Key Stage 3 RE, Philosophy and Ethics teacher
Required from: September 2024
School: Ipsley C of E Middle School
Salary: Main Scale (potential for a TLR with responsibility for whole School Collective Worship) Full time (part time 0.8 considered)
Ipsley C of E Middle School is seeking an enthusiastic and engaging practitioner to teach Religious Education, Philosophy and Ethics in KS3 and lead on Collective Worship across the whole school. This role involves teaching in Key Stage 3 (Year 7 and 8) and offers a middle leadership responsibility.
By joining us at Ipsley, you will become part of a team which prides itself on ensuring that all can become the best versions of themselves through being ambitious, courageous and kind. Lived Christian values make the school a warm and welcoming place to learn and work. Ipsley is oversubscribed and has worked hard to ensure outcomes are in line with national averages. We offer generous non-contact time and a wonderful team ethos.
Having recently been inspected under the new SIAMS framework, we are ‘a highly effective Church school’ where ‘adults and pupils can thrive’. This post is designed to continue and build on the excellent work we do as a Church school by further developing the RE curriculum to include philosophy and ethics. This will give the successful candidate the exciting opportunity to create a philosophy and ethics curriculum to complement our excellent RE curriculum.
Collective Worship at Ipsley is: ‘Thoroughly and thoughtfully planned... enabling a meaningful understanding and experience of Christian beliefs and practices. Inspiring and inclusive, it recognises the range of differing personal beliefs within the school’ The successful candidate will lead the Collective Worship programme for the whole school, supporting staff with its delivery and leading our enthusiastic Collective Worship pupil leadership group.
Close links with the Worcester Diocese ensure the successful candidate will be well supported, with access to high quality and regular CPD.
Central Region Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and completion of an Enhanced DBS will be required.