English Teacher
Outwood Academy City Fields
Wakefield
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS1-UPR3: £30,000 - £46,525
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter or September 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 January 2024
Job overview
Full Time or Part Time considered
Additional Benefits
£25 per hour for holiday / weekend revision sessions - max £125 per day (voluntary)
Opportunities to offer 1:1 virtual tuition after school and weekends paid at £32.61 per hour
3 extra days holiday per year for all teaching staff
Minimum 2 hour weekly CPD session for all teaching staff plus other CPD opportunities
Outwood Academy City Fields is looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and inspiring classroom practitioner with a real passion for English. We offer an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and motivated team. An excellent knowledge and understanding of the subject is essential. You must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of ‘students first’. Applications are invited from both newly qualified and experienced professionals. The department is fully staffed and this appointment is to enable the school to build capacity in advance of need.
We have nine teachers, including an EAL specialist and a primary specialist. We also have a one-to-one tutor who specialises in The Ruth Miskin ‘Fresh Start’ phonics programme and an extensive Library which is at the heart of the school to support students’ reading needs which is run by a full-time enthusiastic librarian. The department has recently been commended by Renaissance for their excellent use of MyOn and the library is a dynamic environment full of opportunities for reading games and challenges. The department is a combination of experienced staff and more recent entrants to the profession. Teaching takes place in the department’s eight classrooms. Every classroom has a visualiser and these are used extensively by the team. All classrooms have large interactive television screens.
The department has created a rich and engaging KS3 curriculum which includes well-chosen texts such as The Hounding of David Oluwale and the free-form poem Long Way Down. The curriculum also includes three immersive reads per year (at KS3) which are designed to foster a love of reading for pleasure as well as develop comprehension skills. The curriculum is a strategic mix of multi-cultural texts to reflect the local area and the lives of the students and more traditional texts to build on cultural capital. Oracy is also a huge part of the curriculum and is embedded in all teaching and learning.
As in all OGAT secondary academies, the department prepares students for Eduqas GCSE English Language and English Literature qualifications. The programme of study is fully resourced with high-quality materials produced by staff across the trust who know this specification well. We aim to help all our teachers to become ‘experts’ in preparing students for GCSE examinations, using our thorough and systematic methods devised over many years. We have the benefit of support from the trust’s team of expert English directors, who provide support, materials, advice, coaching and who model and team-teach in lessons alongside us to develop our expertise. As an indication of our success, each year over 70% of year 11 students achieve a pass in English, with strong positive average progress for all students.
If you are interested in joining this team, please contact Rupert Burgess, Regional Director of English via email (r.burgess@outwood.com) who would be pleased to tell you more and we would be delighted to welcome you on a visit if you would like to see us in person.
If you share our vision, then why not join our family?
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Closing date: Midday on 22 January 2024.
Interview date: 26 January 2024
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About Outwood Academy City Fields
- Outwood Academy City Fields
- Warmfield View, Wakefield
- West Yorkshire
- WF1 4SF
- United Kingdom
Chief Executive Officer: Lee Wilson
Principal: Michelle Colledge-Smith
Outwood Academy City Fields is an 11-16 academy based in the friendly cathedral city of Wakefield. The Academy was rated Good by Ofsted in March 2022. We joined the Outwood family of schools in 2018.
Excellent teaching and the highest standards of behaviour are at the heart of everything we do, and we champion innovation in all aspects of learning. We were delighted that in its latest report, Ofsted noted ‘Outwood Academy City Fields is a school where leaders want the very best for pupils. Their motto of putting ‘students first’ is something that directs and guides leaders’ actions each day. Because leaders set such a strong example of their high ambitions for pupils, other staff mirror these aspirations’.
We know that the ingredients of a great school are an inclusive, broad and balanced curriculum, high quality teaching and learning, positive behaviours which promote engagement and great pastoral support which, when combined can create a great culture where we raise standards and transform lives.
At the heart of everything we do is excellent teaching and the highest standards of behaviour. We champion innovation in all aspects of learning, while striving to develop a school-wide mindset based around mutual respect and tolerance.
We believe our success speaks for itself as we are above the national average for the number of students achieving at a Grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs. We are also proud to have been awarded Silver Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award.
As we look to build on our success, help to take us to the next level.
The Outwood Family of Schools pride ourselves on fully supporting colleagues within the Family both professionally and personally.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
As a founding Trust of the National Institute of Education (NIoT), we will actively invest in your future through working closely with the Outwood Institute of Education and NIoT to offer access to a wide range of CPD opportunities, with all teaching staff receiving a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
We also offer a generous employment package with a whole host of staff benefits, including family friendly policies, enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period, funded CPD for qualifications up to and including Masters level plus other exclusive benefits including a partnership with car leasing company, Synergy.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
If you share our vision, join our family.
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