Head of Department - Geography - Full-time

Mascalls Academy , Paddock Wood

• Ref:KCC886-5439-195T
• Posted:15/04/2024
• Pay:MPS/UPS commensurate with experience + TLR
• Start Date:September 2024
• App Close Date:29/04/2024 at 14:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Mascalls Academy is seeking to recruit a Head of Department - Geography, joining the department from September 2024. The successful candidate will be passionate about their subject and have the ability to motivate, support and enthuse students. You'll join a successful and well established team working in a well-equipped environment within a very supportive and motivating environment. We offer an exciting and rewarding place to work with access to the highest quality CPD that ensures you are at the forefront of teaching and learning innovation.

Teachers at Mascalls Academy can expect;

• Impeccable student behaviour in classrooms and around the academy;
• High levels of focus in students;
• Students who are committed to their learning and want to do their very best;
• Students who work well together and show the highest level of respect towards each other and towards members of staff;
• The opportunity to be part of a team that highly values your wellbeing. Please see the Mascalls Academy Staff Wellbeing Charter 2021.

“Teachers generally check pupils’ understanding very well. They make sure that pupils have sound foundations for later learning. Teachers use behaviour systems well to prevent any disruption to lessons.” OFSTED Report (2021)

This is a permanent position offering MPS/UPS commensurate with experience + TLR available for the right candidate. 

Information about the school

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Mascalls Academy community. As a successful and popular academy, we provide our students with the opportunities within the classroom and beyond to develop into young people who will contribute positively to our local, national and global communities.

At Mascalls Academy, we offer an incredibly wide curriculum, there are twenty seven different subjects being taught at GCSE level and twenty nine subjects at A level. We are also proud to be an International Baccalaureate World School offering the Middle Years Programme in Years 7-9 which is designed to develop happy, inquisitive, rounded, independent, globally aware and resilient young people. Our co-curriculum offers an incredible eighteen lunchtime clubs and twenty one after school clubs alongside teams in football, netball, rugby, volleyball and many more.

We achieve academic excellence and promote the Arts, our Creative Arts National Area of Excellence develops the skills and confidence our students need to succeed through visual art, dance, drama and music. There really is an opportunity for everyone to be happy and succeed here and that underpins the very core of our purpose.

Whilst our academy is large, we support our students by breaking it down into smaller schools, known as colleges. Each college is roughly the size of the average primary school and is headed by a large and dedicated leadership team devoted to the academic and pastoral care of the students within it. We prioritise mental health and well being alongside academic achievement through our on-site provision of Place2be, offering full time individual and group therapy sessions for those who need it. In partnership with parents we work closely through the seven-year journey from the very first day to the confident, knowledgeable and disciplined individuals leaving our academy as young adults.

We have incredibly high expectations of behaviour. Our students are happy, they are polite and show respect. Our behaviour systems promote a discipline within our students that prepares them fully for the world beyond the academy. As an academy, as a community we achieve academic excellence, develop strength of individual character supported by our culture of aspiration and celebrating success. Our rewards system recognises the success of our students through achievement points, Golden Tickets, half colours and full colours. Achievement and progress are rewarded within every lesson.

What underpins all that we do is that we truly care, Mascalls Academy really is a community in the truest sense. Developing successful and happy young people requires a team, and strong and supportive communication between all members of our community is essential to ensure this. Our students are balanced and compassionate young people who care for one another and have pride in what we all achieve each and every day.

Thank you for reading and I hope we will be welcoming you to the Mascalls Academy community in the future.- Principal Jo Brooks

Job Contact Information

• Name:Elene Redelinghuys
• Address:Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6LT
• Telephone: 01634 412 273
• Email: talent@latrust.org.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• HOD | Job Description | Mascalls Academy