Location: South Heath
Overview
Required: January 2025 or earlier
Term time only: Yes
Salary details: MPS/UPS plus fringe
Contract type: Fixed Term
Hours: Standard working hours
Closing date: 09/10/2025 09:00
Interviews to be held: 16 October 2025 - The Misbourne reserves the right to close and shortlist early, therefore early applications are encouraged. Please note all shortlisted applicants will be subject to a pre-employment check.
About us
The Misbourne is an 11-18 mixed school single-academy trust in the picturesque village of Great Missenden in the heart of the Chilterns. We have nearly 1100 students on roll, including a successful and growing Sixth Form. We are proudly non-selective and inclusive, ensuring that we live and breathe our values: we are a community that values learning, promotes kindness and strives for excellence in all we do. We are the Lead School for Careers in Bucks.
Our staff tell us they genuinely feel like part of a team; a team who are striving to help each student flourish both academically and personally. As our greatest asset, we place great emphasis on staff wellbeing evidenced in our Wellbeing Charter.
Excerpts from our successful 2022 Ofsted inspection include:
Pupils told inspectors that the clear and fair behaviour system helps them to behave well.
Relationships between staff and pupils are strong.
Pupils' conduct around the school is orderly and calm.
Pastoral care puts the child at the heart of everything the school does
We can offer you:
● An academy that puts wellbeing at the top of their priorities, evidenced by our Wellbeing Charter
● Students who are a pleasure to work with
● Great training and development opportunities
● An experienced, friendly, and collaborative team of staff
● A two-week October half-term
● Free access to our own fully-fitted gym (subject to opening hours)
● Cycle to Work Scheme
● Free on-site parking
About the role
Our values at The Misbourne for both students and staff are learning, kindness and excellence; these permeate everything we do, but start with our staff. At The Misbourne we acknowledge that teaching is a demanding profession and therefore looking after our staff is of highest priority. If you join our staff team, you will be part of a caring, kind and supportive group of professionals who really do share a sense of belonging and camaraderie. We actively look at ways to give staff time back, whether this be with our two week October half term, a personal ‘Headspace Day’, a flexible PPA which you can take at home every fortnight, or flexible use of gained time in the summer term.
We have a fully planned and resourced centralised curriculum across all subjects, meaning we do not expect teachers to go home and do individual planning. We have development time across the year so that curriculum teams can collaboratively plan and talk about teaching; continuing to develop professionally and reducing workload. We use the summer term to gain time to plan ahead, once again meaning that the summer holiday can indeed be a proper break from teaching. If you want to work in an academy with high regard and value placed on its staffing body, then please do come and visit us at The Misbourne.
It is an exciting time to work with the Science team - we have many new curriculum developments, combined with a range of co-curricular opportunities and trips. This is resulting in large numbers of students choosing to study the triple sciences at GCSE, along with ever-increasing numbers of students studying the sciences at A level.
The Science department consists of 8 dedicated Science labs, each of which is well equipped to deliver specialist teaching through to A Level. Each lab contains a newly installed interactive Promethean board. The Science team consists of 13 members of teaching staff covering biology, chemistry and physics specialisms. Three experienced Science Technicians work with the teaching staff to provide our students with as many practical opportunities as possible. Staff wellbeing is a priority, therefore up-to-date shared lesson slides and other resources are available.
At KS3 a broad range of science topics are taught to provide the foundation knowledge required for success in the sciences. At GCSE we follow the AQA Triple Science and Trilogy Science courses. At A Level, Biology and Chemistry follow the OCR A specifications, Physics follows the AQA specification.
The Science department works closely with our excellent careers team to take the lead in a wide range of STEM opportunities for students.
Recent experiences include:
-Year 9 trip to GE Healthcare
-KS3 involvement in the GirlsGetSet STEM programme
-Year 9 and 10 Johnson & Johnson STEM day
-A level trip to Reading University
-PPMA Best Virtual STEM Day
-GCSE Science Live! trip
-A level Education in Action trips
-A level Biology field trip
-Year 7 visit to The Big Bang Fair
About you
Would be helpful if a Physics specialist