Teacher of English
- Organisation: Northwood College for Girls GDST
- Location: North West London
- Tenure: Full-time / Part-time
- Closing Date: Thursday 23 March 2023
An enthusiastic and engaging English teacher is required to join our English Department.
Required from: September 2023
Contract term: Permanent
Hours: Full Time or Part Time
Salary: UQT/ECT/PL1/PL2
The role:
An enthusiastic and engaging English teacher is required to join our English Department.
The successful candidate will be, above all, passionate about English literature and language. They will be excited about sharing their subject passion with our students and ready to make a mark on our vibrant school community through their teaching. They will be eager to encourage students to find their voice through creative and persuasive writing, public speaking and debating, and determined to foster in all students a love of reading and literary scholarship.
The successful candidate will be required to teach at both KS3 and GCSE level, with A Level being desirable. Commitment to wider school life is expected. We are looking for an excellent candidate and would welcome applications from those seeking either full or part time hours.
The Department:
The Department is well-resourced and experienced, and we run a rich variety of extra-curricular clubs including Debate and Public Speaking, Senior Literary Society and Creative Writing Club.
Many girls take English Literature at A Level, and we are delighted that every year, students take places at Russell Group and Oxbridge universities. We prepare our girls for AQA GCSE in both English Literature and English Language, which they take at the end of Year 11 and we follow the AQA A Level Specification in the Sixth Form.
We have spacious teaching rooms that are excellent collaborative learning spaces, consisting of grouped tables and with accessibility to a variety of digital technology including a computer suite, flexible Maker Space and iPads, and all students are trained in using their own Chrome Books. The school’s Centenary Library is an inspiring place for both students and teachers to indulge their love of literature.
We encourage our students to engage with English beyond the classroom through theatre visits, lectures, creative and essay writing competitions, lunchtime clubs and trips. This academic year, we have taken A Level students to see Othello, GCSE students to see Macbeth Year 11 to a GCSE Poetry Live lecture day. In addition, performance poet Karl Nova led Year 10 workshops and spoke to KS3, and antiracist author Jeffrey Boakye worked with students from across the school. Alongside providing a range of opportunities, we also encourage students to take the initiative: Year 12 students have set up an upper school Poetry Circle while Year 10 students run the Key Stage 3 Literary Film Club. In addition, students from Years 9 and 10 are leading supported paired reading with Junior School girls for the service section of their Duke of Edinburgh Award. It is essential that the successful candidate is prepared to contribute to the Department’s extra-curricular activities and participate in planning and attending trips.
About the School:
Northwood College for Girls is an independent, academically selective day school for approximately 880 girls aged 3-18. An NWC education enables every girl to lead a purposeful life and feel successful in their learning. We are determined that the students in our care enjoy their time at school and leave us fully cognisant of their individual strengths, as well as being appreciative of the value of collective endeavour, teamwork and community. Our rigorous curriculum ignites intellectual curiosity, encouraging students to enjoy subject depth and breadth as true polymaths and building resilience through challenge. Both students and staff are encouraged to find and develop their passions and talents, through clubs, societies and an extensive programme of CPD. All members of the NWC community are expected to act with compassion and integrity, with respect for others and the environment and an awareness of global responsibility.
NWC is at an exhilarating moment in its evolution with exciting new buildings and further school development projects around the corner. The successful candidate will be similarly ambitious for the school, and for the English Department, in particular.
Benefits:
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Family friendly policies
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension scheme
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and an application form please visit the school’s website.
Applications must be received by 9am on Thursday 23 March 2023. Early applications are encouraged and we may interview candidates prior to the deadline.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
An enthusiastic and engaging English teacher is required to join our English Department.
Description
Required from: September 2023
Contract term: Permanent
Hours: Full Time or Part Time
Salary: UQT/ECT/PL1/PL2
The role:
An enthusiastic and engaging English teacher is required to join our English Department.
The successful candidate will be, above all, passionate about English literature and language. They will be excited about sharing their subject passion with our students and ready to make a mark on our vibrant school community through their teaching. They will be eager to encourage students to find their voice through creative and persuasive writing, public speaking and debating, and determined to foster in all students a love of reading and literary scholarship.
The successful candidate will be required to teach at both KS3 and GCSE level, with A Level being desirable. Commitment to wider school life is expected. We are looking for an excellent candidate and would welcome applications from those seeking either full or part time hours.
The Department:
The Department is well-resourced and experienced, and we run a rich variety of extra-curricular clubs including Debate and Public Speaking, Senior Literary Society and Creative Writing Club.
Many girls take English Literature at A Level, and we are delighted that every year, students take places at Russell Group and Oxbridge universities. We prepare our girls for AQA GCSE in both English Literature and English Language, which they take at the end of Year 11 and we follow the AQA A Level Specification in the Sixth Form.
We have spacious teaching rooms that are excellent collaborative learning spaces, consisting of grouped tables and with accessibility to a variety of digital technology including a computer suite, flexible Maker Space and iPads, and all students are trained in using their own Chrome Books. The school’s Centenary Library is an inspiring place for both students and teachers to indulge their love of literature.
We encourage our students to engage with English beyond the classroom through theatre visits, lectures, creative and essay writing competitions, lunchtime clubs and trips. This academic year, we have taken A Level students to see Othello, GCSE students to see Macbeth Year 11 to a GCSE Poetry Live lecture day. In addition, performance poet Karl Nova led Year 10 workshops and spoke to KS3, and antiracist author Jeffrey Boakye worked with students from across the school. Alongside providing a range of opportunities, we also encourage students to take the initiative: Year 12 students have set up an upper school Poetry Circle while Year 10 students run the Key Stage 3 Literary Film Club. In addition, students from Years 9 and 10 are leading supported paired reading with Junior School girls for the service section of their Duke of Edinburgh Award. It is essential that the successful candidate is prepared to contribute to the Department’s extra-curricular activities and participate in planning and attending trips.
About the School:
Northwood College for Girls is an independent, academically selective day school for approximately 880 girls aged 3-18. An NWC education enables every girl to lead a purposeful life and feel successful in their learning. We are determined that the students in our care enjoy their time at school and leave us fully cognisant of their individual strengths, as well as being appreciative of the value of collective endeavour, teamwork and community. Our rigorous curriculum ignites intellectual curiosity, encouraging students to enjoy subject depth and breadth as true polymaths and building resilience through challenge. Both students and staff are encouraged to find and develop their passions and talents, through clubs, societies and an extensive programme of CPD. All members of the NWC community are expected to act with compassion and integrity, with respect for others and the environment and an awareness of global responsibility.
NWC is at an exhilarating moment in its evolution with exciting new buildings and further school development projects around the corner. The successful candidate will be similarly ambitious for the school, and for the English Department, in particular.
Benefits:
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Family friendly policies
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension scheme
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and an application form please visit the school’s website.
Applications must be received by 9am on Thursday 23 March 2023. Early applications are encouraged and we may interview candidates prior to the deadline.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
