Mandarin Teacher
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- Easter 2025
- Apply by:
- 27 November 2024
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled teacher of Mandarin.
Teaching will range across Years 7-13. Year 7 are taught as part of a carousel, Year 8 is currently taught off-timetable at lunchtime and after school, with Y9, KS4 and 5 being timetabled as part of the formal curriculum. We offer HSK 1, 3 and 4 at KS5 rather than A-level.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with the appropriate experience to work as part of a very successful Modern Foreign Languages team in a highly academic setting.
Modern Foreign Languages at Wimbledon High School:
Within the MFL Department, we teach French, German and Spanish to A-Level. We have five full-time and four part-time teachers as well as language assistants in all three modern languages.
We also run extra-curricular language clubs, conferences with partner schools and many trips. We are always keen to further develop our co-curricular contribution.
About the School:
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Wednesday 27 November 2024.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 4 December 2024.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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