We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic Teacher of Science to join our popular and successful department that delivers an engaging and exciting KS3 and KS4 curriculum. The Science team embodies our values and ethos, they ensure that teaching and learning practices are research led, they provide engaging content through explicit instruction, and ensure that the most recent research on cognitive science is at the forefront of their teaching practices.
Blaise High School is a disruption free environment. This ensures that teachers can teach and students can learn every second of every lesson, day by day. Teachers at Blaise High School are the experts in the room; our school is set up to ensure that teachers can teach in an environment in which they are truly able to make a difference. We prioritise knowledge, delivering a knowledge rich curriculum that is carefully selected based on knowledge that students will study at University.
We believe in direct instruction, and understand that the quickest way for children to learn something is to be told it. We work closely with The Greenshaw Learning Trust in the design and development of our curriculum. We teach in a traditional fashion; hard work and effort are emphasised and we have extremely high expectations of our children every minute of every day.
Our lessons, and units of work, are structured in line with cognitive science, and we lean heavily on Rosenshine’s principles, and the Teach Like a Champion series. We are genuinely inclusive, and we expect that all children will access every aspect of our school day. Our school is a fantastic place to work for those who are committed to the eradication of the disadvantage cycle.
We are committed to our values of Aspiration, Integrity and Pride. This means we expect the very best outcomes for all our students and we expect that all of our students will work exceptionally hard every day. Our students show their pride in our incredibly high standards in uniform, the quality and quantity of work that we expect of our students, and our focus on manners in our interactions with children. We are a school rich in diversity and we celebrate this daily. All of us believe that all of us can be successful no matter our background or starting point. We work together as a teaching team to ensure we are consistently able to improve our practice, as a school to celebrate and have fun together and as an entire community to be sure all of our students are ready to be successful every day. All teachers have access to a weekly professional development session, alongside a programme of personalised development via our 1:1 coaching sessions. Blaise High School is privileged to be part of the Greenshaw Learning Trust. Everything that we do is focussed on improving outcomes, character and life chances for our children. We firmly believe that our children deserve the same quality of education as those children who attend the country’s most expensive fee paying schools.
We are looking for colleagues who share our commitment to the breaking down of the disadvantage cycle. At Blaise High School we work with a shared moral purpose; that is to close the attainment gap for disadvantaged children and take the school into the top 1% of all schools in the country for progress made. Our school is staffed by people who feel morally driven by teaching, who want to genuinely break the cycle of disadvantage. We recognise that this comes with challenges, however we relish these challenges, work together to overcome them and through our fun and togetherness programme, enjoy working whilst we do this.