Application Pack: Teacher of French Application Pack Teacher of History Closing date: 23.3.2021 Start date: 1.9.2021 Apply online at www.trinity-school.org/vacancies 1 Application Pack: Teacher of History Welcome to Trinity School I feel the teachers have a real understanding of how to get the most out of my son and they are incredibly encouraging and inspirational. He comes home happy every single day Parent of 1st Year pupil Thank you for your interest in working at Trinity School. The resources of the Whitgift Foundation enable the Exceptional teaching is fundamental to our mission and School to offer outstanding facilities. The original 1965 we look forward to welcoming an outstanding candidate building has been greatly extended, including the Mitre to join our team. Theatre and the Shaw Building, which houses the Art, Design and Sports departments. Most recently we Trinity School is an HMC independent day school with completed a new multi-million pound classroom block, a c.1000 students, aged 10 - 18. The school is all boys up first class Performing Arts venue in the Trinity Concert to Year 11 but since September 2011 we have welcomed Hall, a refurbished swimming pool, a state-of-the-art Sixth girls into a thriving co-educational Sixth Form. The school Form Centre, a Sports pavilion and a Music School in is one of three governed by the Whitgift Foundation 2017. (founded in 1596 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift), the others being Whitgift School for boys The main ages of admission are 10, 11, 13 and 16. Entry and Old Palace School for girls. is by examination and each year there are about 800 applicants for 180 places. Parents whose income falls Trinity has been on its present site since 1965, when it below a specified threshold are eligible for a bursary and moved from the centre of Croydon to a new complex of this enables the School to attract pupils from a wide range buildings and playing fields in the Green Belt. The of socio-economic backgrounds. Through the support of grounds are some 27 acres in extent, and there are the Foundation and our own Bursary Fund, almost £2m a additional playing fields in Sandilands, ten minutes’ walk year is provided for this. 50% of the student body receives from the school. some form of fee remission. Apply online at www.trinity-school.org/vacancies 2 Application Pack: Teacher of History What matters to us What kind of young people will our students become through being here, what can they achieve, and what will they choose to do to make a positive impact on the world when they leave us? We want our students to become outstanding young people. We are ambitious for them and the difference they can make, and we want to give them the experiences that will promote the personal qualities, the leadership, the qualifications and the self-confidence to believe it. It is important too, that they leave us without any sense of entitlement, ready to enter and contribute well to all kinds of communities with the humility that acknowledges there is always more to learn. We can open doors for them to the world’s best universities, colleges and careers, and equally they can learn the skills and responsibility to care for others. The formal aims of the School are described fully on our website, but at the heart of our day-to-day work there are four particular strengths that are key to our ethos, and these enable our students both to thrive in their time at school and to become the young people we hope they will be: • Caring deeply: every individual must feel known, valued and supported in our school community; • Exceptional learning: our teachers are outstanding and our curriculum is challenging; • Joining in: participation and excellence matter equally, across a rich array of activities; • Looking outwards: we are committed to our students engaging meaningfully with the world beyond school. It is important that our School both reflects and connects meaningfully with the community around it. Our students should leave Trinity having met and enjoyed working with others from a wide range of backgrounds, both inside and outside the school, as it is in this context that they can properly understand both the opportunities and responsibilities they have. Apply online at www.trinity-school.org/vacancies 3 Application Pack: Teacher of History Teaching at Trinity The School is divided into the Lower School (Years 6 to 8), drama studio. There are also many societies for students Middle School (Years 9 to 11) and the Sixth Form, with of all ages, and regular visits are arranged to each Year Group overseen by a Head of Year. concerts, plays and exhibitions. Core subjects at GCSE are English, English Literature, up There is a CCF, and large numbers participate in the Duke to two Modern Languages, Mathematics, and three of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. The School’s sporting Sciences. These and three or four other optional subjects reputation is very strong, with regular national and are taken at the end of the Fifth Form. Most students in the international success. The main sports we offer are Sixth Form study three or four subjects to A level, within athletics, cricket, cross-country, hockey, football, netball, our Diploma programme, which also expects every student rounders, rugby, squash, swimming, tennis and water polo. to undertake an EPQ or our internal essay prize. Over the The School has also recently built a climbing wall, and golf, past 8 years over 90% of all grades at A level have been sailing and cycling are popular. at A* to B. At GCSE this year, over 50% of results were 9 grades and over 90% of grades were 9, 8 or 7. This will Trinity is a member of the Trinity Group, comprising twenty- have placed Trinity as one of the top ten boys’ independent two leading independent schools in the South-East, whose schools nationally. Almost all students go on to further Heads of Department and other senior staff meet annually. education or apprenticeships, with normally around 10% of We are very committed to teacher training running our own the Upper Sixth gaining offers from Oxford or Cambridge. Trinity Graduate Training Programme and we host students Trinity was placed 40th nationally in the Parent Power each year from the Institute of Education. Professional league table in 2018. learning forms a central part of working here. Trinity has a vibrant co-curricular life. There is a generous The Whitgift Foundation has its own salary scale which is staffing ratio, and all members of the teaching staff assist well above the National Scale. Lunches are free and with activities, of which there is an exceptionally wide facilities at school are open to staff and their families during range. Members of the support staff can also contribute holidays as well as term time. Children of members of staff their skills and enthusiasms in this way. Music at Trinity may be eligible for fee discounts. has an international reputation, and each year the Trinity Boys’ Choir is involved in a varied programme of Further details about Trinity may be found on our demanding professional work. Drama flourishes and the website www.trinity-school.org. school has two fully equipped modern theatres as well a Apply online at www.trinity-school.org/vacancies 4 Application Pack: Teacher of History Training and Professional Development At the heart of all that happens in the School is exceptional Curriculum & Teaching learning so it is fundamental that there should be the best History is taught to all boys in the Lower School (Years 6- possible training and professional learning opportunities 9) for two periods a week. In Year 6 the focus is on for all our staff. Above all we want to create a culture in developing an understanding of what it means to study school where creative, innovative and talented teachers History. Through Years 7-9, pupils broadly follow the can listen to other practitioners, reflect on their practice, National Curriculum, but with additional units of study and so inspire our students. focusing on ‘Empire’ (Year 8) and the period of decolonisation after 1945 (Year 9), which has a particular For those new to teaching we provide both initial teacher focus on Africa. The focus of the teaching is very much training and statutory NQT Induction. We will support, both focused on independent research skills in order to financially and in terms of time, those wishing to take a encourage pupils to be creative and resilient in their PGCE whilst we will do the same for those seeking to approach to the subject. The IGCSE is a popular option develop their knowledge and skills via academic in the Fourth and Fifth Forms. We follow the Edexcel qualifications. specification. Current units are Democracy and Dictatorship: Germany 1918-1945; Civil Rights in the USA The School makes a considerable financial commitment 1945-74; The Vietnam War 1945-75, and either China each year to staff development. There are regular training 1900-1989 or the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1919-2012. All opportunities run in school, mostly led by our own staff, and pupils additionally complete an extended essay on the teachers can take part in research for learning projects or Cold War between Year 10 and 11. apply for our teacher development posts. Equally, we value the role of students in creating the best teaching and We follow the History A level offered by OCR, and our learning environment, and we expect all staff to engage boys and girls study a balance of History between the with their students in this way.