Food & Nutrition Teacher - Full-time

We are seeking to appoint a Food & Nutrition teacher for a 1st January 2025 start on a full-time basis.

As a school, we currently teach Cooking and Nutrition to classes in years 7 to 9 and the WJEC Hospitality and Catering Level 1/ 2 Award in years 10 to 11.

Cooking is a very popular subject in our school and all our pupils engage very well in their cooking lessons. The Cooking department is a small, friendly, and enthusiastic team including two food technicians. Our cooking department is very well resourced with excellent facilities and a healthy department budget. 

You will teach high-quality lessons and achieve excellent results across all year groups.

You will share our ambition to provide a great educational experience for all of our students and it is also crucial that you will be aligned with the culture and values of the school, so please read our information on Cultural Fit carefully to ensure you are clear that we are the kind of organisation you wish to be a part of.

We are a highly aspirational school but we also really prioritise staff and student wellbeing and have just had our work in this area recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools (2023) and the Leading Parent Partnership Award (2023).

Stratford School Academy is an inclusive, mixed, community school characterised by high expectations, a rigorous academic curriculum and caring pastoral systems. We are a popular, high-performing school (Progress 8 is +0.4. Our most recent Ofsted report (November 2022) noted, ‘This is a school where pupils learn successfully in a calm and supportive environment. Pupils achieve strong outcomes. Staff are proud to work at this school.’ 

We firmly believe that every student can excel and we seek to provide an inspirational learning journey that maximises student progress. The key pillars of this are excellent behaviour based on mutual respect, great teaching, a wide range of engaging activities beyond the classroom and really knowing and valuing every child. This means our students are safe and cared for, follow an academic curriculum and are supported to achieve the best of their potential in both their GCSEs and in developing their wider talents, character and sense of civic duty. This is all underpinned by our core values of respect, excellence and responsibility.

Stratford School Academy has been rebuilt and redeveloped through the Priority Schools Building Programme recently. We now have two new buildings, each for 750 students situated on separate sites but close to one another. The two sites operate as parallel ‘mini schools’ educating students from Year 7 to 11.

You have the chance to join us at an exciting time as we continue to implement improvements which will enhance the educational experience of our students.

Stratford School Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to successful completion of Safer Recruitment checks, including an Enhanced DBS and social media check.

If you have any queries, please email HR@stratfordschoolacademy.org with your details.

Application process: A TES Application Form can be submitted via the TES portal.

Closing Date: 10am on Monday 2.12.24 (please note that we reserve the right to shortlist and/or interview and appoint before that deadline and so potential applicants are encouraged to submit their applications at the earliest opportunity).