Thank you for your interest in the position of Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning: Communicate Faculty (Head of MFL) at Anthony Gell School.

As part of a well-established faculty structure at AGS, our Communicate Faculty includes English, Media Studies, British Sign Language (BSL) and Modern Foreign Languages (MFL). The leadership structure within the faculty consists of a Director plus two Assistant Directors of Teaching and Learning. One of the Assistant Directors specialises in Modern Foreign Languages. Languages at Anthony Gell School is characterised by a positive, friendly atmosphere. Historically we have offered French, German and Spanish as our MFLs. Spanish was successfully launched in September 2022 and our first Spanish GCSE cohort will be examined this summer. While we have not had German in our curriculum recently, we would be open to this returning. We work collaboratively and creatively. We share resources and teach very similar curriculum units to better enable entitlement for students, continuity and progression. Consequently, a new member of the faculty team would be well supported and encouraged to contribute new ideas.

During Key Stage 3, students are taught in mixed ability groups in years 7 and 8, whereas in year 9 we use a forward setting approach in order to prepare our students to embark on their GCSE courses.  Our future offer at Key Stage 5 will be shaped by the specialisms of the successful candidate.

Anthony Gell School has maintained a strong offer of MFL during times when other schools narrowed their curriculum. Our provision of MFL is supported by existing, well-established links with other countries and partner schools. Student outcomes in MFL have been good historically and very good in recent years. We are proud of the part MFL plays in our broad and balanced curriculum.

Please find included in the application pack in the attachment list, some further detail about this role, information about the school, a job description and a person specification. I hope the information contained within this pack will help you to discover more about what makes Anthony Gell School a special place to work and learn, and enable you to gain more of an insight into the post being advertised.