Teacher of Girls’ PE with an additional subject

(maternity cover position)

Required from September 2024. Full-time or Part-time applicants welcome.

Would you like to join one of the best PE departments in the region and grow your teaching career in our dynamic and growing school?

Great Western Academy opened in brand new, state-of-the-art facilities in North Swindon in September 2018. The Academy is heavily oversubscribed in all years and our first cohorts of A-level students celebrated exceptional outcomes over the past three summers, with strong destinations for all including three Oxbridge students. Our PE team sets exceptional standards in practical and theory lessons, including strong numbers at GCSE and A-level. Students enjoy their learning and participate enthusiastically. The faculty was used as a deep dive subject in the recent Ofsted inspection with very positive outcomes. We also have teams competing in several sports against other schools, usually with excellent outcomes, such as being reigning county cup football champions. Our PE team also contributes strongly to our enrichment programme.

The successful applicants will also offer strong teaching in another subject area. This can be in any subject. The teaching of second subjects in PE is well established at GWA and allows the capacity in the PE team to deliver strong extra-curricular provision and enrichment activities, as well as taught PE lessons. The balance of second subject teaching is kept as fair as possible across the PE team, and staff all teach more PE than their second subject.

Great Western Academy runs a successful enrichment programme for all students from 3.10 to 4.15 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The subjects studied are as diverse as Astronomy, Orchestra, Volleyball, Pokemon and Scrabble. Enrichment broadens and deepens a student’s range of experiences at school and gives them the opportunity to learn with other age groups. All teachers will run one enrichment session a week as part of their directed hours. It is an opportunity to engage students’ interest in an area of your own interest.

Great Western Academy aims to radically improve the life chances of every student who attends. Our new building and state-of-the-art facilities help us to achieve this, but it is the fantastic team of staff who turn our vision into reality. If you have the proven ability to inspire students in the classroom and beyond then this provides you with an exciting opportunity to further shape your practice and develop your career. Our priority is very much to recruit the best classroom practitioners who can ensure our students arrive at the Academy excited about the day ahead and leave each day talking about the excellent learning they have experienced.

Additional benefits of working at GWA include:

• Average class sizes of 26 in years 7 to 11
• Flexible working opportunities
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• State of the art facilities
• Leading edge ICT, including a laptop provided for all staff
• Free Health and Wellbeing Support Service
• Cycle to work scheme through Cyclescheme
• Access to EV charging on site. Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Easy access to the A419, and free parking

Further details are available on the Academy website and in the information documents attached.

Applications should be submitted electronically to the recruitment email by 9am on Monday 15th April 2024. Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.

Please note we reserve the right to interview before the closing date (and close the advert early) depending on the suitability, and number of, applicants.