Teacher of German
Dame Alice Owen's School
Hertfordshire
- New
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 17 January 2025
Job overview
The Governors of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invite applications for the post of Teacher of German. The ability to teach a second language may be an advantage.
We seek a highly motivated and energetic candidate to join our very successful and very well resourced Modern Languages department as part of a team of specialist language teachers (teaching French, German and Spanish) and language assistants.
The vast majority of students are expected to take a language at GCSE and German is a popular option. You will need to be able to teach students up to and including A level.
In the 2024 A level examinations:
- 60% of A Level German results were graded A*-A with 100% graded A*-B.
In 2024 GCSE examinations:
- 30% of GCSE German results were grade 9, with 57% achieving a grade 7, 8 or 9.
To arrange a tour or informal discussion about this position, please contact Katja Moller, Head of German at mollerk@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
Please download our application form from our website to make your application. Please note that applications cannot be considered unless the application is completed in full. We are not able to accept CVs for any posts based in school.
To apply, please email your completed application forms together with a covering letter stating why you are well placed to take this position at our school to recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
Closing date: 9.00am on Friday 17 January 2025.
Interview date: Wednesday 22 January 2025.
We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
The post you are applying for is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and applicants will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings that are not “protected” (as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure check.
Attached documents
About Dame Alice Owen's School
- Dame Alice Owen's School
- Dugdale Hill Lane, Potters Bar
- Hertfordshire
- EN6 2DU
- United Kingdom
HEADTEACHER’S WELCOME
Thank you for your interest in applying to Dame Alice Owen’s School. Though much of the information we have about our school is available on our website, we know you are busy so have put some key information in this pack to help you understand who we are and what we do.
Our school was founded 400 years ago by Dame Alice Owen, a remarkable philanthropist with an unusually modern vision for education. She established the first school in Islington and, as demand outstripped space, it moved to its current setting, in the Hertfordshire countryside, in 1976.
Today, Owen’s is an exciting place to work where “staff overwhelmingly feel well cared for” and behaviour is “exemplary.” [Ofsted December 2023] Ours is a school where teachers love talking about teaching and learning, where relationships between students and staff are positive and strong, and where we do what we can to keep workload manageable. We are never complacent; we are always looking for marginal gains in order to keep what we do reasonable, but exciting. It is the combination of interested students, dedicated staff, supportive parents, a rigorous and empathetic Governing Body and school leadership team (staff and student) which makes our school such a special place to be.
Dame Alice Owen’s School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with approximately 1,460 students including over 400 in our vibrant and highly successful sixth form. Our school benefits from some of the most able students in the country. In the 2024 A level examinations; 63% of all A level grades were A*-A with 87% of grades being awarded A*-B. In GCSE examinations, students achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 74.2 and an estimated Progress 8 score in the region of +0.9 with 34% of all grades awarded at level 9 and 94% of students achieving 5 or more grades 9 – 4 including English and Maths. Many of our school leavers from Year 13 have offers from top universities to choose from, including an average of 24 places at Oxbridge each year.
We were delighted to be recognised as ‘The Sunday Times Regional School of the Decade’ in 2020 and the country’s highest ranking non-fully selective state school of the year many times over. Securing a place at Owen’s has been described as “winning the lottery” in the Good School Guide, “the golden ticket” in Tatler and Ofsted judged us “outstanding” in all categories in December 2023, with no areas for improvement.
If you’d like to come and join us, we would love to meet you and talk to you more. Please call to arrange a chat, if you would like to, or just send us your completed application pack. I look forward to meeting you
Hannah Nemko Headteacher
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