Main Purpose of the Role:

Under the direction of the Phase Lead and Deputy Head Teacher you will :

have a subject leader responsibility

have responsibility for planning and delivering learning, including producing resources and effectively assessing progress

be an excellent classroom practitioner

have pastoral responsibility for a form group

be committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding

promote the school vision, aims and ethos.

Duties and Responsibilities

Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject(s) that you teach

Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangement as appropriate.

Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of pupils’ you teach 

Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on these demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn

Have a clear understanding of the many varied needs of our pupils, and demonstrate a commitment to continually improving understanding of special educational needs in order to become an expert practitioner.

Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy including the correct use of spoken English (whatever your specialist subject)

If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies e.g. systematic synthetic phonics

Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all

backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment

Make accurate and productive use of assessment to secure pupils’ progress 

Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback, reflect on progress, their emerging needs and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study

Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons

Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired as appropriate

Participate in arrangements for examinations and assessments within the remit of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document