Teacher of English

The English department is a stable team. We have five full-time teachers, three part-time teachers and a team of teaching assistants who work consistently within English. We are a supportive and friendly team who work collaboratively on all aspects of teaching and learning.

Over the last few years, the school has grown and is now oversubscribed with first choices. Our vacancy for a Teacher of English provides a superb opportunity for a talented and excellent English teacher to join our team. We support every member of the team to continually develop and become highly skilled, reflective practitioners, and we look to open doors for everyone to ensure their continued professional development.

Our aim as an English department is to provide an excellent English education for all of our students. We want to inspire our Oakmoor learners to become life-long learners, writers and speakers, through their knowledge of English and accurate use of it in their own communication.

Our fully resourced English curriculum is designed to provide students with the core knowledge they need for success in English, both at school and in later life. It is planned to maximise their cognitive development and develop the whole person.

We hope that by exposing students to a rich and diverse canon of texts, chosen from a wide variety of contexts, voices and time periods, we can enable our students to appreciate and participate in the full richness of the human experience.

Our Key Stage 3 curriculum has been redeveloped and fully resourced in order to integrate evidence-based practice, with greater opportunities for subject knowledge and skills to be layered and connected through the years. Subject knowledge in our department is focused on how writers write and how readers read. In addition, we are trialling a drama-based approach to Shakespeare, guided by bespoke CPD and support from the RSC. Currently our students explore three different Shakespeare plays in Key Stage 3 that build the knowledge they need to be successful at Key Stage 4.

The curriculum in Key Stage 4 ensures that all students have the skills to succeed in their examinations, covering the content first before working on examination and revision skills in Year 11. The curriculum is engaging and thought-provoking for students, with carefully selected literature texts that offer rich intertextual links to develop critical thinking and engagement.

All of our classes in every year group are streamed, allowing teachers to plan adaptively, to offer high challenge and high support for all learners.