Assistant Director of Mfl

**Salary**:
MPS to UPS plus TLR 2.1

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
September 2025 or sooner

31 January 2025

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us in the school’s journey towards ‘outstanding.’ The role of Assistant Director of MFL will focus on driving high quality teaching and learning strategies across the Modern Foreign Languages Faculty through coaching and developing staff, to maximise student outcomes.

We are keen to attract the right calibre of professional to work alongside our dedicated team of staff within our '**_Fleetwood Way_**;' a colleague who shares our vision and commitment to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a more traditional approach to teaching and behaviour.

Excellent teaching must sit alongside a carefully considered and sequenced curriculum, implemented successfully and consistently through a great school culture. We have a strong, yet developing behaviour system, where expectations and routines are explicitly taught and deliberately practised. We are creating a learning culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and respectful, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, this underpins everything. There needs to be relentless consistency with the implementation of our procedures and policies in every classroom, and overcommunication of the ‘why’ to all stakeholders, to help ensure impeccable behaviour.

**About**Fleetwood High School**:
**Fleetwood High School**
- Broadway, Fleetwood
- Lancashire
- FY7 8HE
- United Kingdom

+44 1253 876757

**Fleetwood High School**:
**_the school with a heart, in the town with a heart_**:
**Headteacher - Richard Barnes**

Our modern state of the art school is in the coastal town of Fleetwood, conveniently located on the stunning Fylde coast local to Lytham, Thornton, Poulton-Le-Fylde and with great motorway links to the Lake District, Manchester and Liverpool; making our school accessible to and from all of these areas.

The Fylde area has been recognised as one of ‘The Best Places to Live’ in a recent Sunday Times guide, with Fylde and Wyre being comprised of many quaint towns and villages. Its historic streets are full of many fashionable independent shops, restaurants and public houses. For more information on the local area please visit:
The school is slightly larger than average (1060 on roll) and is growing fast as the popularity of the school in the local community grows. Pupil numbers have almost doubled over the last 5 years and we are now oversubscribed.

We are also proud to boast an average class size of just 26 pupils.

The school was judged to be ‘Good’ by Ofsted in 2022 and has since continued on a further journey of rapid progress. These are exciting times for the school and it is an exciting time to be considering joining us. We are an associate member of Cidari Multi Academy Trust and, as such, we work closely and share values and approaches with St Georges C of E Academy in Blackpool and Baines School in Poulton-le-Fylde. We sometimes share staff, professional development and leadership opportunities.

We do things here the **‘Fleetwood Way’**, and our HEART values are at the centre of all we do. We have always seen ourselves as one big family here at Fleetwood High School, and that is reflected in our extremely low rate of staff turnover. Our team recognise the potential possessed by all our children, and they go the extra mile to make sure they realise that potential. This is a school where you can make a real difference.

**Values and vision**

Fleetwood High School is a community where the value of learning is recognised and pride in achievement is encouraged. Inspired through the culture of independent learning, students are expected to push the boundaries of their potential.

Our goal is for students to be happy and safe within a stimulating, well-ordered and challenging environment that promotes a healthy lifestyle. A climate of mutual respect and achievement, combined with excellent attendance, is embraced to create confident, articulate young people determined to make a positive contribution to their community.

Through an extensive range of partnerships, Fleetwood High School also seeks to develop key aspects of community life.

**Ofsted report**
- View Fleetwood High School’s latest Ofsted report