English Teacher (part time)

Role: Teacher of English

Academy: Outwood Grange Academy

Start Date: 01/09/2026

Salary (Actual Salary): 32916 - 51048

Working Pattern: 4 days per week (3 days considered)

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area Join us as a Teacher where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.

This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning understands curriculum developments and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.

Welcome from the Principal:

Thank you for your interest in Outwood Grange Academy.

I am so pleased you are looking at this fantastic opportunity to work at Outwood Grange Academy. Our larger-than-average 11-19 academy is in the heart of Outwood Wakefield with easy access to major towns and cities via the motorway network.

As the Founding Academy of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust we embody the organisations core ethos: making students our fundamental priority raising standards and transforming life chances.

I am truly proud of the work we do to ensure all aspects of education are of the highest possible quality. This is driven by our staffs unwavering dedication their commitment to enabling every student to achieve their potential. We are passionate about the importance of CPD for our teachers as they are our greatest resource and are best placed to inspire students.

If this is a vision that resonates with you I look forward to meeting you to discuss what you have to offer.

The English Department at Outwood Grange is a large successful team made up of 20 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.

We believe our success speaks for itself as we are well above the national average for the number of students achieving at a Grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs. We are also proud to have been awarded Gold Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award. We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first raising standards and transforming lives into practice.

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