French Teacher | Co-Educational Free School | Northampton

We require an engaging highly articulate French Teacher to deliver outstanding Modern Foreign Language (MFL) instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Operating within a rapidly growing Free School framework the successful candidate will facilitate a structured communication-led curriculum designed to foster deep grammatical fluency accurate pronunciation cultural literacy and confident spontaneous speaking skills preparing all pupils thoroughly for terminal GCSE French public examinations.

Our Free School operates as a pioneering co-educational secondary provider established to deliver a bespoke high-quality local education with an emphasis on academic excellence personal ambition and global citizenship. The campus boasts newly built technology-rich language classrooms collaborative multimedia learning suites and a forward-thinking communications faculty. Our behaviour management framework relies on an established culture of high expectations consistent routines and mutual respect maintaining a calm highly purposeful environment where pupils can confidently practice spoken language and engage in independent cultural research.

• Communication-Led MFL Instruction: Plan resource and deliver high-quality French lessons across all attainment pathways embedding consistent retrieval practice to cement phonics extensive vocabulary structures and complex tenses.

• Closing Lingual Attainment Gaps: Identify and target language learning barriers deploying structured scaffolding interactive digital listening resources and targeted literacy interventions to accelerate the progress of all pupils including those with Special Educational Needs (SEND).

• Rigorous Examination Preparation: Guide Year 11 cohorts systematically through the demands of terminal Foundation and Higher tier GCSE French papers teaching explicit strategies for the listening reading writing and formal speaking components.

• Data-Driven Progress Monitoring: Meticulously analyse formative assessment data mock speaking recordings and writing scripts to pinpoint specific grammatical weaknesses deploying immediate targeted conjugation and translation workshops.

• Community Pastoral Care: Fulfil full form tutor responsibilities within an established year group structure managing daily registration delivering global citizenship units and maintaining proactive supportive communication with families.

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or a recognised equivalent teaching credential paired with a strong honours degree in French Studies Modern Foreign Languages or a closely related linguistic discipline.

• Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress metrics in terminal public GCSE examinations across both Foundation and Higher tenses through structured high-impact language pedagogy.

• Flexible & Creative Mindset: An unwavering commitment to the ethos of a developing Free School demonstrating the patience clarity and adaptability required to build a close-knit learning community and inspire linguistic confidence in pupils of all abilities.

• East Midlands Logistics & E-Commerce Core: Based in the historic market town of Northampton the school capitalizes on a unique regional identity positioned within one of the UKs primary logistics distribution and automotive engineering corridors. The towns expanding international business parks enterprise zones and historical global trade links provide rich real-world applications for modern languages connecting classroom French directly to international supply chains corporate logistics and pan-European commercial enterprises.

• Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from excellent East Midlands transport infrastructure offering straightforward road commuting via the M1 motorway (Junctions 15 and 15a) the A45 and the A43 expressways. Public transit networks run seamlessly across Northamptonshire utilizing comprehensive local bus networks and Northampton railway station which provides regular high-frequency West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway services linking the school directly to Milton Keynes Rugby Birmingham and London Euston.

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