One to One English Tutor

One to One Tutor - English

Outwood Grange Academy has a fantastic opportunity for candidates who are well qualified in English to help students secure the best qualifications in English of which they are capable. As a One to One Tutor you will be working with students on a one-to-one basis or in small groups to help consolidate their skills or work on identified areas to develop and you will be supported by the Head of English and teachers within the department. This is a Casual Role on a temporary basis that will end on 31 August 2026.

We are looking for an energetic enthusiastic and inspiring candidate with a real passion for English. We offer an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and motivated team. An excellent knowledge and understanding of the subject is essential. You must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of students first. Applications are invited from both newly qualified and experienced professionals.

In this role you will be expected to deliver intervention programmes to students in collaboration with department staff using your understanding to discuss underperformance from students and in turn develop suitable intervention materials to improve the student performance. We are seeking candidates with extensive knowledge on the secondary English curriculum to accelerate students understanding that can support them in their lessons. Whilst this role is advertised as typically part time there is an element of flexibility in assigning hours to best meet the needs of the academy curriculumthismay vary through the course of the academic yearbut will be discussedas part of the application process.

We welcome applicants from candidates who:

• Have qualified teacher status
• Ability to work with students up to GSCE
• Hold a degree in English
• Has a positive can-do attitude to attain our goal of Students First and to help raise standards and transform lives of students every day.

The English Department at Outwood Grange Academy is a large successful team made up of 19 teachers and three one-to-one tutors. The department is friendly and supportive and staff in the team put the attainment of students at the heart of their discussions and all they do. There is a combination of some very experienced teachers and a number of ECTs and those who are new to the profession are nurtured by a mentor from within the team. Whilst there are a range of career opportunities within the school and the trust the English Department at Outwood Grange Academy is also a fantastic place to start your career and we are excited about helping staff to flourish in the classroom.

We have a large allocation of classrooms with full-time staff teaching entirely or almost entirely in one room. Classrooms have video projectors large television screens and visualisers which are housed upon bespoke lecterns to enable staff to run the room effectively when presenting from the front. The library is also part of the English Department not only in a physical sense but also because we believe that reading is at the centre of what we do.

Because of our belief in the vital importance of reading the department has developed a KS3 curriculum where learning branches from a range of engaging and culturally interesting texts. Students will study three plays by William Shakespeare over years 7 to 9 including a history tragedy and comedy in order to present them with an ambitious curriculum that prepares them for both GCSE and A Level study. Contemporary texts and their reception are reviewed yearly in order to evaluate them for relevance and rigour. Children have a weekly Immersive Read lesson and the team have shared the responsibility - and pleasure - of choosing the texts for this; they range from versions ofDraculato the more recentThe House with Chicken Legs.

There is a strong whole-school literacy strategy which aims to ensure that all students can gain the educational and personal benefits of reading. This includes reading in form time Accelerated Reader and a variety of reading interventions for readers who are not yet proficient. The specialist literacy teaching assistants use the Ruth Miskin phonics programme to support emergent readers.

As in all OGAT secondary academies the department prepares students for Eduqas GCSE English Language and English Literature qualifications. The programme of study is fully resourced with high-quality materials produced by staff across the trust who know this specification well. We aim to make all our teachers experts in preparing students for GCSE examinations using our thorough and systematic methods devised over many years. We have the benefit of support from the trusts team of expert English directors who provide support materials advice coaching and who model and team-teach in lessons alongside us to develop our expertise. As an indication of our success each year our students gain on average a progress score of around +0.5.

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