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Teacher of English - Highdown School
| Posting date: | 20 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 January 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LR |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 14d5d60e-bab7-4b12-8d4e-8cff53aa3827-1 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Full time/Part time - Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
We are looking for an outstanding, passionate and dynamic practitioner to join our highly successful and well-resourced English department of 12 staff. This post would be suitable for either an ECT or an experienced teacher. A willingness to teach across all years and abilities is essential.
You should be a highly motivated and successful individual who is willing to contribute to all aspects of the school vision and the many enrichment activities that the department offers.
Why Highdown School?
•We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
•We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
•We provide highly regarded ECT induction and Coaching for Excellence programmes
•We have adopted a ‘Fair Workload Charter’
•Staff benefit from being members of the PiXL Club and the Princes Teaching Institute
•Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
What the school offers its staff
Closing Date: Applications considered on receipt
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check.
As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Full time/Part time - Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
We are looking for an outstanding, passionate and dynamic practitioner to join our highly successful and well-resourced English department of 12 staff. This post would be suitable for either an ECT or an experienced teacher. A willingness to teach across all years and abilities is essential.
You should be a highly motivated and successful individual who is willing to contribute to all aspects of the school vision and the many enrichment activities that the department offers.
Why Highdown School?
•We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
•We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
•We provide highly regarded ECT induction and Coaching for Excellence programmes
•We have adopted a ‘Fair Workload Charter’
•Staff benefit from being members of the PiXL Club and the Princes Teaching Institute
•Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
What the school offers its staff
Closing Date: Applications considered on receipt
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check.
As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.