Teacher of English (Assistant Head of English)

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong subject knowledge, and a genuine enthusiasm for developing creative approaches to teaching in the classroom and contributing to wider opportunities in the department.

The role requires evidence of:

• Strong, innovative classroom practice
• Strong behaviour management skills
• Passion and enthusiasm to engage learners and to promote a love of reading
• Excellent subject knowledge and commitment to continuous development as a specialist practitioner
• Excellent working knowledge of pedagogy
• Knowledge and understanding of KS3, KS4 and KS5 curriculum

Willingness to train and develop including:

• Curriculum design - sequencing and progression
• Managing departmental meetings
• Leading departmental moderation
• Creating links with feeder schools 

The Department

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." (Joyce Carol Oates)

English is a thriving department at Borlase. It is an exciting, innovative place to study and work, committed to fostering a life-long passion for the beauty of the English language in our students through the skills of analysis, synthesising, extrapolating meaning and writing fluently.

The department achieves excellent GCSE and A Level results and many students go on to study English at Oxford, Cambridge and other Russell Group Universities.

The department’s curriculum is designed to develop our students’ ability to empathise and to understand relationships, psychology and people. We want them to learn and question the ‘big’ ideas of life; to learn how historical factors have influenced lives; to learn to experience things that in ‘real’ life they may never experience. We want them to learn to dream, to laugh, to cry and to escape - and, fundamentally, to learn who they are and who they will become.

The department comprises a mix of experienced and more recently qualified teachers. The Head of Department leads a culture of collaboration, sharing resources and expertise around the team. It is a vibrant learning environment with student-led Academic Societies, large numbers of students completing EPQs with a literature focus and a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities embracing creative writing, wider reading clubs and some excellent theatre and creative writing trips.

Please do contact us with any queries or if you would like to discuss your situation with us first.

For an application form please visit www.swbgs.com and click on Vacancies.

Closing date: 9am, Monday 30 September 2024

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should suitable candidates apply before the closing date.

Applications submitted via email should be sent to Mrs Anna Summerfield, Director of HR at asummerfield@swbgs.com

The school is fully committed to the DfE guidance on Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education and all candidates for the post will therefore be subject to vetting procedures following Buckinghamshire Council’s guidance and the Trust’s Safer Recruitment Policy. All shortlisted candidates will be will be subject to an online search as part of the safer recruitment process.