AddressEnglish Teacher, Outwood Grange Academy
Salary : £30,000 - £46,525 PA (MPS1 - UPR3)
Additional Benefits
- £25 per hour for holiday / weekend revision sessions - max £125 per day (voluntary)
- Opportunities to offer 1:1 virtual tuition after school and weekends paid at £32.61 per hour
- 3 extra days holiday per year for all teaching staff
- Minimum 2 hour weekly CPD session for all teaching staff plus other CPD opportunities
Job type : Full Time or Part-Time considered. Permanent post.
Start date : Easter or September 2024
Apply by : 18 December 2023
Outwood Grange Academy is looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and inspiring classroom practitioner with a real passion for English. We offer an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and motivated team. An excellent knowledge and understanding of the subject is essential. You must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of ‘students first’. Applications are invited from both newly qualified and experienced professionals.
The English Department at Outwood Grange is a large, successful team made up of 20 teachers and three one-to-one tutors. The department is friendly and supportive, and staff in the team put the attainment of students at the heart of their discussions and all they do. There is a combination of some very experienced teachers and a number of ECTs, and those who are new to the profession are nurtured by a mentor from within the team. Whilst there are a range of career opportunities within the school and the trust, the English Department at Outwood Grange Academy is also a fantastic place to start your career, and we are excited about helping staff to flourish in the classroom.
We have a large allocation of classrooms, with full-time staff teaching entirely or almost entirely in one room. Classrooms have video projectors, large television screens and visualisers, which are housed upon bespoke lecterns to enable staff to run the room effectively when presenting from the front. The library is also part of the English Department, not only in a physical sense but also because we believe that reading is at the centre of what we do.
Because of our belief in the vital importance of reading, the department has developed a KS3 curriculum where learning branches from a range of engaging and culturally interesting texts. Students will study three plays by William Shakespeare over years 7 to 9, including a history, tragedy and comedy, in order to present them with an ambitious curriculum that prepares them for both GCSE and A Level study. Contemporary texts and their reception are reviewed yearly in order to evaluate them for relevance and rigour. Children have a weekly ‘Immersive Read’ lesson, and the team have shared the responsibility - and pleasure - of choosing the texts for this; they range from versions of Dracula to the more recent The House with Chicken Legs .
There is a strong whole-school literacy strategy which aims to ensure that all students can gain the educational and personal benefits of reading. This includes reading in form time, Accelerated Reader and a variety of reading interventions for readers who are not yet proficient. The specialist literacy teaching assistants use the Ruth Miskin phonics programme to support emergent readers.
As in all OGAT secondary academies, the department prepares students for Eduqas GCSE English Language and English Literature qualifications. The programme of study is fully resourced with high-quality materials produced by staff across the trust who know this specification well. We aim to make all our teachers ‘experts’ in preparing students for GCSE examinations, using our thorough and systematic methods devised over many years. We have the benefit of support from the trust’s team of expert English directors, who provide support, materials, advice, coaching and who model and team-teach in lessons alongside us to develop our expertise. As an indication of our success, each year our students gain, on average, a progress score of around +0.5.
The academy has a sixth form and the English department prepares students for A level English Language (AQA), A level English Literature (AQA B) and Media Studies (Eduqas).
If you are interested in joining this team, please contact Rupert Burgess, Regional Director of English via email (r.burgess@outwood.com) who would be pleased to tell you more and we would be delighted to welcome you on a visit if you would like to see us in person.
If you share our vision, then why not join our family?
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This is a permanent Outwood Grange Academy post. Subject to curriculum demand, the successful applicant may be required to work for a short time in a neighbouring Outwood Academy until a suitable vacancy arises at Outwood Grange Academy.
About Us
We are an Outstanding rated, 11-18 academy based in the cathedral city of Wakefield, near Leeds from where the successful Outwood Grange Family was born; a Trust that has supported 41 schools across phases in the North of England.
We have nurtured a school community that is welcoming and friendly, where students and staff can make excellent progress together, with a focus on creating a culture of success, a positive climate for learning, and increased attainment, achievement and social and emotional development.
We believe our success speaks for itself as we are well above the national average for the number of students achieving at a Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs. We are also proud to have been awarded Gold Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award.
The Outwood Family of Schools pride ourselves on fully supporting colleagues within the Family both professionally and personally.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
As a founding Trust of the National Institute of Education (NIoT), we will actively invest in your future through working closely with the Outwood Institute of Education and NIoT to offer access to a wide range of CPD opportunities, with all teaching staff receiving a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
We also offer a generous employment package with a whole host of staff benefits, including family friendly policies, enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period, funded CPD for qualifications up to and including Masters level plus other exclusive benefits including a partnership with car leasing company, Synergy.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - WHAT DO WE OFFER AS AN EMPLOYER?
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues by funding an extensive range of accredited training courses and apprenticeship opportunities up to Masters level. We also offer:
- Your starting salary plus annual inflation linked increases. The starting salary will be dependent on experience.
- We follow the principles of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
- You will be automatically enrolled into the generous Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Pay progression happens automatically on the anniversary of the target period appropriate to your role
- Flexible family friendly policies from day one
- We have our own Workload Charter and are committed to ensuring that Teachers’ workloads are manageable
- All teachers receive an allotted minimum of two hours CPD each week
- Access to centralised resources to support with lesson planning and reducing workload
- Comprehensive induction and training process
- Nursery voucher scheme
- Free flu vaccinations
- Free onsite parking
- Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
- Access to various discount sites
- Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
- Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
- Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
- Legal guidance
- Financial guidance and debt counselling
- Child and dependent care support and advice Support for managers
We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing policy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies.
