Thank you for your interest in the role of Geography Teacher on a fixed term contract at Five Acres High School. We are looking for a committed individual who is passionate about education and invested in supporting our students to be as successful as possible. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful forward-looking school set in a dynamic community. Our world class school quality mark and school of character kitemark plus show this. This is a school that will give you an opportunity to demonstrate you are remarkable.
Five Acres High School is one of the top 3.5% of schools nationally for progress and sits within the top 100 schools nationally in The Fairer Index list. It is also a designated lead setting for the RISE Attendance and Behaviour Support Programme. This is a school that will give you an opportunity to demonstrate you are remarkable and give you the best chance of success. Our values are ambition, confidence, creativity, determination and respect; we pride ourselves on ensuring students work towards our mission which is to encourage students to ‘Aim High, Work Hard and Be Kind’.
As a Geography Teacher your main responsibilities will be;
• Teaching and supporting all designated classes in the subject area
• Implementing and delivering an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
• Monitoring and supporting the overall progress and development of students as a Teacher/Tutor.
• Facilitating and encouraging a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
• Contributing to raising standards of student attainment.
• Sharing and supporting the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
Please review the full job description to see a list of other responsibilities.
Why join Five Acres High School and Greenshaw Learning Trust?
At Five Acres High School, we have built our ethos on a strong set of core values which underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to give students at Five Acres a better chance of success than if they attended any other school in the country.
Ambition, excellence and pride run through all aspects of school life.
Our school maintains high expectations, with a strong focus on staff development and strong behavioural expectations and routines embedded within the school. This allows teachers to focus on planning and delivering excellent lessons which enable all students to make progress and feel successful. Our school is focused on enabling students to develop into well-rounded young adults who are instilled with the school’s core values of ambition, determination, respect, creativity and confidence. We are able to achieve this through our Character Education programme as well as our embedded practices such as our reading programme and knowledge rich curriculum.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job’s portal.
We offer our staff a range of benefits including:
• Professional development and career progression
• Generous pension scheme
• Blue Light Card
• Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym Discounts
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Candidates will be interviewed by colleagues trained in safer recruitment.