Head of Modern Foreign Languages
Wollaston School
Northamptonshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS & TLR2B £5,351
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 18 October 2024
Job overview
MPS / UPS & TLR2B £5,351
(Required For January 2025 —Permanent Position)
We are looking for an inspiring and innovative Head of Modern Foreign Languages to lead and develop our MFL team. The successful candidate will have a deep passion for languages, excellent leadership skills, and a commitment to promoting student engagement and linguistic proficiency.
You will lead and manage the department to ensure that students receive the highest quality of provision across all Key Stages.
You will be an excellent classroom practitioner and be able to demonstrate that you have the experience that makes you ready for subject leadership.
We currently teach French and German across all key stages and the faculty can boast some of the highest outcomes at KS4 in the school and our curriculum offer has been expanded to include Spanish. We would welcome applications from those with expertise in any of these languages but ideally a French specialism to develop this offer across the school and would relish the opportunity to embed all languages within our curriculum. We are the sole secondary school in the Nene Valley Partnership, and we work closely with our trust primaries to ensure that there is a quality languages curriculum across all phases of the trust.
It is an exciting time to join Wollaston School, having been graded as a ’good’ school in May 2023, we have a clear strategy in place to be an exceptional school by 2027. Developing our MFL provision is a key part of our plan and an amazing opportunity for a dynamic and creative individual to strengthen and grow our MFL curriculum. Therefore, the successful candidate will be well supported and well resourced to deliver exceptional language provision for our students.
Informal visits are welcomed if you would like to see us in action and to learn more about us prior to your application.
We offer a comprehensive employee benefit package Including:
- Teacher Pension Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- An open & welcoming site
- Free Onsite Parking
- New Spin Studio
- School Counsellor
- Regular Team Building Events
Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 18th October 2024
Interviews are likely to commence: Week beginning Monday 21st October 2024
Please contact our HR department for an application form, further details about this role or to arrange a visit on: recruitment@wollaston-school.net Alternatively you can download details directly from the school website at: www.wollastonschool.com
Wollaston School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Wollaston School
- Wollaston School
- Irchester Road, Wollaston, Wellingborough
- Northamptonshire
- NN29 7PH
- United Kingdom
Wollaston School is a large, rural community school located in a village setting about 15 minutes drive from Northampton. The student intake draws on nearby villages and the towns of Earls Barton, Wellingborough, and Irchester. We have over 1400 students on roll with approximately 240 students in the Sixth Form. The school is over-subscribed. Wollaston School was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2023.
We are a school that takes great pride in our central purpose - to prepare every student for success. Success in academic qualifications, success in a wide range of extra-curricular and leadership activities and success in every individual’s personal and social development. We work towards this mission through a focus on exceptional levels of pastoral support and an academic and enrichment programme designed to ensure that every individual reaches their true potential.
At Wollaston, we believe in aiming high. We target excellence with the utmost commitment, but we also remember that a truly inspiring education is one that is filled with joy, laughter and happiness. We are also a school that is led by our values. We value honesty, kindness and tolerance. We embrace individuality as well as collective responsibility, we celebrate diversity, promote equality of opportunity, and we are a community which supports every individual to achieve all that they are capable of.
For most students, Wollaston School provides an education which lasts for seven years, from age 11 to age 18. Our ambition is to ensure that at the end of that journey, every student is ready to take their place in society as positive, purposeful, ethical and well qualified individuals.
Life at Wollaston School is characterised by an ethos of warmth, respect and ambition. We value effective working relationships with parents and we believe in delivering a high quality professional service in every aspect of our work. We offer a broad and exciting curriculum, expert teaching and high standards of academic achievement. We promote impeccable standards of behaviour and we expect the very best of every individual who walks through our doors. We are a team of staff and students who are committed to ensuring that our school is a truly exceptional place of learning.
Welcome to Wollaston School. If you would like to see us at work, please book a visit; we would be proud to show you our school.
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