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Teacher of Media and Film Studies - Full-time

Mascalls Academy , Paddock Wood

  • Ref:KCC886-5439-180T
  • Posted:19/02/2024
  • Pay:MPS/UPS commensurate with experience
  • Start Date: April 2024 or sooner if available
  • App Close Date:11/03/2024 at 22:00
  • Interviews:TBC

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Mascalls Academy are seeking to appoint a Teacher of Media and Film Studies to start from April 2024, or sooner if available. The ideal candidate will be well-qualified, enthusiastic and an inspiring teacher joining our highly regarded and successful Media and Film department. They will have the ability to motivate, support and enthuse students in a modern, well-equipped environment.    

At Mascalls Academy we build upon learners’ enthusiasm for film and encourage an appreciation of the medium across its many forms. We introduce learners to a wide variety of cinematic experiences which have been important in the history and development of film technologically, and culturally.

Learners explore a diverse range of cinema from different national contexts, genres and time periods, fostering a contextual awareness that is revisited frequently through a spiral curriculum. The spiral design also allows for an evolving appreciation and understanding of film as an aesthetic medium. Subject specific terminology is taught explicitly to support students’ written responses and enable them to articulate complex ideas using specialist vocabulary with confidence and sophistication.

Learners will develop analytical skills which focus on how meaning and response are generated throughout the production process, providing them with the knowledge and understanding to apply this to their own creative production work in response to a specific brief, reflective of the industry production process.

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. 

What we are offering:

  • Professional coaching and support.
  • A bespoke CPD programme.
  • Complementary holistic therapy to support staff wellbeing.
  • Free use of a staff gymnasium.
  • A thriving social and community ethos.

Please note that this role is offered on a fixed term basis until the end of the academic year initially, however, it may be extended. The salary offered is MPS/UPS commensurate with epxerience.

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.

Job Contact Information

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

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.