Lead Practitioner of Spanish

**Salary**

Lead Practitioner Pay Range, L1-L6 (5 point salary range) £50,025 - £55,593 FTE

**Contractual hours**

32.5

**Basis**

Full Time

**Job type**

Teaching

**Location**

Gloucester

**Job category**

Teacher

**Date posted**

05/02/2025

**Job reference**

GST-R0913

The Lead Practitioner in Spanish role is an exciting addition to the Gloucester academy team.

You will work with colleagues, Trustees, and parents/carers, in partnership, sustaining and improving the quality of education;
- To enable all students to realise their individual talents to the full
- To prepare all students for the changing demands of future adult life
- To encourage a view of education as an enjoyable lifelong process

Creating an appropriate working environment which promotes students’ aspirations to climb the mountain to the very best universities or professions.

Gloucester Academy has an exceptional track record of improvement with results last year making us the 11th most improved school in the country. In our latest Ofsted inspection Gloucester Academy achieved Outstanding in Personal Development and Good in every other category putting it above the vast majority of schools in the area. Our Ofsted result is a testament to the dedication of all staff in the school, the students and the support of the community. Gloucester Academy is an exceptional and incredibly successful school and is looking for like minded individuals who are committed to making a difference.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are _‘Always Learning’_.

To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.

**The Department**:
Our MFL department nurtures a love for languages for our students by focussing on Hispanic culture and a Conti EPI instruction method that promotes use of target language and successful production through chunking. The team has a positive outreach with the community with weekly support from local native speakers delivering conversation sessions to KS4 as well as strong connections with other MFL teams to collaborate on visits and events. We focus on building confidence and are passionate about empowering our pupils to use their language to communicate and connect with the wider world. We enrich the lives of our pupils through challenge, extracurricular activities and a well-planned curriculum carefully interwoven to encourage retrieval, progress and success. We teach Spanish to all year groups giving each Year group 5 hours per fortnight curriculum time with Year 11 receiving an extra hour a fortnight from 3.00 - 4.00pm on either a Monday or Friday. KS4 study Edexcel Spanish. We run community languages and currently have 12 different languages taking their GCSEs in Year 10 with the support of the local community and members of staff in the school. As a school we are open to discussing introducing another language for our students.

**Resources**:
In each classroom there is a visualiser which the MFL team uses during the input part of every lesson. Each student has their own mini whiteboard enabling teachers to assess their class with ease.

We use Sparx with our Y7 through to Y11. Students have weekly homework tasks set on these platforms, the tasks are centred around retrieval practice.

The team works on and embed the latest mathematical pedagogy into our continually developing shared lesson bank. Each lesson has been designed with a retrieval segment to start the lesson, the main body of the lesson focuses on _I Do, We Do, You Do_, with students completing at least 20 minutes of silent independent work to master their learning.

**Curriculum**:
Students are examined through Edexcel, and our Schemes of Learning allow for a seamless transition between KS3 and KS4, with topics mapped out from one year to the next. Assessments are completed during the school assessment windows, with time built into the schemes of learning for students to work on their individual gaps of knowledge. All Year 11s attend a weekly period 6, this time is used for exam practice and to support students with essential exam topics.

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not restrictive and the post holder may be re