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Thurstable School seeks to appoint a teacher of modern foreign languages to join our highly successful languages faculty from September 2019.
The successful applicant will be passionate about their subject and about learning and be committed to achieving excellence in their chosen profession. You will be joining an exceptionally positive and forward thinking teaching team that is committed to collegiate working. You will be able to teach two languages from French, Spanish and German to key stage 3, and at least one of the three languages to GCSE. A level teaching is a possibility, but is not a requirement for the post.
Thurstable is an oversubscribed and highly successful 11-18 school. We offer staff an open and supportive environment, characterised by trust and by honest professional challenge, which is perhaps why Ofsted commented in 2016 that "the vast majority of staff are incredibly positive and proud to be working at Thurstable School".
We see our staff as our most important asset, and offer exceptional professional development and training opportunities, teaching across the age and ability range up to A level, and outstanding facilities for teaching and learning. We welcome informal visits from potential applicants.
This is a full time post, but we will also welcome applications for part time that we may be able to build into a job share. Please indicate on your application form whether you are applying to work full time or part time, and if part time, how many days per week you are looking for.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Information about the School
THE SCHOOL
A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.
We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.
In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.
We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.
Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.
We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.
OUR VALUES
Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.
These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.
We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.
We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.
ASPIRE
We aspire to the best jobs, college and university places
We aim to achieve the highest outcomes possible
We pursue excellence and seek recognition
We take risks and love learning
We are curious and ask questions
RESPECT
We respect ourselves, others and the environment
We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times
We are on time and we have the right equipment
We treat others in our diverse community as we wish to be treated
We always follow instructions: first time, every time
We are kind
ENDEAVOUR
We work hard to achieve success
We focus on the tasks in hand and tackle them conscientiously
We have the resilience, tenacity and grit to keep going when others give up
We represent the school and participate fully in school life
We support others to achieve