ready to take the first step in your teaching career?
We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to train to teach Geography with us in partnership with United Teaching. Our Geography Department is a highly ambitious and well-established team comprising of teachers that are passionate about their subject and driven to support every student achieve their very best. The department is well led and there are several experienced mentors who have a proven track record of offering excellent developmental support to trainees, helping to facilitate the best start to their teaching career.
What makes the Regis School a great place to start your teaching career?
At The Regis School we have an extensive support programme, which has been carefully designed to support trainee teachers who are beginning their career. There are many advantages to training with us at The Regis School, which include:
· Support and training that will lead to qualified teacher status (QTS).
· Train to teach in disruption free classrooms, allowing you to focus on mastering the art of teaching.
· Access to a well-resourced Geography curriculum that includes detailed resources that will heavily structure/scaffold your lesson planning.
· Access to a dedicated mentor, with protected time each week, working closely with you as you develop as an effective classroom practitioner.
· Training both online and face-to-face with United Teaching, with protected time one day a week to support you with this training (travel expenses included as part of your training).
· Bespoke support from in-school subject specialists.
· Access to regular, research based CPD opportunities that will allow you to build your knowledge of effective teaching & learning, including weekly Geography department CPD.
· Bespoke learning walks, with incremental and specific feedback to support your continued improvement.
· Opportunities to collaborate with other trainees and colleagues from over 60 other schools within the United Learning group, who are all part of United Teaching.
· Support from our excellent behaviour and inclusion teams so you are equipped to support the individual needs of each student.
Furthermore, whilst you are training with us you will have access to a range of other benefits which include:
· The resources you need to teach well, including a laptop for use at home and a fully equipped classroom with interactive technology, including visualiser.
· Have access to reduced Gym Membership (50% off standard anytime membership) in a state of the art gym facility on campus.
· Have access to United Learning’s Staff Benefits package. Including: access to ‘Perkbox’ offering hundreds of discounts on shopping, holidays and much more.
· Have access to 10% discount on nursery place at Stepping Stones on-site nursery.
· Have access to an Employee Assistance Programme for wellbeing and access to Mental health trained staff on-site.
Eligibility:
· To access this training opportunity, you need to have at least a 2:2 degree.
· This opportunity is a non-salaried training opportunity with a bursary of £25,000, paid in equal payments over the year.
· In addition to the bursary, you may be eligible for tuition fee and maintenance loans.
· Full conditions will be discussed as part of the interview processes.
Training with us at The Regis School, in partnership with United Teaching offers you a training programme that is ambitious, flexible, and carefully designed to prepare you for the challenges and rewards of secondary teaching.
How to apply:
In the first instance please express your interest in this opportunity by contacting Vicky Ovens vicky.ovens@theregisschool.co.uk who will be more than happy to answer your questions and share details of how to apply.
Additional information:
For more information about our school, please visit our website www.theregisschool.co.uk
For more information about United Teaching please visit www.unitedteaching.org.uk
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About The Regis School
The Regis School is part of United Learning, a unique group of independent and state schools working together to achieve the best in everyone.
Our vision is to provide an excellent education so that all young people are able to make a success of their lives and, if we are to realise this vision, we need to make sure we attract, develop and reward the key ingredient, our high quality, hardworking staff.
The Regis is a school that we all feel proud of and our teachers are passionate about their work. We know that teaching can be a challenging profession, but with the support we offer and a commitment to seeing the best in each other, we work tirelessly to find creative ways to educate. We have access to a Group-wide curriculum, an intranet platform that enables sharing of resources and opportunities for work shadowing and mentorship.
The Regis School is a secondary 11-18 school with over 1600 students on roll. We are an inclusive comprehensive school that aims to achieve the best for every student. This philosophy is reflected in the successful Sixth Form of 160+ students who are offered a broad range of academic and vocational programmes. Over 70% of our students progress to Higher Education each year.
The Regis School has a well-qualified, dedicated supportive and enthusiastic staff team. We have approximately 200 staff, all of whom are committed to providing the best possible education for our students. As one of the biggest employers in Bognor Regis, we emphasise the learning of adults and young people. Staff are involved in further study, research projects and in the training of teachers in partnership with local universities.
The school boasts superb facilities in all subject areas. Each teaching area has audio-video facilities and a range of ICT suites throughout the school provides access to specialist equipment. All teachers have a laptop provided, to support teaching and administration.
The Regis School aspires to be an outstanding centre of learning, serving its community and transforming lives. We seek to equip our students for a changing world through building confidence, encouraging creativity and fostering enquiry to achieve excellence. These qualities will allow our students to flourish as leaders of the future and to take their place as caring, ambitious and responsible citizens in their communities.
Academic achievement is at the heart of what we do, ensuring students leave with the highest qualifications that enable them to be competitive in the global economy. We have a strict behaviour policy that enables teachers to teach in classrooms that are mainly free from disruption. Students who prevent others from learning are given a single warning, then learn elsewhere in the school under the supervision of senior staff.
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