Part-time Teacher of Economics
Leighton Park School
Reading
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 9 September 2024
Job overview
HMC Co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18.
Part-time (0.5) Teacher of Economics
January 2025
An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and confident teacher of Economics to join us on a part time basis from January 2025. Either a Newly Qualified Teacher or an experienced practitioner would be welcome to join our small but dedicated team. You will be expected to contribute fully to the teaching and learning of all students in an enthusiastic and accessible way, and your ability to use ICT to enhance your teaching of Economics is essential. A willingness to participate in co-curricular activities is also required.
Leighton Park won the prestigious Senior School of the Year award at the Independent Schools Association ISA Awards 2023. Among the factors considered by the judges were the School’s academic success, with our Sixth Formers achieving the best academic progress in Berkshire, our award-winning pupil personal development programme and sector-leading pastoral care. We inspire our students to imagine a better world and we hold ourselves to the same high standard.
Leighton Park School is set in over sixty acres of beautiful parkland near to the heart of Reading. Leighton Park offers a distinctive atmosphere that creates achievement with values, character and community. Founded on Quaker principles, we seek to inspire each student to fulfil their academic and personal potential and be reflective, purposeful adults. We appoint candidates who will contribute and thrive in our vibrant community.
The school offers a supportive and professional workplace with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.
To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.
Applicants are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school which delights in being diverse, open-minded and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.
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About Leighton Park School
Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for approximately 500 pupils aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.
Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In 2023 we won Senior School of the Year in the national Independent Schools Association Awards. We were also a finalist in the Independent Senior School of the Year in the TES Schools Awards 2023.
We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.
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