Would you like to join a popular, oversubscribed school with excellent state of the art facilities?

We are looking for a fully qualified, highly enthusiastic Teacher of Chemistry, or Physics to join our thriving Science Department. This is a great opportunity to work in a well-resourced department with many high-quality laboratories and a fantastic team of technicians. You will be working alongside a team of collaborative professionals who provide superb learning opportunities for students and share in students’ ambitions to succeed.

There is an opportunity for a TLR 2A for KS3 Lead  for the right candidate.

Our KS4 and KS5 Science courses are incredibly popular with many students taking separate GCSEs in each Science and two classes of each Science at A Level. We also offer a variety of enrichment opportunities for our students including a KS3 Science club, a Gardening club, subject Olympiads at KS5, and a Green Power racing car team, as well as running trips to CERN for KS5 Physics students.

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Furze Platt is a highly successful and inclusive mixed comprehensive school serving the children of Maidenhead.   At Furze Platt, over 1500 students of all abilities develop the skills and qualities to enable them to excel in the future.  We are an ambitious, high-achieving and fully inclusive school in which our students are challenged and supported to achieve excellence.  We are well placed for access, with good transport links to and from London and surrounding counties.  Our school is very well resourced and equipped with many new facilities benefiting students and staff.   These include a state-of-the-art theatre, gym, fitness suite and a new three-storey teaching block incorporating science laboratories and classrooms. We are also embedding our Laptops for Learning initiative to ensure all students are equipped with a laptop in school.

We want our students to enjoy the time they spend with us by providing an education which is broad, stimulating and rewarding.  We encourage all our staff to offer enrichment opportunities with over 50 clubs and societies being offered each term. The school is proud of the wide range of extra-curricular opportunities which also includes Duke of Edinburgh, ski and theatre trips, visits overseas and many others. 

We offer a friendly and harmonious campus atmosphere, with a Senior Leadership Team who help to ensure all staff succeed and develop, allowing you to grow professionally within Furze Platt.  Furze Platt is the lead school for Teach Maidenhead, a teacher training partnership which offers School Direct teacher training giving staff the opportunity to develop their mentoring skills.  ECTs are also allocated a mentor, a reduced timetable and the opportunity to attend training sessions run by specialists from within the school.  

We are keen to ensure that we support the physical and mental wellbeing of our staff.  Discounted membership is available for the use of a fully equipped and well-maintained gym on-site.  Staff are provided with a laptop and many have their own classrooms.  We offer access to an employee advice service (Education Support) which provides information, helpful resources, and a counselling service.  We encourage community spirit and staff involvement through various social events, recent ones being our Christmas Party, Friday sports after school and a Furze Platt fantasy football league.  Student and staff nominations, as well as Long Service Awards, recognise colleagues’ contributions to our school. We have free parking on site, and we also ensure that freshly brewed coffee is ready for you during break-time with edible treats to help you through the week!