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The government and LA obsession on SATs and league tables has severely damaged teaching generally and particularly the teaching of creative subjects such as music, PE and MFL.
We think that these creative subjects are extremely important, and in order to both protect them and promote their value, we timetable every Thursday as a Creative Day, and we employ specialist teachers to deliver these subjects to every year group. It's the children's favourite day!
We currently teach Spanish as our MFL. Last academic year, this was delivered by a qualified teacher who is multilingual. She returned to her native country in July. Since September, our MFL provision has been delivered by an Italian HLTA, who has worked across our and a partner school. She has now secured a role working in translation. Hence, we are trying to recruit a TA or teacher, who can teach MFL, across the school, every Thursday.
We deliver MFL to all year groups! KS2 classes are taught in 50 minute lessons every Thursday morning. You stay in one room and the year groups come to you. They rotate around PE, music, IT and MFL. In the afternoon, you spend 40 minutes or so teaching each of our KS1 classes, visiting their classes in turn.
The aim is to deliver fun filled MFL lessons which develop the language skills of our pupils, but also instill a love of another culture and a desire to learn about other countries. We would ideally like to continue to deliver Spanish, seeing that we have already done so for a number of years. But we would consider switching to French or Italian if that was your skill set.
We have very developed lesson plans and resources which you can use, so, you have everything you need in terms of power points etc. But you are also able to develop your own approach. We need you to be bubbly and to develop a love of languages in our children. You would have a TA in class with you to assist as much as you need. Certainly they would help whilst you get to know the children.
We would hope to be able to recruit someone who is child centred as we are, and who values a broad, enriched education for our children just as we do. We would discuss the pay scale with you, and obviously the pay would depend on whether you are a TA, HLTA or have QTS. We have no preference in that regard - we want someone who can enthuse our children and make them love the language they are learning.
Before Brexit, we had been involved in numerous Erasmus projects. We retain links to schools in Spain, Belgium and Germany. We will participate in Erasmus projects again once they re-start.
We would love to show you around the school and discuss the position in more detail.