Dynamic, high achieving graduate with excellent communication skills to join a successful and innovative team, with teaching responsibility across the full range of age and ability. Tailored personal development supported with whole College Professional learning. An outstanding opportunity to contribute to our strong co-curricular program through our College community of Houses and develop your teaching skills in preparation for future roles. With a strong track record of results, excellent partnerships with feeder primaries and progression to university which Ofsted declare to be “impressive”, our College is first choice for students in Bradford.
Role Profile
At St Bede’s and St Joseph’s we teach students to think critically and logically in mathematics lessons. The aim of this is to prepare students with the mathematical competency that will allow our students to thrive in any community and in any future career.
Mathematics is a key and exciting subject area within the College where all mathematics colleagues work hard on developing good attitudes towards mathematics which is paying dividends across every subject in the College. Developing confident, resilient mathematicians with skills for life begins in Year 7 and is further developed in our student centred 5-year curriculum.
In KS3, the three-year curriculum is designed so that all students are learning the same topic at the same time. Teachers understand ways to progress through a topic by delving deeper, making links with other areas of mathematics and by providing challenge through opportunities to reason and problem solve.
Students are set from Year 9 and continue to be set through all other year groups. Class sizes vary but characteristically top sets are larger and classes reduce in size, allowing lower sets with smaller numbers. Classes are organised into half-year groups with two top sets in each year.
The KS4 two-year schemes of work broadly follow the Edexcel GCSE mathematics GCSE (9–1) – 1MA1 specification and build on students' prior learning from KS3. Students will follow either the foundation or higher scheme of work depending on prior assessments as well as teacher judgement based on classwork and independent learning. Problem-solving is at the heart of the new curriculum and opportunities to develop problem solving and reasoning skills in mathematics are embedded within each unit of work.
Mathematics is a very popular subject at Advanced level with very good and improving results. Further Maths is also taught successfully. We have a strong subject team who are committed to working together, planning and preparing resources to share workload and to develop fun and creative lessons. Staff prepare personalised lessons to meet the needs of every student in their class.
For the A Level course, there are four classes; two in Year 12 and two in Year 13, with a number of students studying Further Maths in each year group. Both GCSE and A Level courses follow the Edexcel specifications.
Each of our teaching rooms contains an interactive whiteboard. We subscribe annually to Mathswatch and use a range of other online resources. The mathematics suite is housed in one area on each site, promoting collaborative teaching. We also have a designated Division manager who provides the team with admin support.
This role requires you to be:
* an outstanding and caring teacher of all students, teaching with expertise and enthusiasm, offering support to all and contributing to the College’s House system
* supportive of the Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team in implementing all aspects of College policy in order to maintain the aims and ethos of the College
* a caring, effective, engaged, confident, creative and reflective practitioner, as set out in the Professional Teacher Standards
* supportive of the Catholic ethos of the College with high standards of professional conduct at all times
Salary & Terms
Location
St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College
Bradford
West Yorkshire
We are committed to equality of opportunity.
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