Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages

There could not be a more exciting time to join the St Mark's family. Outcomes at the Academy at Key Stage 4 are in the top 9% of all schools nationally with a Progress 8 Score of +0.66 in 2023. At Key Stage 5, an impressive 60% of all A Levels were awarded A*-B grades with 30% of students securing a place at a Russell Group University.

Do you have the highest expectations for every member of the school community and believe in transformational education for all, irrespective of starting points and background?

Are you able to inspire the next generation of linguists, with your inspirational vision for school improvement, underpinned by the school’s inclusive Christian ethos and values, Love, Hope and Trust?

Are you passionate about high-quality teaching and learning and a life changing quality of education?

Do you have the experience, skills, insights and determination to celebrate and champion the languages spoken within this beautifully diverse community.

If you can answer yes to these four questions, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking to recruit an outstanding Teacher of MFL for a full-time post in a thriving department, to commence September 2024. The Modern Languages Department at St Mark’s is a dynamic, vibrant, and enthusiastic team of dedicated teachers who are committed to delivering consistently outstanding lessons to all our students. All members of the Department are language specialists who teach across the age and ability range and overall, the department always sets high standards across lessons. What is more, there is a strong team spirit within the department and a culture of sharing ideas and team-planning. The MFL department strives to ensure that our curriculum is challenging and inspiring for all students, to push them academically and we aim also to ensure that Teaching and Learning is rooted in both the Science of Learning and Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction. We offer weekly after school Korean and Portuguese classes for native and non-native learners. The department also offers several educational day trips as well as residential trips. Outcomes within the department are in the top 10% of all schools in the country for Progress 8.

If you have the skills and enthusiasm to make a significant contribution to our inclusive Christian community, then we would love to hear from you.

Visits are warmly welcomed and can be arranged by email to the HR department.

St Mark's were inspected by Ofsted in March 2023. The Academy performed exceptionally well in all areas, with particular reference made to expert curriculum design; transformational teaching and learning underpinned by the highest expectations; the extra-curricular offer and staff and pupil wellbeing. The report states, “there is enough evidence of improved performance to suggest that the school could be judged outstanding if we were to carry out a graded (section 5) inspection now.”

Successful candidates will transform their practice through our instructional coaching offer. As one of 10 nationally selected Steplab Hub Schools, staff benefit from this expertly led programme underpinned by cutting-edge research into cognitive science.

St Mark’s Church of England Academy is part of Anthem Schools Trust, a multi-academy trust serving over 8,000 children and young people in 16 schools across the East Midlands, London and the Thames Valley.

Full details of the responsibilities can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification for this post. Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted as received and therefore early application is strongly advised. Anthem Trust remains the right to close or extend this advert at any time.