Head of Faculty - STEM
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Truro High School for Girls
Cornwall
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Dependent on skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 October 2024
Job overview
Head of Faculty - STEM
Full Time and Permanent, Required: September 2025
Truro High School is seeking to appoint an innovative and dynamic Head of Faculty for STEM from September 2025 and is open to applicants with the requisite qualities and desire to lead an experienced and talented faculty staff. The faculty covers the academic subjects of science, mathematics, psychology, food & nutrition, computing and astronomy, all of which are popular, thriving subjects and achieve strong results in public examinations. There is an extensive extra-curricular programme within the faculty and the successful candidate will be required to build on this programme and develop it further.
The Head of Faculty is expected to teach 80% of a timetable and to be a form tutor if required.
The successful candidate will:
· Have excellent relationships with students and a belief in a High Performance Learning approach to teaching and learning.
· Be an outstanding and committed practitioner, innovative in their methods, able to enthuse students.
· Be keen to work collaboratively with colleagues to support the development of teaching and learning within the faculty.
· Eager to play a full part in whole school life including extra-curricular activities, school trips and after school clubs.
Applications should be accompanied by a covering letter addressed to the Headmistress, Mrs Sarah Matthews. Applications should be emailed to recruitment@trurohigh.co.uk
The closing date for applications is 12 noon, Friday 4th October 2024. Interviews will be held Wednesday 16th October 2024.
Attached documents
About Truro High School for Girls
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Truro High School is an award-winning independent girls’ school with around 400 pupils from the ages of 3-18, serving the local community in Truro, Cornwall, and well beyond. It takes pupils on a day, boarding or flexi-boarding basis, and runs a prep School, senior school and sixth form all on the same site.
Truro High School was founded in 1880 by Bishop Benson of Truro, moving to its current premises close to the centre of Truro in 1896.
Headmistress
Sarah Matthews
Values and vision
Truro High School strives to provide a personalised and happy all-round education that enables every girl to achieve her life and career aspirations. It aims to achieve this by offering outstanding teaching and pastoral care. It encourages girls both to grasp opportunities and to aim high, and to care for others in the community.
The school maintains a strong belief in the value of single-sex education, believing that they give girls the opportunity to take the lead in fields which are often male-dominated - giving as an example its thriving engineering programme.
ISI
"The pupils’ personal development is excellent. All pupils, from those in EYFS to the sixth form, are happy, kind, thoughtful and supportive of their peers...Inspectors judged that the wealth of opportunities available makes a considerable contribution.”
“Pupils throughout the school are successful in a wide range of activities, whether academic, sporting or creative. They achieve regular success in national maths challenge competitions and science Olympiads."
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