Subject Leader History
The Astley Cooper School
Hertfordshire
- Salary:
- UPS/MPS + TLR
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2025 or earlier
- Apply by:
- 9 December 2024
Job overview
As our school continues to grow we are looking for an experienced and committed Subject Leader for History to join our established Humanities team, who has a passion for teaching and enjoys building positive relationships with young people to help them achieve more than they thought possible. The successful candidate must have an appropriate teaching qualification and be qualified to degree level. They should be a highly motivated and enthusiastic professional, an excellent classroom practitioner of all key stages and have a desire to support students from deprived backgrounds.
We welcome applications from ECTs and experienced teachers.
The Astley Cooper School is an increasingly popular oversubscribed secondary school in Hemel Hempstead. At Astley Cooper, we strive for the very best for all our staff and students. The school is situated at the edge of Hemel Hempstead, serving a diverse demographic. The school is within easy access of the M1/M25 and the train station.
The school is proud to be part of the Government’s Priority School Building Programme. This huge investment in our school has seen our cohort numbers increase as well our profile in the community. The school has state of the art facilities including a leisure centre, swimming pool and new science laboratory/classrooms benefiting staff, students and our wider community for many years to come.
We are committed to ensuring that when students leave, they have become successful, well-rounded, and confident individuals prepared to succeed in the modern world.
As a school we are pleased to be able to offer:
Ø A competitive salary
Ø Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Ø Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
Ø Vivup – a HCC cash back scheme
Ø Mentoring for our ECT colleagues
Ø A comprehensive CPD programme for all colleagues
Visits to the school are welcomed or should you wish to discuss this role further please contact the Deputy Headteacher, Mr Tilbury either by telephone: 01442 394141 or email via the Headteacher’s PA, Mrs Louise Dorey at admin@astleycooper.herts.sch.uk. Further details about the school can also be found on the school website www.astleycooper.herts.sch.uk.
If you have not heard from the school by the closing date of this advert, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received
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About The Astley Cooper School
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- The Astley Cooper School
- St. Agnells Lane, Hemel Hempstead
- Hertfordshire
- HP2 7HL
- United Kingdom
The Astley Cooper School is an 11-18, co-educational, secondary school on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
For many years, Astley Cooper School was a smaller than average secondary school but its numbers are rising because of its considerably improved academic standards and good reputation. The school is proud to be part of the Government’s Priority School Building Programme. This huge investment in our school has seen our cohort numbers increase as well our profile in the community. The school has state of the art facilities including a leisure centre, swimming pool and new science laboratory/classrooms benefiting staff, students and our wider community for many years to come.
Extra curricular activities on offer to all students at the school include sport, art, music, drama, dance, residential and cultural trips and visits. In 2019 the school won the Inspiring Hertfordshire Award for Education in Employment.
Headteacher
Sam Orsborne, BA Hons; QTS; NPQH
Curriculum Aims
At Astley Cooper , we strive for the very best for all our students. We are committed to ensuring that when students leave, they have become successful, well rounded and confident individuals prepared to succeed in the modern world. We encourage personal growth, academic excellence and character development. We embrace diversity and support one another to create an inclusive environment that builds resilience and empowers every individual to reach their full potential to become responsible and respectful members of society. We achieve this by delivering the highest possible academic standards and offering students a wealth of opportunities within and beyond the national curriculum to develop their talents.
Our curriculum is created using our core values. We want to create:
Respect, we value difference. Treating everyone within our school community and beyond with respect. Being thoughtful and kind. Caring for our school environment
Responsibility, we own our outcomes. Doing our best. Fulfilling our potential. Positively impacting others
Resilience, we go again. Keep going when things are difficult. Learning from adversity. Seeing opportunities when facing challenges
The progressive curriculum we deliver at Astley Cooper ensures students have the skills, concepts and knowledge to progress successfully through the Key Stages. The curriculum is built to ensure the knowledge and skills learned in Key Stage 2 continue to be developed further through Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. Departments’ Schemes of Learning are carefully planned to ensure skills and techniques are developed each year and built on prior knowledge.
Astley Cooper describes itself as 'an ambitious school where students’ aspirations are rising.' It aims to create a calm, purposeful, friendly community where there is mutual respect between adults and students.
Ofsted
'Leaders have continued to raise aspirations for Astley Cooper pupils and for students in the sixth form' (Ofsted Good School, 2021)
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