Second in English

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area? Join us as a Teacher, where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning, utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning, understands curriculum developments, and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.About the DepartmentThe English Department at Outwood Academy Brumby is a friendly and welcoming team made up of seven teachers and two one-to-one tutors all with a wide range of experience and skills. Several members of the team have leadership experience, whilst others are happy to hone their craft in the classroom and support newer staff. There are many opportunities for staff to develop a range of career opportunities within the school and the trust, making the English Department at Outwood Academy Brumby a fantastic place to develop your career.Teaching takes place in the department’s seven classrooms with every teacher having their own dedicated room. Every classroom has a visualiser and these are used extensively by the team. Some classrooms have large television screens and others interactive whiteboards. There is a library with a wide range of fiction to support students’ reading needs which is run by a full-time enthusiastic librarian.The curriculum has been redesigned for knowledge to be developed almost fully through the study of texts, and there has been great investment in new books. Chosen novels, poetry and plays are culturally interesting, ambitious and engaging, including How to be a Kid taught in Year 7 and My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece in Year 8. Alongside a range of contemporary fiction, pupils are also exposed to a range of other literary texts both fiction and non-fiction including Cultures poetry in Year 7, Language Change in Year 8, and Jekyll and Hyde in Year 9.There is a strong whole-school literacy strategy which aims to ensure that all students can gain the educational and personal benefits of reading. This includes reading in form time, Accelerated Reader and a variety of reading interventions for readers who are not yet proficient. The specialist literacy teaching assistants use the Ruth Miskin phonics programme to support emergent readers.As in all OGAT secondary academies, the department prepares students for Eduqas GCSE English Language and English Literature qualifications. The programme of study is fully resourced with high-quality materials produced by staff across the trust who know this specification well. We aim to make all our teachers ‘experts’ in preparing students for GCSE examinations, using our thorough and systematic methods devised over many years. We have the benefit of support from the trust’s team of expert English school improvement partners, who provide support, materials, advice, coaching and who model and team-teach in lessons alongside us to develop our expertise.If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Lisa Shipman, Head of Department via email: l.shipman@brumby.outwood.comFor more information and to apply online, please