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Physics Teacher

Physics Teacher

Leighton Park School

Reading

  • Expired
Salary:
Competitive salary with excellent terms, conditions and benefits.
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2024
Apply by:
28 April 2024

Job overview

HMC Co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18.

 

Physics Teacher

Available From September 2024

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic teacher of Physics, to join a dynamic and popular department from September 2024. This post would suit an experienced practitioner or a newly qualified teacher who is keen to develop. Using your passion for teaching, you will inspire students in KS3, KS4, A level and International Baccalaureate. The successful candidate should be a dynamic team-worker and bring enthusiasm to this post. A willingness to participate in Co-Curricular activities is also required.

Leighton Park won the prestigious Senior School of the Year award at the Independent Schools Association ISA Awards 2023. Among the factors considered by the judges were the School’s academic success, with our Sixth Formers achieving the best academic progress in Berkshire, our award-winning pupil personal development programme and sector-leading pastoral care. We inspire our students to imagine a better world and we hold ourselves to the same high standard.

Leighton Park School is set in over sixty acres of beautiful parkland near to the heart of Reading. Leighton Park offers a distinctive atmosphere that creates achievement with values, character and community. Founded on Quaker principles, we seek to inspire each student to fulfil their academic and personal potential and be reflective, purposeful adults. We appoint candidates who will contribute and thrive in our vibrant community.

The school offers a supportive and professional workplace with excellent terms, conditions and benefits. Accommodation may also be available.

To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.

Applicants are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school which delights in being diverse, open-minded and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.


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Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for approximately 500 pupils aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland. 

Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In March 2021 we won the ISA Award for Outstanding Local Community Outreach for the involvement of our students, staff and parents in projects helping those less fortunate and putting our Quaker values into practice.

We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100. 

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