MPS/UPS - Outer London

Full Time, Part Time, Permanent

Jan 2025 or April 2025

29 November 2024

Salary: Main/UPS
Hours: Full-time/ Part-time / Permanent
Laurel Park School is the new school for Palmers Green and Southgate.
The foundation of our new school is built upon school staff and students having positive relationships and valuing each young person for their uniqueness and individual talents. Here at Laurel Park School we acknowledge the needs of all our students and will strive not only for academic success but to ensure that we develop the whole child, in order to prepare them for 21st century life. Our overall curriculum intent is based on four key areas that operate throughout the school:

• My Curriculum
• My Character
• My Culture
• My Community

The ethos of our new school is grounded in our core values of Integrity, Determination, Excellence and Ambition, which permeate through everything we do. We are a school that has classrooms full of happy and polite young people ready to work hard and aim high.
We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and highly effective Teacher of Spanish. Like us, you will be dynamic, innovative and hardworking. You will also have exceptional knowledge, a desire to positively impact upon our students and a firm commitment to high academic achievement. Above all you will be dedicated to giving all our students an outstanding education.
The combination of impressive facilities, a broad and balanced curriculum, a passionate and dedicated teaching staff, supported by a strong leadership team guarantees our pupils’ success and enjoyment in their time at Laurel Park. Every child is understood for the person they are and will become. They are supported through their challenges, and their accomplishments are celebrated.
What’s unique about us:

• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High quality training and support
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes via CSSC
• Early Wednesday finish for students so staff have high quality CPD, but "Wonderful Wednesdays" will also be the slot for meetings and parent evenings
• Two week October half term
• Live marking in the classroom - the there and then feedback is the most powerful
• All staff have a well-being day - you can choose any day across the academic year
• Enhanced PPA time
• All staff can have a free school meal everyday, cooked by our great Chef educator
• An excellent pastoral team who oversee and manage behaviour so that teachers can just focus on their teaching
• Staff socials and quizzes

Every Wednesday afternoon the staff receive professional development training. The range of training on offer is vast including - supporting EAL students, Using Artificial Intelligence for reducing workload, safeguarding, managing behaviour, phonics and adaptive teaching strategies. We meet termly to share good practice through Teach Meets and every teacher chooses a Teaching & Learning working group to develop a greater understanding of that area. These groups include foci like ‘raising achievement of boys’, ‘developing expectations for exercise books’ and ‘developing extended writing skills’.
Closing date for applications is midnight Friday 29 November 2024

As soon as visitors come to Laurel Park, they are struck by the warmth and family feel of the school where students and staff are happy and successful. We are committed to working with talented individuals who share our vision and values and celebrate the best in everyone. Nurturing the best talent in diverse roles is what we are about.

The combination of impressive facilities, a broad and balanced curriculum, a passionate and dedicated teaching staff, supported by a strong leadership team guarantees our pupils’ success and enjoyment in their time at Laurel Park. Every child is understood for the person they are and will become. They are supported through their challenges, and their accomplishments are celebrated.
What’s unique about us:

• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High quality training and support
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes via
  CSSC
• Early Wednesday finish for students so staff have high quality CPD, but wonderful Wednesdays will also be the slot for meetings and parent evenings
• Two week October half term
• Live marking in the classroom - the there and then feedback is the most powerful
• All staff have a well-being day - you can choose any day across the academic year
• Enhanced PPA time
• All staff can have a free school meal everyday, cooked by our great Chef educator
• An excellent pastoral team who oversee and manage behaviour so that teachers can just focus on their teaching
• Staff socials and quizzes

Supporting high quality teaching is pivotal in improving children’s outcomes.

Here at Laurel Park School your Training and Development is important to us. There are opportunities to develop and grow yourself and we encourage that you take positive steps to embrace these opportunities.
Every Wednesday afternoon the staff receive professional development training. The range of training on offer is vast including - supporting EAL students, Using Artificial Intelligence for reducing workload, safeguarding, managing behaviour, phonics and adaptive teaching strategies. We meet termly to share good practice through Teach Meets and every teacher chooses a Teaching & Learning working group to develop a greater understanding of that area. These groups include foci like ‘raising achievement of boys’, ‘developing expectations for exercise books’ and ‘developing extended writing skills’.