Overview
WHY CHOOSE US?
Do you want to be part of a community which offers a positive, exciting and rewarding place to work? Hillview School for Girls is a popular, high achieving, non-selective school based in Tonbridge, Kent. Working for us will give you the opportunity to work alongside enthusiastic subject specialists and engage with creative pedagogical development.
Our calm and focused classroom environments, where students are keen to learn, achieve and appreciate their teachers’ dedication and support, are the main reasons why teachers love to work at Hillview.
We are seeking to appoint a talented Teacher of Computing to teach across Key Stages. If you are passionate about inspiring the next generation of digital creators and problem solvers in a well-resourced department, we would love to hear from you.
In partnership with the Curriculum Lead for Computer Science, you will:
* Deliver a dynamic and inspiring Computer Science provision
* Support students to high levels of success
* Consider the school’s ‘Pure potential’ belief and how this can be interpreted within Computing, through high expectations and aspirations for the students
* Develop pedagogical approaches to Computing
Why join our Computing Department
* Dedicated lab with 31 PCs—your own room every lesson; Thonny for Python; Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Applications
* Coherent KS3 curriculum built around NCCE units with TuringLab programming resources—ready to teach and room to innovate
* Opportunity to shape Key Stage 5, as we currently teach Computing: Application Development and are expanding with IT: Data Analytics
* Creative environment where Computing thrives through design, media and problem solving
* Big on enrichment—run (or reinvent) a club, competition or trip (e.g., FIRST LEGO League, CyberFirst Girls Competition—or pitch your own idea)
* Supportive culture and high expectations for girls’ participation and progression in tech
In return, we offer an exciting and rewarding place to work. We are a supportive, collaborative school and have a strong record of developing our teachers towards middle and senior leadership.
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