Head of History
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Westminster School
Westminster
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary and an associated responsibility allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 27 January 2025
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced History teacher to play a key role in the leadership of a large and vibrant History department.
As Head of History, the successful candidate will occupy a pivotal and highly valued place in the intellectual and cultural life of Westminster School.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Successfully teaching history and contributing to the educational aims of the School in ways that will inspire pupils;
- Leading your departmental colleagues and playing a significant role in their professional development;
- Ensuring the efficient administration of the department’s resources, facilities and budget;
- Representing the department both within and beyond the School.
To succeed in this role, the successful candidate will need previous experience of teaching History to A-Level, as well as an in-depth subject knowledge sufficient to cover and teach beyond CIE IGCSE and OCR A-Level History. They will also need excellent administrative skills and the ability to lead, motivate and support your colleagues in their work. Previous experience of managing an academic department is desirable, but not essential.
History at Westminster School
History is one of the most popular humanities subjects at GCSE and A Level. The Department is large and vibrant, with a strong academic ethos and a focused team ethic. The History curriculum covers a wide range of topics including 19th-century European imperialism, the Cold War, the rise of fascism and the fall of Tsarism.
There is a weekly History Society in which pupils give talks about their own areas of historical interest. We also welcome visiting speakers regularly throughout the year. A history magazine, LJR, is published twice a year and the pupils’ appreciation of the past has been enhanced by visits to Berlin, the Middle East, Russia and Paris.
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The deadline for applications is midday on Monday 27th January 2025.
Interviews will take place w/c Monday 3rd February 2025.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school for boys aged 13-18 and girls aged 16-18, with a long history, a distinctive ethos, and a unique sense of place in the very heart of London. Pupils achieve exceptional examination results and entrance to some of the top universities in the world. It is a busy, passionate and purposeful place where independent and deep thinking is enjoyed, encouraged and respected by all, and where holistic excellence is nurtured and valued.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future. At Westminster, pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led societies take place every week at the School, often with expert guest speakers, and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in local primary schools, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.
From September 2028, the School will welcome both girls and boys at 13+ entry, offering a Westminster education to all. By 2026, Westminster Under School will have opened its brand new pre-prep for girls and boys at 4+ and girls will have joined boys in Years 3 and 7, at the 7+ and 11+ entry points. By 2030, all year groups at Westminster School and Westminster Under School, from ages four to 18, will be fully co-educational, reflecting the School’s dedication to inclusivity and excellence.
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