Teacher of Spanish - Part-Time - Part-time

Cranbrook School, Cranbrook

• Ref:KCC886-5416-18T
• Posted:10/03/2026
• Pay:Main pay scale
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:19/03/2026 at 23:45
• Interviews:23rd March

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Cranbrook School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and inspirational qualified teacher to teach Spanish up to KS5 and French up to KS3. This is a 0.5 part-time permanent post commencing on 1 September 2026.

The MFL department is creative, dynamic, and ambitious, with a strong commitment to promoting a love of languages from the start. We offer a welcoming and supportive working environment, and warmly encourage from both newly qualified and experienced teachers.

If you are a passionate linguist who can bring language and culture to life and inspire, motivate, and challenge your classes, we would be delighted to hear from you. 

Consistently high value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of the school’s wider provision within a selective environment.

Cranbrook School has a thriving boarding community that offers great opportunities for staff to become involved and for which accommodation may be available.

 The closing date for applications is Monday 16th March. Interviews will be held in the week commencing Monday  23rd March.

Our MFL Department comprises a team of four passionate linguists with strong subject knowledge. All staff teach across the three key stages and all can teach more than one language at KS3. We pride ourselves on the strength of our teaching and learning strategies, our collaborative ethos, and our shared commitment to student success. Our team brings together a range of experience and subject expertise, and we are passionate about delivering high-quality lessons that inspire and challenge our students to reach their full academic potential. 

The Spanish curriculum at Cranbrook School is designed to foster a love of language learning, cultural awareness, and confident communication. It aims to provide all students, including those with SEND, with the opportunity to develop linguistic competence and intercultural understanding, preparing them for life in a global society. The department works well together with a common goal to give all students a positive experience of learning a language, discovering different cultures, and ultimately creating life-long language learners.

Information about the school

Cranbrook School is a mixed state grammar school with 922 pupils aged 11-18 years, including around 224 boarders. It was founded in 1518. Day pupils come from within 5.28 miles of the school, following a test to judge their suitability for a grammar school education. Boarders are admitted from a wide area, having sat the same test. Although it is a selective school, Cranbrook admits a wider ability range than many other grammar schools. We provide a challenging and supportive curriculum so that students of all abilities are catered for. The value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of our provision.

Pupils join at the age of 11 or 13, and in Year 10 they start GCSEs in nine or ten subjects. Most students then qualify for the Sixth Form, this being supplemented by a healthy intake into Year 12 from other schools. All Sixth Formers take at least three A levels and can choose the EPQ and other qualifications in addition.

For a state school, the facilities are impressive. Within the seventy acres of school grounds are found the six boarding houses, the Queen’s Hall Theatre (used for assemblies, school productions, visiting theatre companies and concerts), a large library and lecture theatre. Sports facilities include a large sports hall, dance studio, cardio gym, weights room, heated outdoor swimming pool, squash courts and extensive playing fields and facilities for games - hockey, rugby, cricket, netball, tennis and athletics – as well as an astro-turf pitch. The school also possesses a Performing Arts Centre that houses a drama studio and music practice rooms, and a vibrant Sixth Form Centre. The school boasts an Observatory named after Dr Piers Sellers OBE, an Old Cranbrookian and NASA astronaut.

Cranbrook is keen to educate the whole person and to this end it runs a wide programme of extra-curricular activities, including the Combined Cadet Force and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, as well as a broad range of sports, music and drama, both during the week and at the weekend. We have a long tradition of overseas trips and, in recent years, groups have travelled to South America, Portugal, Nepal, and southern India for sports tours, exchanges, adventure, and to work on projects.

Cranbrook’s boarding houses each have their own ethos and identity and a marked sense of house pride. There is a full fixture programme on weekends and a variety of trips and activities on Sundays, for which a number of staff give up their time. The boarding life of the School offers both staff and students new and enriching experiences and makes this an exciting and fun place to work.

Cranbrook is an active school which will appeal to those prepared to give generously of their time and to take the progress and development of their students very seriously. The school seeks to appoint staff who will involve themselves fully in the life of the school, and applicants are invited to indicate areas where they would be able to make a contribution. We welcome Early Careers Teachers and have a number of experienced mentors on our staff. ECTs and their mentors are offered additional support via Teach in Kent to help ensure a positive experience during the two-year training.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Karen Radford
• Address:Waterloo Road, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3JD
• Telephone: 01580 711800
• Email: bursar@cranbrook.kent.sch.uk

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