Shipston High School
Warwickshire
Salary:
Grade: Main Scale/Upper Scale and TLR: 2.1 (£3,527.00)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 January 2026
Apply by:
26 September 2025
Job overview
Shipston High School is delighted to advertise this exiting new opportunity.
The post of second in department for Mathematics is a full time permanent position, teaching all ages and abilities up to GCSE level. The position carries a TLR in recognition of the management responsibility.
Shipston High School has a unique school atmosphere, arising from our high expectations and our student-centred ethos. It is an ethos in which our teachers are able to focus on the wellbeing and academic progress of our young people. As a result, both students and teachers flourish. This post offers the successful candidate an exceptional opportunity for career development and will be of interest to ambitious and experienced teachers.
In our search for an outstanding practitioner we are seeking a teacher with a commitment to academic excellence and high standards. The successful applicant will have a good knowledge and understanding of the teaching of Mathematics at both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 and will be able to demonstrate excellent pedagogy.
The mathematics department is highly successful. At GCSE in 2025, 78% gained 9 to 4 grades, notably ahead of the national average. Students make excellent progress in the department. The department is at the forefront of implementing recent curriculum and assessment changes; they are an effective unit. The successful candidate will be joining a strong and supportive team, and will be able to work with an outstanding senior leadership team to further develop provision.
Our students are our best advertisement. They are motivated, hard working and well behaved. In July 2023, Ofsted noted that 'pupils are mature, polite and considerate of others', further observing that 'Pupils show positive attitudes towards learning'.
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About Shipston High School
Shipston High School
Darlingscote Road, Shipston-on-Stour
Warwickshire
CV36 4DY
United Kingdom
'A small, high achieving school with a unique, student-centred ethos'
Shipston High School is a small, rural 11-16 mixed High School with a very special ethos and character. Our students are high achieving and increasingly successful.
The school itself is located on an attractive green-field site on the outskirts of Shipston on Stour in South Warwickshire. Our buildings are spacious and offer a wealth of specialist and general accommodation including floodlit tennis courts and access to a swimming pool and leisure facility on our site.
Visitors frequently remark on the distinctive ethos of Shipston High School. In particular, they praise the obvious energy and enthusiasm of staff and students; the excellent relations; and the happy and mutually respectful atmosphere. They also express admiration for the unusual confidence and maturity of our students and the way they rise to the challenge of taking on increasing levels of responsibility.
Teaching and learning
We put learning at the heart of everything we do. Staff have high expectations of all students whatever their backgrounds or abilities and we expect students to make the most of the many opportunities the school provides.
Class sizes are kept as small as possible so that we cater more effectively for every student's needs. We believe firmly in the importance of homework and independent study as important tools to help our students become successful, self-motivated learners
Resources for learning
The range and quality of our facilities ensure that teaching and learning is varied, interesting and successful. ICT facilities throughout the school have been increased and upgraded significantly during recent years.
All classrooms are equipped with the latest interactive audio visual technology and we have an excellent computer to student ratio which is well above the national average. Increasingly our students are learning in high quality, well-equipped subject environments.
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