Teacher of Mathematics

We are seeking a dynamic, high achieving graduate with excellent communication skills to join our successful and innovative team, with teaching responsibility across the full range of age and ability. Tailored personal development supported with whole College Professional learning.

An outstanding opportunity to contribute to our strong co-curricular program through our College community of Houses and develop your teaching skills in preparation for future roles.

With a strong track record of results, excellent partnerships with feeder primaries and progression to university which Ofsted declare to be “impressive”, our College is first choice for students in Bradford.

At St Bede’s and St Joseph’s we teach students to think critically and logically in mathematics lessons. The aim of this is to prepare students with the mathematical competency that will allow our students to thrive in any community and in any future career.

Mathematics is a key and exciting subject area within the College where all mathematics colleagues work hard on developing good attitudes towards mathematics which is paying dividends across every subject in the College. Developing confident, resilient mathematicians with skills for life begins in Year 7 and is further developed in our student centred 5-year curriculum.

• KS3 Maths – Year 7 – 9

In KS3, the three-year curriculum is designed so that all students are learning the same topic at the same time. Teachers understand ways to progress through a topic by delving deeper, making links with other areas of mathematics and by providing challenge through opportunities to reason and problem solve.

Students are set from Year 9 and continue to be set through all other year groups. Class sizes vary but characteristically top sets are larger and classes reduce in size, allowing lower sets with smaller numbers. Classes are organised into half-year groups with two top sets in each year.

• KS4 Maths – Year 10-11

Problem-solving is at the heart of the new curriculum and opportunities to develop problem solving and reasoning skills in mathematics are embedded within each unit of work.

• KS5 – Year 12-13

Staff prepare personalised lessons to meet the needs of every student in their class.

For the A Level course there are four classes; two. in Year 12 and two in Year 13, with a number of students studying Further Maths in each year group. Both GCSE and A Level course follow the Edexcel specifications