Teacher of Science

Teacher of Science (Full-time/Part-time)

MPS/UPS. Start date 1st September 2024.

Are you looking to join a high-performing and ambitious team of teachers in a thriving, growing school? Here is an exceptional opportunity to take the next step in your career in a positive and exciting environment.  

Great Western Academy opened in September 2018 and now accommodates over 950 students in years 7 to 11 and the Sixth Form. The school is heavily oversubscribed in years 7 to 11 and the Sixth Form is flourishing. Our first GCSE results in summer 2023 showed that the progress made by the large majority of our first cohort of year 11 students has been excellent with notable achievement in Physics, Biology and Chemistry GCSE’s. The results of our first three A-level cohorts in summer 2021, 2022 and 2023 were excellent and enabled 98% of university applicants to take up their offers, including three to Oxford and Cambridge: students have also secured prestigious apprenticeships with companies such as Airbus and Rolls Royce. We believe firmly that strong outcomes follow from high expectations, high quality teaching, and strong support in terms of behaviour structures and targeted academic and pastoral interventions.

We have thriving groups of A-level Biologists, Chemists and Physicists in both Years 12 and 13. The foundations we have laid in Science are excellent; our team of thirteen experienced staff ensure students enjoy their learning, and the progress being made in all year groups is excellent. The Science team benefits from ten new teaching rooms and a fully stocked prep room. 

An opportunity has arisen to join our Science Faculty to support the teaching of Science at GCSE and A-level. We are looking for an enthusiastic and positive practitioner, ideally with previous experience of successful A-level teaching, though this is not essential. Our priority is very much to recruit the best classroom practitioners who can ensure our students arrive at the Academy exited about the day ahead and leave each day talking about the excellent learning they have experienced. 

Great Western Academy runs a successful enrichment program for all students from 3.10 to 4.15 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.

Additional benefits of working at GWA include:

• Average class sizes of 26 in years 7 to 11

• Excellent CPD opportunities

• State of the art facilities 

• Leading edge ICT, including a laptop provided for all staff

• Free Medical 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 with free parking on site 

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

If you have any questions before application please contact the recruitment email and we will respond speedily.

Applications should be submitted electronically to the recruitment email by 9am on Friday 10th May 2024. Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date. Please note we may interview before the closing date (and close the advert early) depending on the suitability, and number of, applicants.