Part-Time PE Teacher 0.6

Abbey College

Details for applicants

Who are we?

The Physical Education department is comprised of 6 staff, with varying specialisms in terms of sports and teaching and learning. We have an experienced, supportive and creative team of practitioners, who are extremely passionate about their subject. We have committed to raising the aspirations of our children over the last two years via increased engagement in lessons and extra-curricular clubs, a focus on planning lessons to enable independent and collaborative learning, offering challenge in all lessons, and providing high quality feedback. We are a dedicated and passionate team who have had real success in the last five years which also makes our department one of the most successful at Abbey College.

The PE Department has been successful over a number of years at KS3, 4 and 5. In particular the KS4 & 5 results have been consistently good for attainment; 100% of our PE students achieving a Grade 4 or above at KS4 in either GCSE PE or Cambridge National Sports Studies and 100% of KS5 students achieving a Merit or above in BTEC Sport in 2022. We expect our results to continue to be successful and look forward to a good number of our Year 11 students continuing their studies with us at our successful Sixth Form. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver all 3 of these qualifications and experience in delivering some of these would be desired. In particular, experience in delivering and potentially leading on KS5 BTEC Sport would be desired.

Would you like to visit us?

Informal visits are welcomed. We are not as far away as you think and driving through the countryside each morning is a very pleasant way to start you day! You’ll find us just 20-25 minutes from Peterborough and Huntingdon, and commutable from Cambridge too. Why not come and visit us so we can show you more of our school?

 What do I do if I want to know more before applying?

You are very welcome to come and visit our wonderful school, please just let us know and we will arrange a tour of the department and wider school. More information is available on our website. However, if you have any further questions, please contact Ben Pugh BPugh@abbey.college

We look forward to meeting you and receiving your application.www.abbeycollege.cambs.sch.uk

Job description

Abbey College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.

The responsibilities of the post will be in accordance with the Teacher’s standards, latest School teachers’ pay and conditions, school’s policies and under the direction of the Headteacher.

Job role and purpose

In addition to the requirements of a class teacher and any other agreed responsibilities: To work with the PE Leader

Teacher Expectations:

• Good or outstanding classroom skills
• Ability to create effective lesson plans
• Ability to use assessment to inform planning for good teaching and learning
• Experience or desire to be involved in a curriculum initiative
• Ability to differentiate materials to meet the needs of learners
• Experience or desire to raise standards of achievements
• Willingness to continue to develop own expertise
• Ability to build good relationships with students and colleagues
• Be well organized and able to obtain accurate records
• Ability to use ICT effectively to engage students
• Humble, Intuitive and Passionate

Person Specification

Skills and abilities:

• Able to manage people effectively, set high standards, to administer efficiently, to work collaboratively and to give leadership to colleagues
• Confident use of ICT with the ability to use it to enhance pupil learning in the classroom
• Able to use assessment for learning and assessment data to raise standards of achievement in groups of learners
• Able to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people, including pupils, parents and colleagues
• Ability to be a committed and effective Form Tutor

Personal qualities:

• Enthusiastic and committed to the teaching of PE
• Creative in problem solving together with a willingness to take on new approaches and ideas
• A positive attitude towards continuing professional development and their own learning with ambition for further development and promotion
• A positive, “can do” approach to cope with the challenges ahead
• Reliability and integrity
• Professionally ambitious
• Willingness to provide extra-curricular activities that extend pupils’ experience and to contribute to the wider life of the School
• Committed to the welfare and safeguarding of young people
• Humble, Intuitive and Passionate

Wellbeing

• Ensure all pupils have equal access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources, where necessary.
• Liaise with pastoral staff members to ensure the wellbeing of pupils and their full participation in school life.
• Raise any concerns regarding pupils’ behaviour with the relevant Raising Standards Lead.
• Implement any specific arrangements for individual pupils, ensuring that relevant staff members are aware of the measures in place.
• Provide individual pastoral support to pupils, where necessary.
• Continuously motivate and challenge pupils, whilst promoting and reinforcing self-esteem.

Safeguarding

• To have the ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
• Appreciate the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people whatever their life circumstances.
• To have a good understanding of the safeguarding agenda and can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment.
• The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice and information in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. 

Variation Clause

• This job description will be reviewed and updated periodically in order to ensure that it relates to the job performed or to incorporate any proposed changes. This procedure will be conducted by the Headteacher or line manager in consultation with the post-holder. In these circumstances it will be the aim to reach agreement on reasonable changes but if agreement is not possible management reserves the right to make changes to the job description following consultation.