Head of History - Full-time

King Ethelbert School, Birchington

• Ref:KCC886-4120-279T
• Posted:02/05/2025
• Pay:MPS/UPS plus TLR 2b
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:12/05/2025 at 09:00
• Interviews:tbc

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Head of History

Salary: Main scale or upper pay scale plus TLR 2b

We are seeking an outstanding, dedicated teacher with a passion for enabling young people to achieve high standards in History. This vacancy provides an excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic professional. The successful candidate will take up a key role, leading and promoting a culture where students exhibit our ASPIRE values; a positive and proactive attitude, the desire to succeed, pride in themselves and their school, the opportunity and ability to inspire others and are resilient and enterprising in their approach to school and life.

King Ethelbert School is rated Good by Ofsted and is very popular, being oversubscribed for several consecutive years. We are part of the Coastal Academies Trust which is made up of a grammar school, three Thanet high schools and two primary schools. All of these schools operate independently and have unique characteristics but good practice is shared helping to drive forward standards at every level: our mission is to make Thanet the centre for excellent education. In the sixth form we offer the exciting International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme (CP) which has brought the school international recognition.

King Ethelbert School is located in the picturesque seaside town of Birchington which has stunning coastal views. Housing is affordable and the area benefits from a warm and sunny climate.

Potential applicants are welcome to visit us to experience the school first-hand. If you would like to arrange a visit, please do not hesitate to contact Debbie Shallcross, Personnel Administrator, via personnel@kingethelbert.kent.sch.uk, or on 01843 831999. More information about our school can be found by visiting www.kingethelbert.com.

King Ethelbert School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The post is subject to safeguarding checks including an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring Service and in accordance with the Requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024), King Ethelbert School will undertake an online search via social media platforms of publicly available information concerning the short listed candidates.

How to Apply: Via the Kent Teach, the TES website, or the school website.

Closing Date: Please apply as soon as possible but not later than

9am on Monday 12th May 2025

Information about the school

King Ethelbert is a mixed non-selective school of approximately 900 students. In the context of Thanet (Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate), it is one of the most popular non-selective schools each year filled with first-choice students and long waiting lists for each year group. We have a wide range of abilities studying with us including some students who have passed the Kent Test but want to be at their local school where they can be equally successful; such is our reputation. We were last visited by Ofsted in June 2024 and were again rated Good with the school receiving some extremely positive feedback. Particular strengths identified by Ofsted were; the positive relationships between staff and students, the school’s high expectations for pupils’ behaviour and the broad and ambitious curriculum delivered to all pupils.

The school’s outcomes compare favourably with other non-selective schools in Kent on a yearly basis. We are also, however, determined to ensure that we do not compromise the curriculum or the breadth of educational experience that we offer, in order to achieve a positive Progress 8 score. Our students are given as many opportunities as possible and we are a lead school in the country with the Royal Shakespeare Company and also the Turner Contemporary. We believe in preparing young people for their next steps in education or employment through mastering and developing a broad range of employability skills and learning behaviours. These are practised and embedded across the school in a number of ways both through and beyond the curriculum. Our aim is for all KES students to be ambitious for the future, globally diverse and inquisitive learners.

King Ethelbert was one of the first schools in the country to offer the International Baccalaureate Careers-Related Programme in the sixth form because it is the best post-16 educational offer in the world. We are a lead school for the IBCP and support many other schools in Kent, as well as welcome visitors from across the world to see what the IBCP does for our students and how we can share good practice internationally as well as locally.

The commitment to work together lies at the heart of Coastal Academies Trust. The trust began as a federation between King Ethelbert and Dane Court Grammar School in 2009 and these two schools still share a governing body. Over the last few years we have been joined by Cliftonville Primary School, an outstanding school, Hartsdown Academy, Royal Harbour Academy and Newington Primary School As a trust our commitment to all schools is non-negotiable. All students who attend any one of our schools are valued and important and we have a collective responsibility to all. We are committed to making Thanet the centre of excellence for education. The trust is fully invested in the continuous professional development of all its staff. We deliver bespoke leadership training to complement the new, revised NPQ programmes and give hands-on, practical experience and training to our aspiring and existing leaders at all levels.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Tom Sellen
• Address:King Ethelbert School, Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT79BL
• Telephone: 01843 831999
• Email: LauraPease@kingethelbert.kent.sch.uk

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