Teacher of French (Maternity Cover), De Lacy Academy

De Lacy Academy are looking to appoint a Teacher of French to join our academy in November 2024 on a full time, temporary basis to cover Maternity Leave.

YOUR NEW ROLE

We have an exciting teaching opportunity and are looking for an outstanding, committed and motivated teacher to contribute to the development of teaching and learning and curriculum in our MFL department. This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious and proven classroom practitioner who can display a real passion for developing and inspiring the pupils in their care.

OUR VISION

At Delta Academies Trust we understand the importance of learning a modern foreign language and we believe that every single one of our pupils should have that opportunity. We have invested significant time, expertise, and money in the creation of an outstanding curriculum offer which has increased pupil engagement, and as a result the number of pupils studying MFL in our 19 secondary academies has risen dramatically.

OUR CURRICULUM

We have created carefully sequenced five year curriculum plans for both French and Spanish using the national curriculum and the key recommendations of the 2016 MFL Pedagogy Review, and we regularly update them. Each one is fully resourced, with detailed lessons prepared for you to adapt to the needs of your classes. We use an online coursebook to underpin our teaching, along with our trust knowledge organisers. Every unit of work includes a cultural topic to help instil a love of languages as well as promote a desire to get to know more about people from those countries. We subscribe to an online learning platform to support the learning of vocabulary. Perhaps our biggest and most impressive investment is in our team of modern language assistants. We currently have over 20 native speakers in our academies and our pupils love working with them!, Our Senior MFL director is a specialist in both French and Spanish and leads a team of two MFL directors and two lead teachers. They are all based in our academies working to support teachers and pupils on a daily basis. We recognise the value of high quality CPD and the director team run subject specific CPD every half term, meaning that staff from across our trust can meet to share best practice and stay up to date with research findings and national developments. Although our curriculum model is standard across our trust, we are all individuals, and you will have the opportunity to develop as a professional in your own right. We pride ourselves on recognising and developing talent and are passionate about sharing our love of teaching languages., Our director team are held in high regard and have worked with the DFE and the examination boards in consultation about the existing and new GCSEs. We are passionate about languages in any way, shape or form and five of our academies have joined the DFE Latin Centre of Excellence programme, forming a regional hub. We are also preparing to offer MFL ITT from September 2024 as a partner of Exchange Teacher Training.

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Here at De Lacy Academy we are on a journey of rapid improvement. We routinely rank amongst the highest performing schools in Wakefield and similar schools in the country. For example, in 2018 we were number 1 for similar schools in England and Wales.

With 725 pupils aged between 11 and 16 housed in a building that has benefited from much recent investment, De Lacy is a busy and vibrant place. We serve the ex mining area of Knottingley and draw increasingly from the surrounding areas. We are experiencing a period of unprecedented growth, for example in 2019 88 students left year 11 and 168 started in Y7. This was a similar picture in 2020.

• Financial, offering unlimited access to a huge range of discounts on holidays, days out, retailer and cashback deals inc. Curry's, John Lewis, Tesco and B&Q to name but a few.


• Lifestyle and Wellbeing, discounted & flexible gym memberships, eye care vouchers, cycle 2 work/Technology scheme, free annual flu jab and 24/7 access to a market leading Employee Assistance Programme providing expert information specialist advisors trained by Citizens Advice and access to professionally qualified counsellors accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.


• Motoring, access to an employee vehicle leasing scheme, discounted vehicle repairs and discounts on car/van hire.


• Pension, excellent employer/employee contributory pension scheme with the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS)


• Personal and professional, we offer a range of training and development opportunities for you to grow and develop.


• Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained.