Teacher of English

Are you an enthusiastic and committed teacher of

English looking to make an impact on young people's lives?

King

Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is seeking to appoint someone who believes

passionately about making a difference to the lives of every student and who

does so with integrity, humility and relentless positivity.

The English department at King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is

an exceptionally successful one, consistently helping students attain

outstanding GCSE grades and regularly achieves a Progress 8 score that is among

the highest for English in the whole of Birmingham.

As a department, our vision is to instil in each of our students a love

of reading and writing, and to promote a genuine sense of intellectual

curiosity. By exploring a range of texts from different eras, genres and

backgrounds, we aim to broaden students’ horizons and open minds: that is, to

encourage an appreciation of different ideas, viewpoints and beliefs, as well

as an understanding of the ways that language and structure can be used to

create meaning and shape messages.

Through our curriculum, learners will become confident readers, writers

and speakers, with discussion and debate forming the heart of English lessons.

Beyond the classroom, we run a weekly Debate Club and coordinate the school’s

official student magazine, Loudspeaker, to ensure that our students have

additional opportunities to express themselves creatively through speech and

writing. Ultimately, we want students to discover the same passion for our

subject – a love of reading, writing, and discussing ideas – that their

teachers feel.

The

successful candidate will be joining a committed and forward thinking team of

staff, with opportunities for career development. The post is suitable for a current classroom

teacher or for an Early Career teacher.

In

return we are offering the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a

thriving community, composed of kind and respectful students who are dedicated

to their learning and colleagues who are caring, compassionate and committed. Staff and students have extremely positive

relationships underpinned by our school value of ‘respect’. We are a happy and caring school which values

and takes pride in diversity and celebrates individuality.

If our

vision and values match your own philosophy, we would welcome an application.