Teacher of Science
Smith's Wood Academy
Solihull
- £31,650 - £49,084 per year
- New
- Salary:
- £31,650 – £49,084 (MPS/UPS)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- To be confirmed
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
We are looking for a Teacher of Science to join a well-led and motivated team committed to continuous improvement.
In this role, you will:
- Set high expectations which motivate and challenge students in a productive learning environment
- Promote good outcomes by students, planning well-structured lessons
- Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
- Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all students
- Make accurate and productive use of assessment
- Fulfil wider professional responsibilities with high standards of personal and professional conduct
This is an exciting time to join us and a great opportunity to be involved in the next stage of development of this strong team. Over the last few years, there has been a real drive to develop collaborative planning of a well-sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum in order to ensure our curriculum is inclusive and all students can achieve highly.
This is an ideal opportunity for a colleague who is ambitious, creative and enthusiastic about helping students to learn in a strong, supportive environment.
About us
Located in the north of Solihull and serving students from Years 7 to 11, Smith’s Wood is in a transitional state as we embark on our next phase of continued growth. One of the most improved schools for attendance in the Midlands, we’re proud of the collective spirit and high expectations that permeate our school. It’s an exciting time to join us in our mission to “enrich the lives and transform the futures” of our young people.
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust
At Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, we enrich lives and transform futures. Our four academies in and around Birmingham offer an outstanding quality of education, recognising that all our children are individuals and delivering exceptional pastoral care to ensure their happiness. Whilst we place strong emphasis on academic achievement, we take a holistic view of education and maintain exciting extracurricular programmes to create the well-rounded young adults of tomorrow. We’re also creating outstanding careers that could take you anywhere within our network – and take your future anywhere you want to go.
Benefits
When you join Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust, you join a nurturing family where your professional satisfaction and personal happiness really count. You can expect heavy investment in your career development alongside an outstanding package of benefits, including:
- Educational support
- Flexi perks
- Salary sacrifice scheme
- Perkbox subscription
- Professional learning and regular training
- Counselling, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a Wellness Hub
- Wellbeing updates and stress management guidance
- Menopause awareness training
- Free flu jabs
- Access to fitness programmes, including yoga, HIIT and more
- Access to physical activities during our Trust-wide Wellbeing Week
- Diet and nutrition webinars
Closing date: 9.00am on 6 January 2025.
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Attached documents
About Smith's Wood Academy
- Smith's Wood Academy
- Windward Way, Smith's Wood, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B36 0UE
- United Kingdom
Smith’s Wood Academy is a large academy with just over 900 students from Year 7 to Year 11. Located in the north of Solihull, the academy serves students who live in the immediate locality.
Our vision is that every child within the Trust, regardless of their background, will attend an Academy that offers an outstanding quality of education which means to us:
» Every child is recognised as an individual and has access to first-class pastoral care because we want them to be happy.
» Every child benefits from a wide range of enriching opportunities because we place great emphasis on their personal development.
» Every child benefits from dedicated leaders, teachers and staff who a relentless in their ambition to improve the quality of teaching in our academies because we know excellent teaching is key to transforming the futures of our students
Smith’s Wood is currently in a transitional state and there is a collective spirit that is apparent as the Academy embarks on the next phase of continued growth and school improvement.
Smith’s Wood converted to an academy on the 1st April 2017, working in partnership with the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust (FMAT)
The five core values of the FMAT are central to all that we do:
Excellence – We strive for the highest quality to ensure excellent outcomes
Dedication – We believe there is dignity in hard work and effort
Ambition – We want the very best for our students
Integrity – We believe in openness and transparency
Tradition – We believe in old fashioned manners, courtesy and respect
Our aim is to prepare each and every student to succeed in the next stages of their career, education and training and to have the skills and competencies to do this. Smith’s Wood’s traditional curriculum and traditional approach to teaching and learning underpins our ethos and our drive to mastering the basics; reading, writing, communicating and mathematics.
We are incredibly proud of our Academy and its community and we sincerely hope that you decide to join the team!
At Smith’s Wood Academy we are committed to the highest standards of presentation, behaviour and achievement. A calm, purposeful environment is the key to successful learning and achievement.
Traditional values are encouraged so that students model respectful and courteous behaviour at all times. We want our students to be confident, responsible citizens who have an understanding of the world around them; we encourage them to make a positive contribution to the school and to their local communities to prepare them to excel in modern Britain. Why should a child's life chances be determined by their background? Demographics do not determine destiny.
Academic achievement is obviously vital so the students have the best chance of achieving their ambitions. The link with Fairfax School in Sutton Coldfield benefits all our students; in fact, any Year 11 student who achieves the required grades will gain entry into the Fairfax Sixth Form.
We look forward to receiving your application to join our family.
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