Teacher of Geography - 1 year fixed term

Age Range – 11-19

Full-time 1 Year Fixed

Responsible to Head of Humanities Faculty

Start: September 2025

Salary: MPS or UPS

The Role

To provide highly effective teaching of Humanities with a main specialism of Geography, contributing to the ongoing development of the geography curriculum and the Humanities Faculty. To be a full and contributing member of the Humanities Faculty and the Academy.

The Humanities Faculty currently encompasses a wide range of subjects including:

Key stage 3 & 4 & 5 Geography

Key stage 3 & 4 History (A level History in September 2024)

Key stage 3 & 4 RE core and GCSE

Key stage 3 & 4 & 5 PSHCE and Citizenship

Key stage 3 & 4 French

Key stage 4 & 5 Business Studies

Key stage 5 Finance

Key stage 4 &5 Health & Social Care

Key stage 5 Sociology

Key stage 5 Psychology

The Humanities Faculty at David Nieper Academy

The Humanities faculty at David Nieper Academy includes Geography, History, Religious Studies, MFL, PSHE/Citizenship, Business Studies, Health & Social Care, Sociology and Psychology. Despite its wide variety of subjects, the faculty works very closely together and shares a common ethos when it comes to education. Our view is that every single young person – regardless of their background – is entitled to access the rich body of knowledge that characterises the disciplines we represent. We firmly believe that it is from this rigorous knowledge-led foundation that students are best-equipped to succeed in the applied learning opportunities that we are committed to providing here at David Nieper Academy. As such, successful candidates would be joining a faculty that:

·        Is committed to developing innovative, research-informed teaching based on knowledge of how children learn

·        Celebrates explicit instruction as an approach to teaching that supports the fostering of students’ knowledge acquisition, independence and criticality skills

·        Is self-reflective and constantly striving to improve the key principles of our practice (namely: review, acquire, question, model, practice, assess and feedback)

·        Is newly and fully resourced after a recent curriculum over-haul

·        Has a ‘warm but strict’ approach to discipline where expectations are high

·        Is highly supportive and enjoys a strong sense of collegiality and humour

Overall, this is an immensely exciting time to join this thriving and growing faculty on our drive to improve results. Our knowledge-led approach is proving to be more popular than ever amongst students. For example, geography continues to be a very popular GCSE option in the academy, and we are actively marketing for our A-level course (first Year 13 students are completing the course this year), whilst History, Religious Studies and Business began the current academic year with their largest GCSE intakes in a number of years. If you have any further questions about our Faculty, please do get in touch.

Key Responsibilities

·        To teach Geography across key stage 3, 4 & 5 contributing to the planning and organisation of the curriculum

·        To teach PSHCE and potentially other humanities subjects

·        To be a form tutor

·        To contribute to the co-curricular life of the school

·        Participate in the academy Performance Management arrangements

Teaching and Learning

·        Plan and teach engaging and challenging lessons that pave the way for success in school and life

·        Meet the needs of all learners by consistently planning and teaching carefully differentiated lessons

·        Contribute to Faculty planning and the creation and updating of schemes of work

·        Use regular, measurable and significant assessments of teaching

·        Set and mark appropriate homework

·        Complete all reporting on time

·        Closely monitor progress and attainment of all students and use it to inform teaching

·        Provide content for and, where necessary, deliver high quality student interventions with direction from the Head of Faculty

·        Work to ensure that all students achieve or exceed targets

·        Maintain regular and productive communication with parents about their child’s progress, behaviour and development, including attending after school parent meetings as required

Other

·        Undertake professional development as agreed with academy leaders

·        Perform additional duties and tasks required for the effective operation of the school as directed by the Headteacher.