Salary:
Mainscale / UPS
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Summer or Autumn 2025
Apply by:
27 January 2025
Job Overview
We are seeking to appoint a full time, permanent teacher of Drama with effect from 22 April or 1 September 2025. Applications are welcome from experienced teachers, ECTs, and former teachers returning to teaching. This is an exceptional opportunity for an excellent teacher to join a strong and successful faculty.
Oathall is an ambitious and forward thinking 11-16 community college with 1300 students. We are strategic partners in a local Teaching School Alliance as well as a federation with 3 other local secondary schools. The school is characterised by our high expectations and an absolute commitment to raising standards and achievement for all. We are committed to Continuing Professional Learning through a strong training programme.
Drama operates within the Performance Faculty along with Dance, Music and Physical Education. The subject is a popular option at GCSE and the subject is taught in specialist accommodation. Standards are extremely high and students achieve excellent results year on year. This is an exciting opportunity for a teacher wanting to provide students with performance opportunities beyond lessons.
Oathall Community College and West Sussex County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service check along with other relevant employment checks, including satisfactory references.
Applications should be completed using a teacher application form along with our recruitment monitoring form (available on our website) and letter of application (no more than two sides of A4). Please email the documents to
jobs@oathall.org
or post to Mrs Sara Atkin no later than 9am on Monday 27 January 2025.
Suitable candidates may be invited to interview prior to the closing date, and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
About Oathall Community College
* Address: Appledore Gardens, Lindfield
* West Sussex
* RH16 2AQ
* United Kingdom
+44 1444 414001
"Oathall is a large, happy school community" Ofsted inspection 2023
Oathall is a mixed comprehensive secondary school for students aged between 11 and 16. We are situated on the boundaries of the town of Haywards Heath and the village of Lindfield in the heart of Mid-Sussex. The college opened in 1938 and has a full spectrum of specialist accommodation and facilities including well-equipped classrooms, a music centre, library, drama & dance studios, a fitness gym and a large sports hall. Outside we have large playing fields used for sport, a floodlit full-size 3G artificial turf pitch and a five acre farm. In 2022, we were told that Oathall was a confirmed project under the DFE school rebuilding programme. We anticipate the project will commence in around 2026-2027.
Our teaching and learning aim is simply to ensure the best possible progress and high attainment for every student. We offer a broad, balanced curriculum based on our knowledge of our students that challenges and motivates students to achieve their best. Academic and vocational success is complemented by an extensive extra curricular programme. Oathall prides itself on its excellent pastoral organisation and inclusion policy which is recognised as an example of best practice. Pastoral care is based around a year group structure. We also operate a traditional house system, consisting of four houses, Discovery, Endeavour, Pioneer and Voyager.
Oathall works in a spirit of co-operation and industry with a deep respect for high standards of attitude and attainment. This, together with an excellent curriculum and friendly atmosphere, leads to the education of a first-rate set of well-adjusted and highly qualified young people. The strong and effective teaching staff, excellent resources and atmosphere of hard work ensure that Oathall children have the highest possible quality of learning.
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