Thank you for your interest in the position of Geography Teacher.

Our school has been on a continuous upward trajectory for a number of years. In the summers of 2022 and 2023, our Year 11 cohorts achieved Progress 8 scores putting us in the top 10 in the county. In the summer of 2024, based on student progress, we placed in the top 8.1% of schools nationally.

As a community that develops personal growth, excellence and achievement for all, we are incredibly proud of everything the school has become and what we have achieved in the last few years: our well-rounded young people who have gone on to purposeful and challenging further education, some of the best GCSE results in the county and our recent Ofsted report (February 2026).

The Ofsted report states “The school is a warm, welcoming community where pupils are respected and well cared for. Pupils flourish academically. Pupils take their learning seriously and relish the challenge of academic study. Classrooms buzz with learning.” We were delighted to achieve Strong Standard in Leadership & Governance, Curriculum & Teaching and Achievement.

We are hugely proud of our staff who are relentlessly hardworking, supportive of one another and passionately committed to securing the best possible life chances for the young people we serve. At Long Stratton, we adopt an evidence-informed approach to curriculum, assessment and teaching. We recognise that curriculum is a journey and that our work improving the curriculum is never complete. Through our ambitious, knowledge-rich approach to curriculum, we aim to select and sequence knowledge carefully so that students acquire lifelong, memorable knowledge. We adopt a 'no written marking' approach to formative assessment, believing firmly in the power of responsive teaching as the first port of call for providing students with valuable feedback on how to improve. We apply the principles of cognitive science to our approaches to teaching: we teach with memory and overload in mind; we recap content so that students cannot forget; and we encourage metacognitive thinking through planning and live modelling. Through instructional coaching, every member of our teaching community gets regular feedback on their practice and is supported to get a little bit better every day. We are a community that is committed to constantly learning and improving so that we can continue to build a great school together, achieving truly excellent outcomes for our students.

This role is an exciting opportunity for you to join our team and teach Geography to KS3 and KS4 level. It will require huge amounts of perseverance and a constant drive for innovative excellence but will also be incredibly rewarding and will offer exciting progression for the future.