Teacher of Mathematics
Auckland Grammar School
Auckland, New Zealand
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2015
Job overview
Are you a returning kiwi based in the UK or a British teacher hoping to secure your dream role in New Zealand? If so then read on!!
Auckland Grammar School provides high quality learning opportunities for boys in Years 9 to 13 across the school and succeeds across a broad range of academic, sporting and cultural arenas. The school draws upon its proud heritage to provide a positive learning culture that encourages boys to achieve to their full potential. This school is held in high regard by its community, who see it as the school of choice. It is steeped in tradition and has a long list of significant NZers who attended this school.
Situated centrally in Newmarket a short distance from Auckland City. Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand with close to half of the country's population. Auckland is known as the City of Sails as it is surrounded by beautiful beaches and inlets. It has a warm, humid climate in the summer and mild, wet climate in the winter. It is a very multicultural city and has access to the majority of the cultural and sporting entertainment that travels the country.
The school offers both the New Zealand national qualification, NCEA, and the University of Cambridge International Examination suite (CIE).
As a teacher of Mathematics to Senior levels you will thrive working in a school where the importance of academic rigour and achievement complemented by extensive co-curricular opportunities is supported.
This position would be for a Jan 2015 start or negotiable and you would be required to complete the requirements for teaching in NZ.
If you are eager to find out more and potentially have the opportunity of meeting with one of NZ's most reputable Heads then please email through your CV's with the names of 2 senior teaching referees that we can contact for a reference to melanie@edperson.co.nz.
About Auckland Grammar School
Auckland Grammar School is a boys-only state secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. It teaches from years 9 to 13. The school also has a limited number of boarders, who live in a building adjacent to the school called Tibbs' House. It is one of the largest schools in New Zealand and is known for its unusual architectural style.
The school was created by the Auckland Grammar Appropriation Act 1868, but is predated by the school's charter given by Governor Sir George Grey's Trust Deed in 1850. Auckland Grammar School is the location of two Category I historic places under the Historic Places Act 1993 - the school's main block and a war memorial. An obelisk in front of the school commemorates former students of the school who fought in various wars. The school's main block, built in 1916 in the "Spanish Mission" style, contains a hall for school assemblies, classrooms and offices, with a vaulted ceiling covering the centre of the building. It owns a facility called VentureLodge on the outskirts of the township of Ohakune in the central North Island which is used by students for camps. The school's motto, "Per Angusta ad Augusta" (Through narrows/difficulties (Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary) to hallowed heights), is shared by some other grammar schools in Auckland. In recent times Auckland Grammar has used the translation Through difficulties to greatness (a much better translation). Educational Philosophy
• Auckland Grammar School provides boys with a rigorous academic education. Each boy is expected to pursue excellence in acquiring the knowledge and skills and the sense of values which the School has always provided. The School will hold fast to these, its core traditions, through which it has achieved a pre-eminence in secondary education and which remain the key factors in fulfilling the aspirations of its community.
• The School insists on all-round excellence in academic, sporting and cultural pursuits, encouraging each boy to recognise and develop his individual potential to the full and to gain pride and satisfaction through setting demanding personal goals and striving to attain them. Opportunities are also given to all boys for participation in group and team endeavours to develop skills in co-operation. Healthy competition is promoted in all activities.
• The School encourages the development of the whole person to produce young men ready, willing and able to assume useful roles in society and to be responsible citizens, some of whom will be international, national and local leaders and all of whom will be sensitive to the needs of others.
• The success of the School depends on the calibre and dedication of its Headmaster and its teachers, on the support of its community, the response of its boys and the strength of its Trustees.
• To this end the School must be aware of the challenges of a changing society, encouraging a respect for tradition and a healthy attitude to change, not for its own sake, but based on careful and sensible evaluation.
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