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Teacher of Art and Design

Teacher of Art and Design

Mearns Castle High School

East Renfrewshire

Salary:
£26,235-£34,887
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
15 March 2015

Job overview

Applicants should be able to demonstrate the necessary skills and experience to teach across the age and ability range and to play an active role in assisting to take Mearns Castle High School forward within the context of one of Scotland’s highest performing local authorities.
 
This post will commence in August 2015.  Probationer teachers in the Teacher Induction Scheme, due to qualify in June 2015, are eligible to apply.
 
This post is considered Regulated Work with Children, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007.  It is an offence therefore to apply if you are barred from working with children

Please apply here - https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/east-renfrewshire-council/jobs/teacher-art-and-design-8938/?utm_source=TESS&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=TESSGlobal

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About Mearns Castle High School

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Mearns Castle High School is one of seven secondary schools within East Renfrewshire Council.

East Renfrewshire is a forward thinking Local Authority which is committed to continuous improvement for its residents. The Education Department’s vision statement ‘Everyone Attaining, Everyone Achieving through Excellent Experiences’ captures the aims of the department and its schools to ensure that we deliver excellence and equity for all stakeholders using our service. To deliver on this pledge we offer support and challenge to our schools and the high quality outcomes achieved by our children and young people are reflective of the ethos of high expectations we have for all our staff and pupils.

Mearns Castle High School works within the context of the key priorities of the National Improvement Framework and East Renfrewshire Council Education Department’s Local Improvement Plan.

Context

Mearns Castle High School is a large non-denominational school and is organised as a six year all through comprehensive secondary school. It serves the communities of Newton Mearns, Waterfoot and Eaglesham.

The school enjoys a very close relationship with its Cluster Primary and Nursery schools which consist of Hazeldene Family Centre, Eaglesham Primary School, Kirkhill Primary School, Mearns Primary School and Calderwood Lodge Primary School, the latter of which is a Jewish Primary School. The most recent addition to the Cluster is Maidenhill Primary School which in the coming years will contribute to the school roll at Mearns Castle, rising from 1300 to over 1500. The Cluster schools work together as a team to ensure a coherent, progressive and high quality 3-18 curriculum for our pupils.

Facilities

The school building stands in its own grounds overlooking Newton Mearns. The school is fully equipped with Wifi and all classrooms feature an interactive board and digital projector. This latter provision has enabled the school to make substantial progress and improvements with digital learning, as a result of which we will achieve the Digital Schools Award.

Ethos

The school has a strong ethos of inclusion, equality, ambition and achievement.

Our school’s ethos is underpinned by our shared Vision, Values and Aims which shape and guide our work both strategically and on a day to day basis. Our Vision, Values and Aims are set out below.

Our Vision

The Mearns Castle High School community will work together to sustain a safe, inclusive and high quality learning environment that enables us to develop fully our capacities as successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors to society.

Staff

The school is fully staffed with a balance of experienced and recently appointed staff who have close and positive working relationships and who work very well as a team.

There is a teaching complement of 97 fte, made up of 111 teachers with a promoted post structure as follows:

1 Head Teacher

5.4 fte Depute Head Teachers

12 Principal Teachers Curriculum

8 Principal Teacher Pupil Support

2 Principal Teachers Development

The school support staff are as follows:

1 Business Manager and 1 Support Assistant

5.9 fte Clerical Staff

8.7 fte Pupil Support Assistants

3.6 fte Technicians (plus a shared area Senior Technician)

0.5fte Librarian

5 Janitors

Catering and Cleaning staff

Pupils

The current roll is 1300, which is made up of pupils from a range of ethnically diverse backgrounds. 73% of pupils reside in areas categorised as SIMD 9 and 10. The remainder are in areas SIMD 1-8. 5% of pupils are entitled to free school meals.

We offer a wide range of opportunities for pupil leadership, particularly through our Pupil Leadership Team and our House System, which features six Houses with House Captains and Prefect positions from S1-S6.

Our principal mechanism for consulting with pupils is our Year Group Councils and our Pupil Council, which is made up of representatives from each year group and chaired by our Head Girl and Head Boy.

Partners

The school is fortunate in having a strong partnership with parents. Parents have high expectations of the school and provide encouragement and support for their children.

We have an active Parent Council which offers positive backing to the staff including advice, support for school projects and financial support.

An increasingly wide range of other partners support the delivery of a high quality curriculum in the school, particularly in relation to our work on Developing the Young Workforce.

Curriculum

The curriculum at Mearns Castle High School is the totality of experiences which is planned for our pupils through their education, wherever they are educated.

Our curriculum takes account of Local and National advice and is designed to provide a coherent and progressive experience for all of our pupils building on their prior educational experience during the Pre-school years and subsequently at Primary School.

In addition, in partnership with their parents/carers pupils will receive high quality personal support designed to meet their individual needs. A pupil’s experience will also be characterised by a wide range of opportunities for personal and wider achievement and to contribute to the life and work of the school. These achievements and contributions are celebrated and recognised through a range of wider awards.

Through our curriculum we endeavour to ensure the highest levels of attainment and achievement for every individual pupil, culminating in the successful transition to a sustained, positive destination.

Achievement and Attainment

Overall, our pupils are successful, confident, exercise responsibility and contribute to the life of the school, the wider community and as global citizens. They are personally and socially adept and have achieved a range of skills and attributes through a wide range of activities.

Our pupils are supported to develop an international mind-set equipping them for the rapidly changing and increasingly globalised world. In particular we continue to develop and expand the provision of Mandarin in our Modern Languages Curriculum. 30 pupils attended the seventh SCEN China Youth Summit ‘Scotland: China – Our Future’ and one pupil qualified for the British Mandarin Speaking Competition Final in London.

Charity fund-raising is an important focus in our school and each year we raise thousands of pounds for a range of charities. Our main partner is the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice and there is a bedroom in the new hospice named after the school in acknowledgement of our many years of fund-raising.

In addition we have also achieved the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools award at Bronze level, the International Schools award, the Eco Schools award and the Sport Scotland Gold award.

Pupil attainment in the school has reached a very high and consistent level in recent years. Around 80% of pupils achieve CfE Level 4 in Literacy and Numeracy by the end of S3. More than 80% of pupils regularly achieve 5+ Level 5 qualifications by the end of S4 and more than 50% regularly achieve 5+ Level 6 qualifications by the end of S5. Ultimately, more than 70% of pupils achieve 5+ Level 6 qualifications by the end of S6 and our sustained School Leaver Destination statistics are consistently over 97% positive.

Other information

More detailed information on the successes and achievements of our school is available on our school’s website and Twitter feed. Our School Handbook and most recent School Improvement Plan and Standards and Quality Report are also on our school’s website.

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