Start date: 1 September 2025
King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy
New Street
Longbridge
Birmingham
B45 0EU
Telephone number: 0121 464 9901
Contact email: e.wills@bwa.kevibham.org
Contract type: Permanent
“Pupils and staff enjoy belonging to a vibrant school community where caring, respectful relationships are the norm” – Ofsted (January 2024)
This is an incredibly exciting time to join our dynamic team and make a real impact! Due to rapid improvement and increasing pupil numbers, we are recruiting for multiple roles across key subjects to help drive excellence and add capacity into our core areas of learning from 1 September 2025.
We are welcoming applications for the post of Teacher of English at King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy, an academy recently graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in all four areas in January 2024. We are seeking a highly effective, committed and passionate practitioner to teach English across Key Stages 3 and 4. You will have a strong knowledge of the English curriculum, have excellent subject knowledge and be able to inspire and motivate pupils through your exceptional teaching practice. You will be able to demonstrate being bold in your teaching and learning to ensure the needs of all learners are met. You will be ambitious in ensuring levels of achievement continue to improve year-on-year. You will be collaborative in identifying opportunities to work with other experienced practitioners to secure positive outcomes for our pupils. Most importantly, you will be joining a small, kind and powerful community of senior leadership, teaching and support staff where “staff feel valued and appreciate how their workload and wellbeing are considered by leaders at all levels” as recently noted in our Ofsted inspection report.
King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy is a dynamic and forward-thinking school, recently recognised as the most improved school in the West Midlands and the fifth most-improved school in the country by the Fairer Schools Index (January 2025). We are also incredibly proud to be the first Birmingham City Academy School in conjunction with Birmingham City Football Club, fostering a unique and inspiring environment for our pupils.
We are looking forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our vibrant community.
Who will you be joining?
King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy is located in South West Birmingham. The academy is rapidly improving and continuing to benefit from having joined King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham which has led to investment across the academy, including the availability of cutting-edge technology in each classroom. The successful candidate will benefit from a wide range of professional development opportunities encompassing the potential to experience schools across the foundation and to pursue professional qualifications. There will be opportunities to collaborate with other schools and to benefit from their expertise and resources.
Our expectations and aspirations
King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy has the highest aspirations and expectations for all members of its community. As a member of staff, you will be valued, challenged and supported in making a difference to the lives of our young people. We expect the same of our pupils. We demand courtesy, endeavour and resilience from all of our pupils and the support of their parents and carers.
We are exceptionally proud of our academy and our young people and would encourage interested applicants to come and spend some time with the leadership team to understand our shared vision, have a look around and experience what life is like as part of our community.
About the Academy Trust
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”.
How to apply
A full job description and an application pack for this post here or alternatively, an application pack can also be obtained from:
Address: King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy, New Street, Frankley, B45 0EU
Email: e.wills@bwa.kevibham.org
Telephone No. 0121 464 9901
To arrange a visit to the academy, please contact Miss E Wills, Head’s PA, on 0121 464 9901.
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