What skills and experience we're looking for
We are now looking to appoint an excellent Teacher of Law who is passionate about their subject area and able toinspire all students to reach their full potential, to join our successful team.
1. Qualified teacher status
2. ECT status or currently working towards ECT status
3. Graduate
4. PGCE or equivalent teaching qualification
(or working towards)
EXPERIENCE
1. Secondary teaching or secondary teaching practice experience
2. To have been a tutor or supported the work of a tutor
3. To have taught the subject at KS5 across whole ability range
KNOWLEDGE
1. Ability to use the principles of assessment to promote learning
2. An understanding of how data can be used to enable all students to achieve their fullest potential
3. Understand how to improve student achievement through well-structured, inspiring teaching, monitoring attainment, target setting and mentoring students.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
1. Ability to plan a scheme of work linked to programmes of study
2. Good oral and written skills
3. Be equally literate and numerate, including in the use of ICT
4. Ability to employ and contribute to the development of a range of teaching and learning styles.
5. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
6. Ability to manage student behaviour firmly, effectively, positively, commanding respect from students, staff and parents.
7. Willingness to contribute to our wide extra-curricularenrichment programme.
ATTRIBUTES
1. Ambitious for students, school, colleagues and self
2. Committed, open and honest with high standards and expectations of self and others
3. Be committed to equal opportunities and success for everyone in a high achieving school
4. Have a sense of proportion and humour
5. Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students
What the school offers its staff
The post offers excellent working conditions and a comprehensive development programme.
Further details about the role
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of “making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.
Our Academy Trust currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and six non selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham (“the Academy Trust”) was established in 2017 and is made up of the academies outlined above. The academies receive back office central support services including governance, from the Foundation Office (a central support services function), with several staff being seconded from the Foundation to deliver support services to the Academy Trust and the academies themselves.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls offers an excellent academic education within a happy and
purposeful community. High quality teaching and valuing each individual are central to our exciting
approach to pre and post-sixteen study.
All students are encouraged to realise their fullest potential, to live and work in harmony with others and to be ambitious for their futures. Students are supported in their work by a team of highly professional and caring staff.
Student outcomes are significantly above national figures, but this is not what makes us most proud. Our school is a community, and whilst we value academic success, this is not the only objective of our school. We pride ourselves in growing good citizens, we help to develop girls who have the knowledge, skills and the desire to make a difference to the world in which they live. The world today is changing rapidly and our aim is that all students will leave as flexible, positive and assured young people. Past students provide fine examples of this by excelling in a wide range of careers and interests.
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls, is a happy, active place; students work hard and have fun. The facilities are excellent, the opportunities on offer are exciting, but it is the people who make it special. We hope that you will want to be one of those people.
We are now looking to appoint an excellent Teacher of Law who is passionate about their subject area and able toinspire all students to reach their full potential, to join our successful team.
Commitment to safeguarding
King Edward VI Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Shortlisted candidates will have online checks undertaken before interview. Successful applicants be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is a criminal offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. KEVI is committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.