Highfields School
Wolverhampton
Salary: Teachers' Pay Scales
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Start date: January 2025
Job overview
We wish to appoint an excellent teacher to join our successful and heavily oversubscribed 11 - 19 school. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, inspirational and enthusiastic teacher with a passion to enthuse students to enjoy and achieve in English.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly valued department with an experienced and supportive team. Applicants may be established practitioners wishing to develop their career in a large school or ECTs with the potential to be outstanding teachers.
As a department we offer:
1. Experienced and supportive staff
2. A creative and collaborative working environment
3. A high quality and very successful English curriculum which engages all students
4. Opportunity to teach from KS3 to A Level
5. High quality teaching and learning resources
6. Excellent student progress and results
As a school we offer:
1. A vibrant and exciting comprehensive school which is culturally and ethnically diverse
2. Excellent examination results
3. Outstanding student progress
4. Well behaved students who are eager to learn
5. Supportive parents who want the best for their children
6. A large Sixth Form
7. Modern and stimulating teaching facilities
Interviews:
Highfields School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
This post is subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks including an Enhanced DBS Check and 2 very good references.
About Highfields School
Highfields School is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational secondary school with sixth form in the West Midlands, serving students from the age of 11-18. The secondary school, situated in Wolverhampton, has approximately 1,700 students on record.
Highfields School opened in 1957 and converted to academy status in 2015.
Headteacher: Mr G Tate
Values and vision:
Highfields School wants all students to have access to a broad and balanced learning curriculum where they can gain the skills, knowledge, and experience to thrive and reach their full potential. The secondary school wants students to feel valued during their time learning and works to be a caring and open learning community, where individual talents are celebrated and nurtured. The school believes that students achieve best when happy and wants parents, staff, and students to all work together to achieve the best possible outcome for all. Students are encouraged to get involved with a wide range of extra-curricular activities to gain confidence, nurture talents, and discover new interests.
Ofsted:
“The school's curriculum meets students' needs and enables personalised choices, the impact of which is seen in increasing achievement and narrowing of gaps for specific groups of students. The developing curriculum at Key Stage 3 is supporting students to apply skills in a range of contexts and giving them experiences of real world situations.”
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