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Location

Epsom, Surrey | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Purpose
In conjunction with the Head of Department, ensure that the department at KS3:
• creates an environment that helps all students make maximum progress;
• delivers engaging, differentiated and well-planned lessons guided by Blenheim’s 10 Teaching and Learning best practices;
• achieves high standards of student attainment and progress in public examinations;
• ensures students of all ages are supported and challenged as necessary and achieve optimum levels of engagement with school life;
• supports and challenges members of the department as necessary thus ensuring that the student experience and progress is maximised;
• helps maximise student attendance by the department delivering creative, innovative and rewarding lessons;
• role models excellent practices, going ‘above and beyond’, intervening with students outside the curriculum so they ‘catch up’ as quickly as possible;
• supports and challenges Heads of Year so that underachieving students have barriers removed from their learning including being properly equipped for lessons;
• encourages students to follow the SHAPE and PLEASE principle, that guide students’ learning behaviours;
• follows department and whole school guidelines e.g. deadlines are met, registers are taken, students have challenging starter activities recapping prior learning, the main parts of lessons involve students applying their newly acquired skills or knowledge regularly and expediently etc;
• ensures lessons are well planned and follow schemes of work with regular and consistent assessments providing students with high quality feedback which they are accountable for acting upon via DIRT marking;
• encourages a culture of shared practice in the department where resources are shared, practices are discussed and peer lesson observations take place on a regular basis; typically half termly;
• communicates with parents on a range of issues, particularly where students are underachieving;
• communicates appropriate information to teaching and support staff;
• contributes to a confidential record of issues affecting the educational progress of students;
• is highly visible and a point of contact for students and families;
• reinforces, consistently, the school’s 10 school uniform non-negotiables.

Safeguarding
• To be familiar with school policies, in particular safeguarding procedures, and promote the welfare of children.

Key Responsibilities
In conjunction with the Head of Department, ensure that the department at KS3:
• advocates the place of the department in the curriculum and the benefits it will provide students once they leave school;
• ensures potentially vulnerable students succeed through differentiation and stimulating lesson delivery;
• tracks and monitors data and use it optimally to inform practice;
• produces internal and external reports as necessary;
• contributes to whole school events as necessary and weekly duties;
• communicates effectively and purposefully with parents so they are well informed;
• promotes positive attitudes to learning and behaviour for learning with vulnerable students;
• liaises with the SEND and EAL Departments to ensure students with unique needs are effectively catered for;
• upholds and promotes the values and ethos of the school;
• acts appropriately to any other reasonable requests.

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