Teacher of Sociology
Longsands Academy
Cambridgeshire
- £31,957 - £44,041 per year
- New
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 20 October 2024
Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic classroom practitioner to make a real difference. The role could be suitable for an experienced Teacher or an ECT. Longsands Academy has a strong track record of supporting and retaining ECTs by ensuring excellent mentoring; there are also many opportunities for involvement in wider school activities.
Longsands Academy is an 11-18 fully-inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and the surrounding area. The academy has around 1750 students including 250 in the Sixth Form. Longsands is proud of its inclusive and aspirational approach, whether that is in supporting students preparing for Oxbridge or working with students with special educational needs. We are ambitious for every child, no matter their background or circumstance, prior attainment or needs. The academy also has a strong track record of supporting of staff by ensuring excellent mentoring, a supportive culture and many opportunities for development and involvement in wider school activities.
The successful candidate will:
- Be an outstanding teacher of Sociology
- Have excellent subject knowledge and an understanding of new developments in Sociology related to the curriculum
- Provide dynamic and inspiring lessons
- Ensure students are at the centre of planning and teaching
- Focus on teaching and learning
- Provide learning with a focus on development
- Provide students with a full curriculum
- Engage and empower students with the skills to thrive as independent learners
- Contribute to department planning for learning at all key stages; this includes writing schemes of work or long-term plans and creating and sharing resources.
We can offer you:
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- A school recently rated Good by Ofsted and on an upward trajectory
- A professional working environment where teamwork is highly valued
- Admission criteria where preference is given to staffs’ children
- A school which invests heavily in the future
- A hugely talented and cohesive support staff.
Interested in applying?
If this is something you are interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our learning environment. If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
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About Longsands Academy
Longsands Academy, part of the Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and its surrounding area. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging, purposeful and supportive environment in which all of our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence and become responsible, well rounded citizens.
A Welcome from our Director for Secondary Education
Longsands is brimming with potential. The academy is at the heart of the community and has pledged to provide a rich, broad and varied education to all the pupils it serves. The academy and Trust are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture, influenced by Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion and Tom Bennett. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all, with an underpinning philosophy that ‘education for all should confer the benefits associated with education for the rich’ (Michael Young).
We have recently launched the Astrea behaviour curriculum, where behaviour expectations and routines are explicitly taught and deliberately practised. The creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.
Longsands Academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust and since joining the Trust in 2018 has developed a strong curriculum, good teaching and effective pupil support. If you are aligned to our mission and values, have a strong track record of improving young people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you. We fully recommend that you take the opportunity to make an informal visit prior to making your application to see the school for yourself.
With best wishes,
Richard Tutt
Director for Secondary Education
Values and vision
The curriculum, at Longsands Academy, is defined as ‘the knowledge, skills & values students are expected to learn, the units and lessons that are taught, the planned sequence of instruction, the resources used to support teaching and the assessments used to evaluate learning’.
At Longsands Academy, our curriculum is designed to fulfil our core purpose which aims to secure the best possible experience, learning and outcomes for each young person for whom we have responsibility. As such, we believe that students are entitled to be immersed in ‘the best that has been thought and said’ which is best achieved through a broad and balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum and a strong personal development programme. In addition, our provision is tailored so that all students, whatever their background and ability, can follow suitable pathways, from Years 7 through to Year 13, which maximise their chances to progress their learning and achieve academic excellence and success in public examinations, as well as promoting emotional wellbeing and mental health, enabling them to successfully access the next chapter of their lives.
Our commitment to promoting an ethos of learning for life and work throughout all aspects of the Academy as well as our provision of a wide range of extra-curricular and personal development opportunities aims to instil our core values in students, including care and respect for self and others, honesty, creativity, clear and open communication, high aspirations and the determination to fulfil them and strong relationships and shared goals achieved through teamwork.
Find out more here - Longsands Prospectus
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