Teacher of French and Spanish

The School

“Hoe Valley School is an inspiring environment at the heart of its community where every student’s experience is personalised. Our students will learn to think independently, pursue their ambitions and achieve to their highest potential.”

Hoe Valley School is:

• An oversubscribed secondary school that opened in September 2015 to serve the local community of South Woking
• Rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in March 2024
• Delivering innovative and exciting lessons to years 7-13
• Committed to ensuring our students leave us with excellent academic outcomes, the skills to be ‘work-ready’ and the traits of excellent global citizens
• Following the national curriculum, where Maths and English are taught every day
• A Google School with ICT fully embedded in all curriculum areas
• Growing its new STEAM focussed academic Sixth Form, which opened in September 2023
• Committed to learning which is relevant with links to the ‘real world’ of business, higher education and the local community
• In a state of the art new School completed in September 2018 on Egley Road, Woking
• Committed to supporting our staff to have a good work / life balance by offering longer school holidays, bespoke CPD programmes, minimising paperwork and meetings and ultimately by trusting our staff to deliver excellent outcomes 

The Role                                           

Parlez-vous français? ¿Habla español? 

This is a very exciting opportunity for a passionate, talented and rigorous practitioner to join our dedicated languages Faculty as we launch our full suite of Languages A Levels within our expanding Sixth Form provision.  French and Spanish are very popular choices at GCSE and students value and enjoy their Language lessons at HVS. The school has recently achieved International Schools status.

The successful candidate will be a specialist in French and able to teach this to KS5.  They should be able to teach Spanish to at least Key Stage 3, and will have the exciting and unique opportunity to shape a KS3, KS4 and KS5 curriculum which is bespoke, challenging and fit for the needs of 21st century life. 

If you are committed to inspiring students on their linguistic journey, so that they become confident, effective, global communicators, we want you. 

With a personalised and creative curriculum, supportive colleagues, and eager students, this is your opportunity to make a real difference.  

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES (in addition to Teachers’ Standards)

• To teach French to KS5/A-level and Spanish within the age range of 11-16. 
• To contribute to the design of the curriculum to ensure it is exciting, relevant, challenging and personalised
• To ensure all students are making good or outstanding progress and that teaching and learning is of a high standard
• To contribute to CPD across the School and share best practice via coaching, sharing planning and resources, and following an 'open door' teaching policy.
• To create a stimulating, organised, interactive and informative learning environment that encourages each child to achieve its potential
• To deploy other adults effectively within the classroom, involving them, where appropriate, in the planning and management of student learning

Progress and Attainment

• To ensure assessment, feedback and monitoring is SMART, accurate and clearly moves students' learning on across all teachers within the faculty
• To standardise marking with colleagues both within the School and with partner schools
• To rigorously analyse student data to inform planning and intervention programmes
• To lead and attend internal and external meetings as required
• To feedback to students and parents/carers in line with the School policy

Behaviour and Safety

• To collaborate closely with parents to ensure that they are aware of their child's progress, engaged in their development and in supporting them in their vision for the future
• To ensure the absolute safety of all students on and off site
• To model and enforce excellent standards of behaviour within and beyond the faculty
• To monitor students achievement, attendance, uniform, punctuality and behaviour and to respond promptly to issues in line with the school’s policies
• To participate in the School’s pastoral system as required

School Improvement

• To support the School’s marketing and recruitment plan through attending events, contributing to marketing materials and via high quality interactions with feeder primary schools
• To embody the School’s values both on and off site
• To coach and mentor colleagues as appropriate
• To take on any other duties as reasonably required by the Senior Leadership Team.

The above list is not exhaustive and maybe subject to amendment in due course in discussion with the relevant employee.

Applications are considered as they are received; we reserve the right to make an appointment prior to the closing date.

Only fully completed School application forms received by the stated deadline will be accepted as valid applications. CV's will not be accepted as applications. No recruitment agencies.