Teacher of Humanities
What skills and experience we're looking for
Madeley School has an excellent reputation locally and is oversubscribed year on year. In light of this, we are now expanding to enable more amazing pupils to have the chance to attend our inspiring school. We need outstanding colleagues to join our brilliant team and can now offer this exciting new position.Madeley School currently has record breaking Progress 8 and Attainment results and our OFSTED report in December 2019 praised pupils’ exceptional attitudes to learning in a school where they achieve strong outcomes.
We wish to appoint a motivated and professional Teacher of Humanities to join our team on a maternity cover contract, working across our History, Geography, and Religion & Worldviews (RaW) departments. While each department operates independently, they collaborate closely to deliver a cohesive and enriching Humanities curriculum.
The successful candidate will primarily teach History and Religion & Worldviews (RaW) and will also serve as a form tutor. The departments have a strong track record of success, with a Value-Added score of +0.71 for Humanities in 2024, placing Madeley among the top-performing schools nationally.Students consistently achieve high grades across Humanities subjects, reflecting the departments' commitment to academic excellence.
We offer extensive CPD opportunities to support continuous professional development, including lesson visits, peer collaboration, and sharing of best practices. This position is also suitable for an Early Career Teacher seeking a supportive, collaborative environment, with potential opportunities for future leadership roles.
We are proud of our long history serving the local community and relish the challenge of preparing our students for their futures as leaders in the 21st. century. As a relatively small secondary school, we are uniquely placed to care for each child as an individual.We take pride in providing a friendly, nurturing and welcoming environment for learning for all students, regardless of background or prior achievement and where our students are given the skills, experiences and qualifications necessary for them to take charge of their own destinies.
Our relentless focus on ensuring the highest academic standards has placed us amongst the top performing schools in the area based on sustained improvement.
We strive to keep our core values at the heart of all we do on our collective mission of inspiring excellence
In addition to providing the highest quality teaching for successful learning in lessons, we are passionate about providing excellent enrichment opportunities beyond the classroom, so that all of our students have a rewarding and enjoyable time with us as they develop their interests and talents.
What the school offers its staff
In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life.We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital.
We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.
We are currently at an exciting point in their evolution, with collaboration at the heart of our collective endeavour. We don’t operate in silos: we value the power of the pack and strive to collaborate as a collective, ensuring no school or colleague is left behind.We are currently co-constructing an aligned curriculum across all EBacc curriculum subjects, to create a world class curriculum, rich in powerful knowledge and skills. This is driving up standards through the sharing of the very best practice, whilst allowing each school sufficient flexibility for autonomy to do what is right for their local context.
A by-product of this approach has been the reduction in planning workload for colleagues, meaning they can spend more time on the things that matter and fostering strong relationships with pupils and delivery of the curriculum.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on workingfull time, all year- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holidayrising to 39 daysafter 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help yougrow, contributeandflourishin your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute.In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.