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SalaryClosing date:31/01/2024 at 12:00
Job Start Date:September 2024
Contract/Hours:Permanent , Full-time
Key Stage:KS3/KS4
Salary Type:MPR / UPR
Salary Details:MPR/UPR - depending on experience
Hours of Work:Full-time
Location of Role:Crestwood Community School - Shakespeare Rd and Cherbourg Rd Campuses
Contact e-mail address:hr@crestwood.hants.sch.uk
Crestwood Community School is one school, with two campuses serving central Eastleigh. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and ambitious person as a Teacher of ICT, Computer Science and/or Business Studies to start in September 2024. ICT, Computing and Business Studies sits within the Technology Faculty. The Faculty pride themselves on having an innovative and forward thinking curriculum. Practical work is at the heart of everything and the Faculty’s vision centres on giving students the skills and experiences they need so that they can be successful in the wider world beyond school.
ICT is taught throughout all year groups at Crestwood. At Key Stage 3, we offer students project based activities which make up part of the National Curriculum Computing strategy. This covers a wide and varied breadth of topics including Computational Thinking, Use of Data, Creative, E-Safety and the Use of Technology in Wider Society. At Key Stage 4, students can choose GCSE Computer Science or BTEC Creative Media Production. Students who choose not to take up an ICT option subject undertake Core ICT as part of their development of vital skills for life and for the workplace.
Within the faculty we also offer BTEC Enterprise (Business). This is a popular course which enables learners to develop entrepreneurial skills to start and run a business or social enterprise through a practical and skills-based approach to learning.
The faculty is incredibly well resourced across both campuses with specialist ICT suites and up to date Software. The school has developed extensively its use of the Google Suite, both as a platform for e-learning and an effective means of communication and storing, assigning and submitting work.
In ICT & Computing at Key Stage 3, students will have 75 minutes of ICT time every fortnight. They undertake a wide range of topics within the National Curriculum Computing Strategy, including Computational Thinking, Using Data, Creative Graphic Design Web Design, E-Safety, Cyber Security and the Use of ICT in Society and the Wider World. Topics are often project based to provide a real-world feel. At Key Stage 4, students get the opportunity to take GCSE Computer Science or BTEC Creative Media Production as an option subject. However, within our ethos to constantly find the most innovative and dynamic curriculum mix, we are always looking at the merits of new courses.
Business Studies is a massively popular option subject at Key Stage 4, with students able to opt for the BTEC Tech Award in Enterprise. In Design & Technology, students have 75 minutes of subject time a week at Key Stage 3 and complete subject rotations in the specialisms: Resistant Materials, Textiles, Food and Graphics. At Key Stage 4, they can opt for GCSE Design & Technology or GCSE Food and Nutrition.
As a school we take staff well being seriously. We offer staff the following:
- wellbeing weeks, with no commitments scheduled after school
- free lunch every day
- free tea and coffee
- half termly cooked breakfasts
- accrued inset days, taken as twilights, giving staff an additional 4 days off a year
- One wellbeing day per year (during term-time), to be taken at their chosen time (after a qualifying period)
- weekly thank you bulletin
- birthday cards
- heads discretionary leaves of absence for family events
- acts of random kindness
- access to mental health first aiders
We are looking for someone who can play an active role in contributing to the already high standards within the team. You will be supported by a passionate and hands-on faculty leadership team; as well as experienced and dedicated teachers within that team.
Your application should comprise a completed Hampshire teaching application form, and a letter in which you should outline your experience to date, the reasons for your interest in the post and your suitability for it. Please include a paragraph on your philosophy of teaching ICT and Computer Science and/or Business Studies and what you could bring to Crestwood Community School. Email completed applications to hr@crestwood.hants.sch.ukby 12pm on the closing date.
Safer Recruitment
Crestwood Community School and Hampshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
