Full-time/Part-time (0.8), Permanent Teacher of English at More House School
TES FE News
Date: 7 hours ago
City: Farnham, England
Contract type: Part time
Job Overview
The School:
Nationally celebrated, More House School provides an exceptional, mainstream education for intelligent boys with Specific Learning Difficulties and weakness in their developmental language skills. Providing a transformative education repeatedly recognised as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted over more than a decade, we offer a specialised learning environment for day and boarding boys from Year 4 to Year 13. Our pupils are taught to recognise their strengths and develop their self-belief so that they achieve independence and extraordinary results at GCSE, BTEC and A’ Level, above the national averages. A majority progress to university.
The School has an 85-year history of supporting boys with additional challenge in their educational experience. Now with 500 pupils, the School has grown significantly in recent years and has the largest number on roll ever. It is recognised as being the largest SEND-specialist provision in the United Kingdom and is heavily involved in outreach work. More than half of pupils have their places funded by their local authorities.
Delivering a mainstream independent-school experience, both academically and socially, the very broad curriculum affords all pupils the opportunity to discover their strengths, challenging them to fulfil their academic and extra-curricular potential. Pupils benefit from classroom teaching which recognises that each pupil is individual in his profile of skill strengths and weaknesses, and which focuses on adaptive strategies which look beyond pupils’ individual diagnoses and prioritises the support of the four core elements of language, attention, processing and working memory. All teachers are supported to develop their understanding and professional practice in this respect, both on arrival and throughout their employment, through high-quality, nationally-accredited training delivered in-house.
About The Department
The English department comprises six classrooms in the centre of the campus, with additional rooms used for the teaching of some Key Stage 2 and 5 lessons. There are nine teachers and a department assistant within the department, who share a strong sense of team-spirit, with much collaborative work and mutual support. The department supports the School’s pupils to achieve extraordinary success at GCSE, and A’ Level English Literature, in spite of pupils’ neuro-diverse learning profiles.
Recently, the School’s library and two librarians moved into a newly purpose-built, much larger space next to the main English department classrooms. This capital project supported the school-wide commitment to developing pupils’ language and literacy skills, and instilling a love of literature in a broad sense. This was recognised and celebrated in our recent Ofsted school inspection report.
Class sizes are small (up to fifteen) and there is ample opportunity for boys and teachers to get involved in the school’s extensive extra-curricular programme. The highly creative and enthusiastic teaching team is keen to support the children in accessing the curriculum and encourages the boys to recognise their academic and extra-curricular potential. A key element of the school, evident through all departments, is the offer of a strong pastoral provision, recognising that the boys may perceive their previous educational experience as a failure, and they therefore need to develop their trust in the school, teachers and themselves.
About This Post
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, talented teacher - either qualified, or a graduate seeking to commence an exciting career in teaching English - to develop their enjoyment and expertise in delivering the teaching and learning of English and Literature for pupils aged eleven to eighteen, including GCSE and possibly A Level, depending on applicant. There may also be an opportunity to teach Sixth Form students supporting them in their GCSE English Language resit or guiding them through A level Literature. The candidate should be an adaptable and self-reflective professional who is capable of working collaboratively within a supportive team. Above all, the successful candidate will love the study of English in all its many forms, with the ability to communicate that passion to his or her pupils.
In addition to the commitments of the teaching timetable, the post-holder will be a form-tutor within a year-group team, supported and led by a Head of Year. They will also be required to lead an extra-curricular after-school activity on one afternoon a week from 4.30 pm until 5.30 pm during term-time. The post-holder will also participate in the supervision-duty programme, responsible within a team of staff allocated to duties at lunch and break-times, and other times as is necessary. The writing of reports and completion of other documentation, and the attendance at parent consultation evenings is required.
The above list of duties is not exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to perform such other duties as may be, from time to time, deemed necessary by the Headmaster. This is a non-residential post.
Hours
8.20 am to 4.30 pm, Monday to Friday (part-time 4 days considered). Additionally, within the first year only, new staff are required to attend the Monday afternoon induction training programme, from 4.30 pm until 5.30 pm).
(Note: academic terms are typically shorter than those in the state-maintained sector, and School holidays are therefore significantly longer).
Attendance at school events outside these hours from time to time, as well as a few INSET days towards the beginning or end of school holidays. It is expected that some time will be spent during school holiday periods in developing the department and preparing teaching opportunities and materials.
