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St Martin's School
Hanging Hill Lane
Hutton, Brentwood
Essex CM13 2HG
Tel: 01277 238300
NOR: 1834 including 361 sixth form students
Executive Headteacher: Jamie Foster
Role: Head of History
Salary Range: MPS / UPS + TLR2b
Start Date:January 2025
We are looking to appoint a conscientious Head of History, committed to raising attainment and progress. History is a popular subject at St Martin's across all three Key Stages. At GCSE, History is part of the EBacc qualification and we regularly have four or five classes in each cohort. Last year, 47% of our students achieved a grade 6 or above. At key Stage 5, History is offered in two option groups, with several students going on to study History or related subjects at university.
St Martin's is an over-subscribed, friendly, co-educational, fully comprehensive school located in Hutton, Brentwood. The school is on one site with extensive grounds which also includes a large sixth form block. Our ethos is a non-bureaucratic approach to all aspects of school life, while maintaining a relentless focus on learning and teaching, to ensure outstanding achievement for our students.
Application can be made via TES.com or http://www.essexschoolsjobs.co.uk
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early upon appointment of a successful applicant.
St Martin's School is an academy that forms part of the Discovery Educational Trust.
The Local Schools Committee will ensure that all staff, job applicants, and students seeking admission to the school do not suffer direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or belief, and are not disadvantaged by any other condition or requirement which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Closing date: Friday 27th September 2024 at midday
St Martin's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Information about the School
St Martin's School is a large co-educational comprehensive school located in Hutton, Brentwood. The school benefits from a pleasant semi-rural environment with agricultural land to the rear. The school, which also includes a large sixth form block, is situated on an open, attractive 30 acre site. Parking is available on-site and there are good transport links by both rail and bus. Hutton is five miles from the M25 and 19 miles from London, which is easily reached by road or train (25 minutes to Liverpool Street Station).
This is a large, but friendly school in which all staff are helped to develop their talents. This is supported by an extensive and wide ranging in-house continual professional development programme (CPD). We have high quality mentoring and induction programmes for staff with excellent opportunities for training and professional development.
- 2022 - 79% of students achieved grades 9-4 in both GCSE English and Maths and ALPS 3 progress in the sixth form
- 2023 - 84% of students achieved 9 - 4 in English and 80% achieved 9 – 4 in Maths
- Over Subscribed - 1184 applications for 292 year 7 places in 2023
- Ofsted 2024 - Good with outstanding leadership
About Discovery Educational Trust:
Discovery Educational Trust, formed in 2014, is a successful and established multi-academy trust based in South Essex, comprising just under 4000 pupils and 500 staff, across 5 schools.
Our schools are:
- Chase High School (Westcliff-on-Sea)
- St. Martin's School (Brentwood)
- Hogarth Primary School (Brentwood)
- Kelvedon Hatch Community Primary School (Brentwood)
- Larchwood Primary School (Brentwood)
We aim for each of our schools to become the school of choice within the community, offering a broad and exciting range of extracurricular activities to enhance the opportunities within their formal curriculum.
Our vision is that strong and effective leadership places our children and young people at the heart of everything we do.
We value relationships, which are open and honest, underpinned by kindness, trustworthiness and compassion.
We offer ongoing training and professional development for all staff in a supportive and collaborative environment.
We offer the following benefits for employees:
- Pension scheme - also automatically includes Life Assurance
- Generous Referral Bonus for employees who refer quality candidates to join Discovery Educational Trust
- Two-week October half term (term time staff)
- Employee savings and discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme – free confidential wellbeing support for employees and dependants
- Mental Health First Aiders – we have qualified MHFA England trainers within the Trust and continue to add to our pool of trained MHFAs
- Bike2Work scheme
- Ongoing training and professional development in a supportive and collaborative environment
- Gifted Service Leave for long service
- Health Cash plan to support with every day healthcare costs – e.g. dental, optical, physiotherapy. Includes Virtual GP service
As an equal opportunities employer, Discovery Educational Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age; disability; gender re-assignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (which includes ethnic origin, nationality and ethnic or national origins); religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Discovery Educational Trust.
Discovery Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding our pupils against radicalisation and extremism and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references.