Teacher of English
Queen Katharine Academy
Peterborough
- New
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2025 or January 2025 (if possible)
- Apply by:
- 9 December 2024
Job overview
English Teacher
Contract: Permanent
Salary: MPS/UPS
Site: Queen Katharine Academy
Closing date: 9th December 2024
Interview date: 10th December 2024
Start: Easter 2025 or January 2025 (if possible)
Please note – Thomas Deacon Education Trust withhold the right to withdraw the advert and/or interview suitable candidates before the specified closing date.
Do you have a passion for teaching English and inspiring young minds?
Are you ready to join a dynamic team and make a real difference in students' lives?
If so, Queen Katharine Academy wants you!
Your Role:
As an English Teacher at Queen Katharine Academy, you will deliver engaging lessons that follow the curriculum and help students achieve their full potential. You will collaborate with colleagues to develop teaching programmes and assessments, maintain positive behaviour and discipline, and engage with parents and external bodies to support students. Additionally, you will participate in professional development, lead extra-curricular activities, and mentor a tutor group, monitoring their social and academic progress.
About us:
The English team at QKA are an award-winning department with an ambitious and aspiring team. the team have been awarded the TES English Team of the Year 2021 award for their delivery of a ‘multi-layered approach in bringing texts to life for students, as well as the uniqueness of the curriculum and the ways in which diversity in literature is strongly embedded’ (TES Judges). The team were also shortlisted for the Bernice McCabe Award and were highly commended by the PTI for their work on the growth in their KS5 provision and social mobility.
The department is well resourced and led by fantastic practitioners and we are looking to appoint a colleague who shares their enthusiasm and unwavering determination to help every student enjoy, achieve and progress in English from KS3 through to KS5. In Sixth Form, A Level English Language and A Level English Literature are delivered and, in both subjects, students make well above average progress given their starting points.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a school within one of the well-regarded Trusts in the eastern region. The school has a great history of success and a bright and exciting future and we are looking for an ambitious and dynamic teacher to steer it through the next stage of its development. Collaboration, educational research and professional development are at the core of how the schools within Thomas Deacon Education Trust work together. With a clear focus on teaching at all levels, the Trust is well placed to provide great opportunities to promote Thomas Deacon Academy as a leading school and you will be given effective support to develop you personally as an outstanding teacher.
Why work for us?
We are part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust, and we can offer you:
Progression opportunities across the Trust
Continuous development, e.g. training, coaching
Free eye test vouchers and flu vaccinations
Cycle to work scheme
Recommend a Friend Reward scheme
Access to the most generous pension schemes in the UK (LGPS & teachers’ pension scheme)
Free & confidential Employee Assistance Programme
Mental health first aiders
Collaborative working across schools in the Trust
If you have the skills we are looking for, we can’t wait to meet you!
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Thomas Deacon Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Academy will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
At Thomas Deacon Education Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Join us in fostering an inclusive and supportive environment where all contributions are valued.
If you have any questions regarding this post, please contact the HR Team on e-mail
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About Queen Katharine Academy
- Queen Katharine Academy
- Mountsteven Avenue, Walton, Peterborough
- Cambridgeshire
- PE4 6HX
- United Kingdom
Queen Katharine Academy is a member of the Peterborough based Thomas Deacon Education Trust and opened in September 2017 having emerged from its predecessor school, The Voyager Academy. The name change signified a deep desire to be associated with its local community and to align itself with the admirable the Academy building values of Katharine of Aragon who is buried in the city’s cathedral.
Whilst a building does not make a school, it is worth noting that the Academy building is a purpose built, modern facility, providing a range of impressive classrooms and multi-use communal spaces with expansive playing fields and sporting facilities. The Academy is a larger than average 11-19 school in north Peterborough with approximately 1100 students on roll – 300 in the sixth form. We are acutely aware that the key purpose of the Academy is to put students first and everything we do must reflect that aim. Our vision is: “To be an inclusive centre of educational excellence.”We seek to ensure that students receive a broad and balanced education that enables them to achieve their potential and take the appropriate next steps in their lives as valued and confident members of society. We have high expectations of our students in all that they do and this is underpinned by a set of guiding principles focussed around the key concept of respect, ensuring that our Academy is a purposeful, calm and safe place to learn. Similarly, we have high expectations of ourselves and strive to provide high quality support and guidance alongside stimulating and engaging learning experiences.
We are very much committed to working with parents and carers and firmly believe that effective, long-lasting partnerships are crucial in supporting our students to be the best that they can be.
Through high standards in teaching and pastoral care and the many opportunities provided both within the formal curriculum and beyond, our students are prepared for entrance to higher education, high quality employment and the future careers of their choice. Visitors to the Academy often comment on the calm purposeful learning environment which our staff and students create and enjoy. We are committed to providing an excellent education which allows every young person to achieve the best possible set of qualifications.
Equally, we value the importance of developing young people who are positive, confident, self-reflective citizens, fully equipped to take their place in the world. We offer students a range of exciting leadership roles and all learners are encouraged to participate in our excellent enrichment programme, which includes a very successful Combined Cadet Force, a flourishing Duke of Edinburgh programme and extensive extra-curricular opportunities in the sports and arts.
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