Maths Teacher at Durrington High School - Maternity Cover 2025
Durrington High School
West Sussex
- £30,290 - £46,989 per year
- New
- Salary:
- DMAT M1 - UPR3
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 7 October 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Maths Teacher for Maternity Cover between the period of January 2025 and July 2025.
Durrington High School has a super Mathematics department staffed by an innovative and experienced team. We have a strong and collaborative ethos within the department that has enabled us to continue to achieve strong examination results for students across the ability range. Continually striving to improve what we do, our core belief is that every one of our students deserves to learn Maths in a high quality and positive learning environment.
We are looking to recruit a strong teacher to cover a 2-term maternity leave. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to the team and achieve excellent outcomes for the students they teach.
The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher who is dedicated to delivering high quality lessons and is prepared to commit themselves to the role completely. This is not a department where you can rest on your laurels; we have extremely high expectations and expect every teacher to make a contribution to our on-going success. As a research school, you will work with a department that makes the most of evidence informed teaching and uses teaching for mastery as a focus at all times.
In return you will find us a very supportive and warm team, with a range of experiences and teaching styles but also receptive to new ideas. You will be working with a focused and proactive team who thrive on sharing ideas and resources whilst working to a fully interactive Scheme of Work that every member of staff follows and contributes to, this includes numerous resources and structured homework tasks.
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About Durrington High School
Working at Durrington
At Durrington we have worked hard to develop a culture in our school where teachers and leaders are looked after, supported and professionally enriched. We would love to hear from you if you think that you might want to play a part in the exciting Durrington journey! In an ever-changing educational landscape, we focus on clear priorities:
- Ensuring all staff are able to have a sensible work/life balance - this means that we constantly review what we do, so teachers and leaders are able to focus on their core purpose.
- An evidence informed approach to teaching and CPD - we don’t want our teachers wasting their time on low-impact, gimmicky approaches to teaching. We want them to shape their teaching around what research evidence says is most likely to work. As one of only 39 Research Schools in the country, we are at the forefront of ensuring everything we do is informed by research evidence.
- Developing and growing our own excellent leaders, who in turn are able to nurture their own high-performing teams.
- Appointing external candidates with shared values, who will thrive in our school.
Looking After Our Staff
At Durrington we know that our staff are our most valuable resource. As a result, we have put in place a number of strategies to alleviate the pressures on staff. These include:
- We have moved away from a ‘tick-box’ approach to teaching and have embraced a ‘tight but loose’ approach. We want teaching to be tight, in terms of focusing on sound, evidence-informed pedagogical principles, but loose in terms of how this is interpreted in classrooms by subject specialists.
- Each department has developed their own streamlined feedback and homework policies, aimed at reducing workload whilst optimising impact.
- Teachers are not expected to write lengthy reports for students, but to record a current and projected grade for students and a judgement grade for effort and homework. •
- Enhanced pay scales and rapid progression opportunities.
- Teacher non-contact time above the national average.
- We have just three data collection points for each year group in a year, informed by ongoing assessment of student progress.
- We do not grade lesson observations.
- Fortnightly joint planning CPD within curriculum teams saves a significant amount of time for individual teachers.
- INSET days are used for collaborative planning in curriculum teams.
- Teachers are not expected to keep lengthy ‘evidence files’ for appraisal.
- All staff are registered with Healthshield for a range of wellbeing and practical support services with benefits including a variety of treatments for musculoskeletal issues, 24/7 GP and Employee Assistance Programme.
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