Teacher of Psychology
Holland Park School
Kensington, London
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main Pay Range (Inner London Area)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 24 April 2015
Job overview
We encourage you to read our website very carefully and familiarise yourself with our 2014 Ofsted report, our prospectus, candidate information pack and application form for the post. What will be clear to you is that you are applying to an extremely successful school and one with a decidedly clear ethos of achievement. The school’s results place it in the top 10% of schools nationally. We moved, in November 2012, into a brand new £80 million school. The school became an Academy in September 2013. The school is committed to developing its teachers and to fostering the development of outstanding teaching. Its approach is one of personalised staff development and action planning delivered through coaching and modelling of good practice.
Psychology is popular with students and it is a popular A-level subject. This post will require the successful candidate to teach AS and A2 Psychology and some Science classes. Science is a key subject in the school’s profile. RAISEonline reports performance in Science as excellent with progress in the top 15% of the country. According to ability students study triple or dual science at GCSE.
There are generous resources and accommodation in the new school is stunning. All teachers have their own large, airy and beautifully equipped laboratory which benefits from a range of interactive technology. Science colleagues benefit from the participation in the Prince’s Teaching Institute. Teachers’ professional development is led by one of the school’s Deputy Heads who is himself an outstanding science teacher.
An application form and Psychology Candidate Information Pack is available from the school’s website: www.hollandparkschool.co.uk/school/vacancies.
Deadline for receipt of applications by email is 09.00 on Friday 24th April 2015, however, prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
About Holland Park School
Leaders and teachers at Holland Park believe in the value of detailed planning, of creative, exciting, distinctive lesson ideas that seek not merely to be functional journeys through subject matter, but transformative learning experiences. They know that successful learning is not possible without rigorous and thorough methods of assessment. Teachers recognise that behaviour management is rooted in quality relationships within the context of firm boundaries, students need to believe that teachers take warm and genuine interest in them. Emotional intelligence, warmth and sensitivity is central to this post. Our work in culturing a motivated and committed workforce has been recognised in the award of IIP platinum (2020).
Our employees are the most important resource in the school and we take our appointments very seriously indeed. At the same time, we also know that applicants are making a choice and that when leaders and teachers share the ethos of a school, learning is most powerfully and successfully supported.
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