Teacher Of Humanities - History

Introduction:

Queen Ethelburga’s is set in more than 220 acres of beautiful North Yorkshire countryside, on the Thorpe Underwood Estate. Staff work as one team – whether they are directly teaching or supporting students as part of the school and pastoral teams, or as part of our estates team making sure that the campus works as it should – to create a vibrant learning and living environment in which every student can thrive. We aspire to excellence, have high expectations of ourselves and others, and take pride in everything we do. We aim to nurture resilient, confident, and independent lifelong learners. The Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate Standard is ‘To be the best that I can with the gifts that I have’.

Job purpose

To provide outstanding teaching, maintaining the high standards of the Collegiate. This job description is written at a specific time and is subject to change as the demands of the Collegiate and the role develops. The role requires flexibility and adaptability and the employees of the Collegiate need to be aware that they may be asked to perform tasks and be given responsibilities not detailed in this job description. We are particularly welcoming Early careers professionals. Your duties and responsibilities are as follows below.

The Humanities Department

The Humanities department comprises of Geography and History and has a team of 9 full and part time teaching staff. The department is friendly, supportive and innovative and enjoys considerable success in examinations at GCSE and A level. The department is based on the first floor of a separate building and has 5 specialist teaching rooms. Each classroom is equipped with a white board, TV and computer monitor. Teaching staff use Surface Pros to cast to the TV screen. The KS3 History curriculum focuses on developing the skills required for Edexcel GCSE and introduces content to support this. The units studied at GCSE are Medicine in Britain, Henry VIII & Ministers 1509-40, Superpower relations and Cold War & USA 1954-75. At A level, we study the OCR specification specialising in the Later Tudors, Democracy & Dictatorship in Germany and Civil Rights in the USA. The department is well resourced and is highly regarded in terms of teaching, learning and pupil feedback/support.

The department works very closely together, with most staff teaching both geography and History at KS3. All pupils study both Humanities in Year 7 and Year 8 and then opt in Year 9, although a large number continue with both subjects. Uptake at GCSE and A level continues to be positive. Lesson resources are stored centrally and every teacher contributes, thereby encouraging the sharing of best practice and providing a consistent experience for all pupils.

Each year group has a curriculum related visit/field trip and all members of Humanities are involved in planning and participation in these department events.

Expectations

There are 30 x 55min lessons per week of which 22 are timetabled. Staff contribute to duties and run an after-school activity. Supervision of an evening prep session until 6pm is required on one evening each week. Support for Collegiate events, boarding activities, and Open Days is also required (totaling 24 hours per year). There is no Saturday morning school and we teach for 34 weeks of the academic year.

Your duties and responsibilities are as follows:

Support for pupils

• Utilise specialist skills, training and experience to support pupils
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils within the classroom and the school environment
• Support pupils consistently, recognising and responding to their individual needs
• Encourage pupils to interact and work co-operatively with others, and engage all pupils in activities
• Promote good behaviour and management of relationships with peers and staff
• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement
• Provide formative oral and written assessments through marking, prep and other forms of feedback, using this to inform
• Keep records of progress in the form of formal assessments and reports on the development, progress and attainment of students, as individuals and as groups of pupils to line managers and parents

Teaching

• Contribute to the teaching in the department across the full age and ability range in History (KS5 History desirable but not a requirement), with a willingness to teach KS3 Geography
• Hold a record of outstanding examination results
• Be a highly motivated and proficient classroom teacher
• Demonstrate a commitment to high standards of teaching and learning
• Offer all pupils an innovative and effective learning experience

Support for the Curriculum

• Prepare schemes of work and lesson plans that ensure the needs of all pupils are met
• Identify appropriate attainment and/or achievement targets, differentiating teaching as required
• Monitor pupil standards and achievement against targets, ensuring that relevant individual and whole school attainment / achievement targets are met
• Monitor planning, curriculum coverage and learning outcomes
• Monitor standards of pupil behaviour and application
• Plan and implement intervention strategies where improvement needs are identified

Support for the Collegiate

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the Collegiate
• Organise and deliver an extra-curricular/super-curricular activity
• Attend and participate in regular meetings, inset and directed time
• Participate in training and other learning activities as required
• Supervise pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required
• Promote the Collegiate and its pupils positively at all times

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, with a range of flexible hours to suit
• 10% discount on Kindergarten fees (aged 3 months to 3 years
• 25% discount on all summer / holiday courses.
• Significant discount on school fees from age 3 to 18.
• Free private staff gym, separate to the students with state of the art equipment.
• Free, secure onsite parking and electrical vehicle charging points on site for staff
• Free flu jabs offered through our medical centre
• Staff community social events including bonfire and fireworks, Christmas ball, summer family fun day etc.
• 24/7 Employee Assistant Programme
• Training and Development Opportunities
• Increased holiday entitlement for staff with long service
• Long service awards
• Discount on King’s Theatre productions – external events
• Enhanced paternity / maternity pay, including new baby book
• Refer a friend scheme - We believe that staff are our greatest and most valuable asset, and this scheme involves and financially rewards our staff for referring like-minded candidates who join our school community.

Applying:

QE is committed to ensuring a safe environment for its pupils and staff. Applicants will be required to provide proof of identity and undergo the relevant DBS checks for their role.

Any personal information you share with us on your application form will be used solely for recruitment purposes. Your details will be held for up to 6 months and destroyed after this time.

Any questions on individual roles or the recruitment process can be sent to the HR department on recruitment@qe.org

We receive high volumes of applications, due to this if you have not heard from us within two weeks of your application, unfortunately on this occasion your application will not have been successful.