Teacher of Spanish

Meols Cop High School is in the heart beat of Southport and plays an integral part within the local community. We prioritise more than just academic achievement; we instil a profound sense of values and ethics in all our students, as part of our school motto 'Brokering Aspirations' . Anchored by its four foundational pillars: Academic Excellence, Values Driven, Professional Standards, and Skills and Experiences, Meols Cop fosters a holistic learning environment that prepares students for future success.

Meols Cop is a successful school at the heart of the local community. We are committed to providing stimulating, challenging and engaging learning experiences for our students and invest heavily in professional development as we believe 'Teacher improvement is school improvement' Meols Cop High School will offer you extensive career development and bespoke CPD opportunities. Staff are specialists in their areas with strong links to Maths Hubs work, STEM and Research school training programmes. Moreover, we are keen to ensure the wellbeing of our staff, and our Workload Charter highlights our commitment to this. At Meols Cop we celebrate and support collaboration with local businesses, charities and community groups within the local area, creating meaningful partnerships that benefit both our students and the broader community.

We believe that instilling values such as honesty, empathy, respect, and resilience is essential for students to succeed not just academically but also in their personal and professional lives. At Meols Cop we are committed to ensuring that our young people have the skills, qualifications and characteristics to lead a successful life.

We provide a curriculum that will challenge them academically, that will allow them to develop as citizens of the world and to undertake experiences that will allow them to explore passions and make informed choices about their futures. The successful candidate will take a lead role in making this become a reality through developing a culture amongst our staff and students of high expectations and high standards.

We would encourage you to look at our website, performance tables and OFSTED reports to ensure that Meols Cop High School is a school that you feel would be suitable for your professional development. Meols Cop High School is part of Southport Learning Trust and benefits of working within the Trust include access to Merseyside Pension Fund, a cycle to work scheme and a private health and wellbeing service. In addition, as part of Sefton's admissions policy children of staff where the member of staff has been employed at a school within the Southport Learning Trust for two or more years at the time at which the admission application for the school is made, their children will be considered for a priority placement at Meols Cop High School.

Reasons why you may wish to join our Meols Cop High School learning community:

• We are an oversubscribed school where staff are valued, supported, and allowed to develop, encouraged to innovate and given every opportunity to enjoy their teaching and share ideas across the curriculum. Our increasing numbers have meant that we are able to employ extra teachers and expand our curriculum.
• All staff experience extensive professional development opportunities If you are an ECT, you will be given a subject mentor, SLT mentor and be offered a range of in-house coaching and CPD opportunities.
• You may be a learning tutor responsible for the welfare and progress of approximately 25 students. We work amazingly hard to support our students. They are our greatest resource.
• We are passionate about staff wellbeing and take steps to ensure that staff are supported in reducing their workload through our Workload Charter. This is through centralised detentions, collaborative department planning, limited data collection, a sensible marking policy and opportunities for staff voice. Through our Meols Cop Principles of Teaching, we have a clear approach emphasis on evidence informed practice to ensure students get the best possible outcomes.

ABOUT US

Martin Davis Headteacher Meols Cop High school is a truly special place to work. Please don't just take our word for it - interested applicants are strongly encouraged to visit us, meet our team and most importantly, get to know our incredible students. To organise a tour ahead of application, please contact PA to the leadership team, Miss Sarah Lightbown on recruitment@meolscop.co.uk

In our Spanish department, every person's opinion counts and is valued. Student voice is encouraged and listened to which improves and shapes our teaching and learning. Departmentally our staff have a passion to provide students with a desire to want to learn more, and build an enthusiasm for learning not only the Spanish language but also an understanding of the cultures and customs associated with life in the Spanish speaking world. KS3 Spanish equips students with the skills and vocabulary to be able to confidently communicate, asking and answering questions whilst engaging in extended conversations. Students build up these skills through the use of sentence builders and topic specific workbooks, following the EPI method of teaching. KS4 builds on the foundation knowledge gained at KS3 following the Edexcel specification. It develops and strengthens students communication skills through more advanced and authentic resources, whilst encouraging the use of more complex vocabulary and structures. We have an ever-changing, fully resourced SOW within the department which is easily adaptable to meet the needs of all students, we constantly strive to provide the very best educational experiences that will ensure every student's success, whatever their individual educational needs. We also aim to provide extracurricular opportunities for all with our whole school European day of languages celebrations, links to exchange students from the local international language school and an annual trip to Spain.

4 essential skills that you will need if you are a successful applicant and that we will look for in your application and interview are:

• We want our teachers to challenge our students in lessons so that they make progress beyond their targets and aspire to achieve new, and possibly unexpected, levels of potential.
• Our students need to be interactive learners, given responsibility for their own learning progress and self-assessment. Can you motivate them to achieve this?
• We have a rich and varied community of learners with specialist bases for aspergers' students and dyslexic students. Can you plan lessons and offer pastoral care that allow all students to achieve?
• Our students will interview successful applicants and watch them teach. They tell us that they like caring, friendly, fun teachers who are firm but fair, who make their lessons interactive and exciting, who will help them if needed with oral and written feedback BUT most of all they like people who seem genuinely interested in them and their school! Could that be you?

5 vital pieces of information about the Spanish department that the staff would like you to know:

• You will be expected to teach Spanish in both key stages. We begin our GCSE courses in Year 10. We expect you to be familiar with and be aware of the most recent subject developments and innovative teaching. You will have the highest expectations of our students and your teaching will support student progression to sustain and improve our current results.
• You will have access to a classroom with an interactive whiteboard and access to the ICT resources, including student laptops.
• You will have the support and encouragement of your department colleagues but will also be able to access all areas of support available via our cross-curricular CPD inset.
• We have a Behaviour for Learning system that will allow you to teach and the students to learn. We want you to enjoy working with our staff and students. Your professional development matters to us

How to apply

Completed application forms to be sent to RECRUITMENT@MEOLSCOP.CO.UK