Design and Technology Teacher - Full-time

Oakwood Park Grammar School, Maidstone

Ref:KCC886-5422-185T
Posted:16/09/2022
Pay:MPS
Start Date:January 2023 or sooner
App Close Date:07/10/2022 at 12:00
Interviews:w/b 10th October 2022

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Required from January 2023

Are you a creative, innovative thinker with a passion for Product Design? Are you passionate about working with and supporting students in design and manufacturing tasks?

Oakwood Park Grammar School is seeking a full time Design and Technology teacher to join us from January 2023 (or earlier if possible) in our popular and high achieving Design and Technology department. If you are keen to have an involvement in extracurricular activities and play a full part in the life of the school community by supporting the school aims and ethos, policies then we’d love to hear from you.

The applicant for this job should have:

Experience in teaching Design and Technology (Resistant Materials or Product Design) across a range of year groups.
Good knowledge in CAD / CAM programs such as 3D Solidworks and Techsoft 2D Design.
Good knowledge in using and working with a range of general workshop machinery and tools.
Good knowledge in materials and manufacturing processes including CNC machinery.
Health and safety knowledge in the use of workshop machinery.

Please send your application form and a covering letter to the Headteacher by 12 noon on the closing date of 7^th October 2022.

Oakwood Park Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with former employers and Enhanced DBS check.

Information about the school

Oakwood Park Grammar School is a five-form entry (usually 160 in each year) Boys’ Grammar School of currently 1095 students. We have a co-educational Sixth Form of 311 students. Entry at 11 to the school is through the Kent Test (11+) where students sit three papers in Mathematics, English and Reasoning.

We have been on the site since 1959 and we share an attractive campus with two schools (St Augustine Academy and St Simon Stock) and a college of Further Education (Mid-Kent College). This gives the site a unique feel with over four thousand students.

Our teaching and support staff are dedicated and hardworking and very loyal to the school.

Oakwood Park Grammar School has a wealth of extra-curricular activities for its students. Sport is very strong with national success in football, alongside rugby, cricket, basketball and athletics. We also cater for rowing, fencing, table tennis and climbing. Music and Drama are also popular with an annual production. We also have other extra-curricular activities such as robotics, debating and chess.

Academic standards are high at both GCSE and A Level. In the Sixth Form, on average, well over half of our students who apply to universities will secure offers from prestigious Russell Group universities and we regularly send students to Oxbridge colleges.

In 2019 we were graded Good overall by Ofsted but did achieve Outstanding for our Behaviour and our Sixth Form provision.

We are a welcoming, open school with a clear focus on developing staff, with teaching and learning at the heart of our professional development.

Job Contact Information

Name:Mrs J Nichol
Address:Oakwood Park, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8AH
Telephone: (01622) 726683
Email: kmoody@opgs.org

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