Subject Leader - Modern Foreign Languages
Langley Grammar School
Slough
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main scale (London Fringe) & TLR 1a (£9,493)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 10 October 2024
Job overview
Subject Leader – Modern Foreign Languages
Main scale (London Fringe)
Full-time, Permanent
Required for January 2025
TLR 1a (£9,493)
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and inspirational Subject Leader for Modern Foreign Languages who can lead an experienced and committed subject team in a strong academic environment, where languages are highly valued. The successful candidate will be an experienced and skilled classroom practitioner with a track record of innovation and securing excellent outcomes. We offer both French and German from Years 7 to 13. Our newly appointed Assistant Subject Leader is a German specialist and therefore the ability of our new Subject Leader to teach A-Level French is highly desirable. Also, the ability to teach German to at least Key Stage 3 is essential. We welcome applications from current subject leaders/heads of departments looking for a career move, or from strong candidates seeking to progress to middle leadership. Candidates will be in a position to take up the post in January 2025. We can offer an exceptional working environment where staff, as well as students, thrive.
Langley Grammar School is a co-educational 11-18 selective school with academy status, located within easy reach of Langley station and the M4. We have approximately 1280 students, over 370 of whom are in the Sixth Form. The school is heavily over-subscribed and draws students from a wide geographical area and range of backgrounds. Alongside promoting excellent academic outcomes, our school ethos supports students to become confident and well rounded, independent and creative, responsible and caring. Our students are capable, hardworking and a delight to teach. We are a National Teaching School with a record of nationally recognised innovative practice, and an Apple Distinguished School in recognition of our leading-edge use of technology for learning. In recent years major building programmes have included the construction of excellent sports facilities, a distinctive Sixth Form Centre and new classrooms, workshops, laboratories, ICT suites and communal areas. The school was last inspected in 2021 by Ofsted, and was graded outstanding in all categories.
Information packs and application forms are available on request from the school, or can be downloaded from the school website at www.lgs.slough.sch.uk.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including online checks, checks with past employers, and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications should be returned by midday on Thursday 10 October 2024 to Mrs. Dionne Cheyne, Head’s PA at vacancies@lgs.slough.sch.uk.
Interviews will be held shortly thereafter. We reserve the right to interview promising candidates prior to the closing date.
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About Langley Grammar School
- Langley Grammar School
- Reddington Drive, Langley, Slough
- Berkshire
- SL3 7QS
- United Kingdom
Langley Grammar School is a co-educational state selective school operating as a single academy trust. We are committed to both our students' academic success and wider personal development, and provide a supportive and stimulating environment. Our students are a delight to work with: staff enjoy an excellent working environment and a range of additional benefits.
We can offer you:
- the opportunity to work with able and well-motivated young people
- excellent modern teaching facilities
- a welcoming, caring and stimulating environment with dedicated, innovative and supportive colleagues
- a range of wider benefits and excellent opportunities for your professional development
- a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and work-life balance
- excellent induction and CPD opportunities including strong support for trainee teachers and ECTs
We are:
- an Outstanding school, as judged by our most recent Ofsted inspection in November 2021
- a Leading Edge school working with SSAT; accredited as transformational under their framework for exceptional education
- recognised for our use of iPads for learning as an Apple Distinguished School
- a DfE accredited teaching school hub
- recognised as top-performing school in terms of GCSE and A Level outcomes
- consistently heavily oversubscribed for entry into Year 7 and the Sixth Form
Our Ethos...
We are privileged to work with able students who have the potential to be in significant positions of influence and leadership in the future.
- We encourage our students to discover their own talents, to be confident of their abilities and to follow their passions across academic subjects, in sports and the arts.
- We support our students in developing themselves as innovative, effective and independent learners with high-level skills, willing to think in new ways, solve new problems and create new opportunities for the future.
- We help our students build up a set of sound values so that they have the strength of character, moral integrity and resilience to deal with the challenges they will face, and the motivation and willingness to work hard to achieve their ambitions.
In addition to helping them gain excellent examination results we support our students to become young people who are:
- Confident and well-rounded
- Independent and creative
- Responsible and caring
Langley and the local area...
Langley forms the eastern part of the Borough of Slough and offers easy access to Windsor, south Buckinghamshire and west London. The school is 5 minutes from Junction 4 of the M4, with good transport links. Langley station is 10-15 mins walk, and offers frequent trains into London Paddington, and Elizabeth Line services.
Slough itself is a thriving multicultural town which has benefitted from considerable investment in recent years. In September 2017, Slough came top in a survey of the 25 best towns and cities to live and work in, beating Manchester and Cambridge in the top three. It is hailed as a "prime spot" for jobs, cost of living and worker satisfaction in research by jobs site Glassdoor.
For further information please visit our website at www.lgs.slough.sch.uk
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