Teacher of English - Full-time/Part-time

The Folkestone School for Girls, Folkestone

Ref:KCC886-5437-189T
Posted:30/03/2023
Pay:MPS
Start Date:September 2023
App Close Date:20/04/2023 at 12:00
Interviews:Short listed candidates notified by 24th Apr

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Teacher of English

Full or part time – minimum 0.6 FTE

Required from September 2023

We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what students get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.

At the Folkestone School for Girls, students do not complete an excessive number of qualifications. This allows them not only time to focus efforts on achieving the absolute best grades within these, but also time to participate in our huge array of co-curricular activities in school and/or pursue interests & hobbies out of school. There is time to spend with friends and family and time, too, to just be a child. A justifiable balance between intellect and character.

We seek to appoint an outstanding classroom practitioner for September 2023 to join our vibrant and successful English team. We can offer a thriving and hugely successful department – consistently amongst the very best in the country, a dedicated & stable team of staff and students who are intelligent, curious and driven to succeed.

You will need great people skills, resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG Girls.

You must be a qualified English teacher who is passionate about teaching, about books & Literature and about English. You must be keen to engage, stretch and challenge students of all ages and abilities in this 11-18 selective grammar school and be prepared to contribute to the wider community. ECT’s are also welcome to apply.

You’ll also be able to get involved with our unique personal development and character education programme, The FSGBacc, which encompasses a wide range of activities – from our very own escape room and radio station, through to our extensive Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme or our Combined Cadet Force Contingent! Sport, Music, Debate, Drama, Dance, Adventure – there really is something for everyone! Find out more details here: https://sites.google.com/folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk/fsgbacc/

You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website.

Details of this position and an application form are available:

on our website www.folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

or by email: kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

Only applications submitted on the schools or Kent Teach application form will be considered.

Closing Date: 20^th April 2023 at Midday

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by Monday 24^th April 2023.

The Folkestone School for Girls is committed to the protection and safety of its students. Applicants should be aware that we use the Disclosure and Barring Service to assess suitability for positions of trust. Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education Legislation. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Information about the school

The Folkestone School for Girls is driven by the unshakeable belief that exam results are what you get; they do not define who you are and will play only a part in shaping the person you become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do! We want all girls to have the opportunity to explore and excel, to learn and to grow - not only in the classroom but beyond it. Alongside our unique personal development and character education programme, the FSGBacc, our international outlook is also at the heart of what we do and equally vital to our ethos; we want our girls to know that as human beings there is much more that unites us than divides us.

We believe that our curriculum should not just interest and inspire the girls, not just reflect and respond and be relevant to the world we live in but that we need to be much more ambitious; that the curriculum we teach should help to change the world for the better: a curriculum that teaches our girls to value themselves, value each other, value the world we live in and the world around them. A curriculum for values. A curriculum for empathy. A curriculum for wisdom.

A curriculum to change their world. A curriculum to change the world.

Our ambition for our school is to be the best in the world; nothing less. To be world leading and world changing; to know the whole child/every child and have a curriculum which develops the whole child/every child.

Our ambition for our girls is that they leave us after seven years well qualified and well rounded; intellect and character. They will feel ten feet tall, be bold and spectacular. They will have the knowledge, the skills, the drive, the courage, the wisdom, the optimism and the values to change the world for the better.

Intellect & character. This is our curriculum. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. We are extremely proud of it.

Come join us.

Job Contact Information

Name:Kathryn Whawell
Address:The Folkestone School For Girls, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3RB
Telephone: 01303 251125
Email: kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

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