Rhyddings
Location
Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
We would like to extend a warm welcome from all pupils, staff, governors and trustees of Rhyddings. Rhyddings serves the East Lancashire old mill town of Oswaldtwistle and surrounding area of Hyndburn. It has been at the heart of the community for over 90 years and although a smaller than average high school, but expanding, we cater for pupils from a diverse range of backgrounds. The school enjoys good transport links via the M65 corridor and adjoining networks of M6 and M66.
We continue to work hard to prepare the young people we serve and help them realise and reach their potential, providing them with the very best educational experiences. We are also part of a group of founding schools in Hyndburn to form the LET multi- academy trust (MAT), within Hyndburn, with a neighbouring high school and two primary schools.
Pupils are well supported through our Pastoral Year and House Continent system, with year group tutoring further supporting the child. This provides the care and guidance pupils need to perform well across the curriculum as well as healthy competition throughout the year.
We have an active extra-curricular programme and run a number of annual residential trips both here and abroad. Close links with local business and Rotary Club provides access to bespoke programmes, community work, work experience and charitable activities. Pupils also have the opportunity to participate and complete their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award and some participate in The Prince’s Trust programme.
This is a newly created post for our expanding school and PE team.
Rhyddings, part of the LET Education Trust, are seeking an enthusiastic, committed, qualified Teacher of Physical Education to join our successful and expanding team and school.
We are looking for an excellent practitioner who is both creative and challenging in their teaching. They will be passionate and committed to ensuring pupils maximise their potential and achievement. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to teach across our whole 11-16 age and ability range and will be well supported by our Lead Subject Teacher in the PE Dept. The ability to teach a second subject is required and KS3 Science would be desirable but not essential. First and foremost we want an excellent teacher of PE.
As a key member of the team you will be expected to have experience in teaching across both KS3 & KS4, including the delivery of a GSCE/L2 specification.
We want a teacher who strives for excellence, builds fantastic relationships and maximises pupil progress.
The department currently has three specialists and we have excellent resources and facilities including a Gym, Sports Hall, 3G MUGA, hard surface areas, fitness room, extensive playing fields and offsite Football Foundation pitches at The Heys facility and we also have use of the Trust minibus.
We currently teach 4 hours per fortnight at KS3, at KS4 there is 3 hours per fortnight for statutory PE and 5 hours per fortnight for the option group who currently follow the L2 OCR Cambridge Nationals in Sport Science.
The PE department participate in all the major inter-school sporting competitions throughout the year, run an extensive extra curricular PE programme, supplemented by other staff, and host and run the local primary school sports events.
We have excellent training, support and professional development for all staff from ECT to UPS.
We have a comprehensive offer of professional development. This includes
regular CPD opportunities across the year for whole staff, teams and
individuals.
Our curriculum planning meetings are developmental and this is further supported by our dedicated weekly hour of Personal Professional Development.
We subscribe and use StepLab Coaching and Walkthroughs to support our CPD offer. A number of staff have successfully completed NPQs.
This underpins our research approach to our appraisal system, which is based on a Personal Inquiry Question. School also has a CPD library, uses collaborative learning tools, as well as accessing external courses and training, including NPQ’s. Work across the Trust is also a feature of our commitment to developing our staff and providing the very best opportunities.
Each school in our Trust has a Child Safeguarding Policy and procedures in place and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its pupils. Each pupil’s welfare is of paramount importance to us and you are expected to share this commitment. All staff will fully comply with the school’s policies and procedures, attend appropriate training, inform the designated person of any concerns and record any potential safeguarding incidents appropriately. Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question).
If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a self-declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form and the recruiting officer will undertake an online search in accordance with KCSiE 2023.
Please be aware that references will be requested immediately after the shortlisted candidates have been selected to ensure they have been received prior to the interview. Personal email addresses will not be accepted for any referees and the recruiting officer will contact your employer to confirm your reference.
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