The School:
Nationally celebrated, More House School provides an exceptional, mainstream education for intelligent boys with Specific Learning Difficulties and weakness in their developmental language skills. Providing a transformative education repeatedly recognised as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted over more than a decade, we offer a specialised learning environment for day and boarding boys from Year 4 to Year 13. Our pupils are taught to recognise their strengths and develop their self-belief so that they achieve independence and extraordinary results at GCSE, BTEC and A’ Level, above the national averages. A majority progress to university.
The School has an 85-year history of supporting boys with additional challenge in their educational experience. Now with 500 pupils, the School has grown significantly in recent years and has the largest number on roll ever. It is recognised as being the largest SEND-specialist provision in the United Kingdom and is heavily involved in outreach work. More than half of pupils have their places funded by their local authorities.
Delivering a mainstream independent-school experience, both academically and socially, the very broad curriculum affords all pupils the opportunity to discover their strengths, challenging them to fulfil their academic and extra-curricular potential. Pupils benefit from classroom teaching which recognises that each pupil is individual in his profile of skill strengths and weaknesses, and which focuses on adaptive strategies which look beyond pupils’ individual diagnoses and prioritises the support of the four core elements of language, attention, processing and working memory. All teachers are supported to develop their understanding and professional practice in this respect, both on arrival and throughout their employment, through high-quality, nationally-accredited training delivered in-house.
About The Department
The English department comprises six classrooms in the centre of the campus, with additional rooms used for the teaching of some Key Stage 2 and 5 lessons. There are nine teachers and a department assistant within the department, who share a strong sense of team-spirit, with much collaborative work and mutual support. The department supports the School’s pupils to achieve extraordinary success at GCSE, and A’ Level English Literature, in spite of pupils’ neuro-diverse learning profiles.
Recently, the School’s library and two librarians moved into a newly purpose-built, much larger space next to the main English department classrooms. This capital project supported the school-wide commitment to developing pupils’ language and literacy skills, and instilling a love of literature in a broad sense. This was recognised and celebrated in our recent Ofsted school inspection report.
Class sizes are small (up to fifteen) and there is ample opportunity for boys and teachers to get involved in the school’s extensive extra-curricular programme. The highly creative and enthusiastic teaching team is keen to support the children in accessing the curriculum and encourages the boys to recognise their academic and extra-curricular potential. A key element of the school, evident through all departments, is the offer of a strong pastoral provision, recognising that the boys may perceive their previous educational experience as a failure, and they therefore need to develop their trust in the school, teachers and themselves.
About This Post
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, talented teacher - either qualified, or a graduate seeking to commence an exciting career in teaching English - to develop their enjoyment and expertise in delivering the teaching and learning of English and Literature for pupils aged eleven to eighteen, including GCSE and possibly A Level, depending on applicant. There may also be an opportunity to teach Sixth Form students supporting them in their GCSE English Language resit or guiding them through A level Literature. The candidate should be an adaptable and self-reflective professional who is capable of working collaboratively within a supportive team. Above all, the successful candidate will love the study of English in all its many forms, with the ability to communicate that passion to his or her pupils.
In addition to the commitments of the teaching timetable, the post-holder will be a form-tutor within a year-group team, supported and led by a Head of Year. They will also be required to lead an extra-curricular after-school activity on one afternoon a week from 4.30 pm until 5.30 pm during term-time. The post-holder will also participate in the supervision-duty programme, responsible within a team of staff allocated to duties at lunch and break-times, and other times as is necessary. The writing of reports and completion of other documentation, and the attendance at parent consultation evenings is required.
The above list of duties is not exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to perform such other duties as may be, from time to time, deemed necessary by the Headmaster. This is a non-residential post.
Hours
8.20 am to 4.30 pm, Monday to Friday (part-time 4 days considered). Additionally, within the first year only, new staff are required to attend the Monday afternoon induction training programme, from 4.30 pm until 5.30 pm).
(Note: academic terms are typically shorter than those in the state-maintained sector, and School holidays are therefore significantly longer).
Attendance at school events outside these hours from time to time, as well as a few INSET days towards the beginning or end of school holidays. It is expected that some time will be spent during school holiday periods in developing the department and preparing teaching opportunities and materials.
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