Teacher of Latin

A compelling and distinctive opportunity to join the founding team of staff at Brook Mead Academy: help shape the future of Leicester’s newest secondary school.

Part time Teacher of Latin to start late August 2024 - MPS / UPS

The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) is a family of thirteen primary and secondary schools all based in Leicester and Leicestershire. Together, we seek to Make A Positive Difference to the lives of the children attending our schools. Brook Mead Academy is the newest school in TMET, following on from the successful opening of Castle Mead Academy in September 2019. Brook Mead also draws on the outstanding provision enjoyed at our flagship secondary school, Rushey Mead Academy, which far exceeds national averages for progress and attainment, placing it year after year in the top 5% of schools nationally.

We know that education has the power to transform lives. At Brook Mead, we are Building Better Futures Together Staff are united in a mission to excel and secure the best possible future for each scholar by laying the foundations for high academic achievement and all-round personal development. To signal our ambition for our scholars, we offer LATIN to all in Year 7 and then as an option subject at GCSE. We are one of the very few state schools who offer Latin in such a way. We have a curriculum in place and are looking for a new teacher to build upon the foundations lain.

We believe that knowledge is power and access to powerful knowledge is the right of every child. We are looking for subject enthusiasts and experts ready to take our scholars on an exciting journey through their subject, ensuring they leave with a treasure trove of knowledge and skills which will be theirs forever to use for the betterment of themselves and the world. If you love your subject and want to impart that knowledge to the next generation, please apply.

• This is a unique opportunity to join a passionate teaching a glorious curriculum in a brand-new school which will move to a state-of-the-art new building in 2025.

• Routines throughout the school are consistently applied, making all teachers feel empowered to impart knowledge and inspire our scholars

• There is a consistent school wide behaviour policy applied by all with detentions centralised and staff on hand to support.

• Weekly subject team meetings focus on knowledge enhancement, planning to the detail, crafting common explanations, questions and anticipating misconceptions.

• Professional learning is built into the week rather than bolted on, underpinned by Dylan Wiliam’s dictum that “Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.”

• Individual instructional coaching is a universal entitlement.

• Curriculum is king with the discipline of each subject respected and fostered so that scholars really can benefit from the best thought, said and created in every field of human endeavour.

• Our pedagogical approach has clarity, simplicity and power, following our BMA Direct Instruction framework.

• Staff wellbeing is a priority with constant vigilance around workloads.

• As part of The Mead Educational Trust, you are able to work with esteemed colleagues at Castle Mead, Rushey Mead, Kibworth Mead and Orchard Mead, as well as colleagues in our primary schools.

• Practice is research informed in every area of work and we focus on a few key priorities rather than be seduced by gimmicks and quick fixes.

Join us to be build better futures for our scholars to ensure they have a great education and real choices in life.

Closing Date: 1st May 2024 at 9.00 am.

Interviews: May 2024

Position Start Date: August 2024

Application Pack including Job Description and Person Specification, Teacher of Latin, Brook Mead Academy

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.

Brook Mead Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.