Subject Leader: Geography

Following a recent promotion to the Leadership Team, we are seeking an inspiring Subject Leader of Geography. The successful candidate will provide strong academic and strategic leadership, driving a shared vision and an ambitious curriculum that secures excellent outcomes for all students. The successful candidate will lead and support a collaborative team, ensuring excellent standards in teaching, learning, assessment, and student progress through effective monitoring, use of data, and promotion of best practice. They will play a key role in staff development, recruitment, and wellbeing, while fostering a positive and high-performing departmental culture. The role also involves contributing to whole-school decision-making, championing the subject within and beyond the classroom, and enriching students’ learning through wider opportunities. In addition, the Subject Leader will oversee the department’s resources, budget, learning environment, and examination processes, ensuring efficient and effective administration that supports outstanding educational outcomes. There may also be an opportunity in the near future for the successful candidate to apply for the post of Head of Faculty: Humanities. Geography is a strong and successful department, with its work recognised positively during the School’s most recent Ofsted inspection in October 2022, where our Quality of Education was rated as Outstanding. The department strives to be at the forefront of teaching and learning in the School and is passionate about teaching Geography in a dynamic way. The core idea of the Department of Geography which governs the attitudes towards education and decision making is celebrating geographical thinking. We want to inspire in our students a sense of wonder about the world and a genuine desire to understand it. Through our curriculum, we aim to foster a lasting curiosity and fascination with the world and its people. The department is well resourced, working in four spacious classrooms. There is a wide variety of media to support teaching and learning. At Key Stage Three the department has a bespoke, innovative curriculum of engagement for KS3 students. Coupled with our progression framework, we aim to enact, in the Ofsted vernacular, an “imaginative and stimulating geography curriculum” skillfully designed to match the full range of pupils’ needs and to ensure highly effective continuity and progression in their learning”. In Year 7 our geographical journey begins with a foundation year for students, equipping them with developing capabilities to understand places, explore how places are interconnected and how they change, and how to enquire and communicate effectively. In Year 8 we focus on global issues and sustainability in order to understand concepts such as change, risk, pressure, development, and inequality. Year 9 focuses on key geographical processes and concepts to consolidate studying geography at Key Stage 3, but also to act as a preface to G