About the company

Lady Eleanor Holles International School has been founded to provide students in Foshan and the rest of Guangdong province with the opportunity to experience a British curriculum, learning style and environment, combining high academic standards with a wide range of extra-curricular activities. The school will be a dynamic, inspirational and joyful learning community where boys and girls enjoy working in a creative and collaborative environment.

State of the art classroom and extra-curricular facilities, combined with carefully designed boarding facilities, will attract students from Foshan, Guangdong Province and Southern China. When full, Lady Eleanor Holles International School Foshan (LEHF) will educate 850 students from age 6 to 18.

The School, opened in September 2021, is a joint venture with Trumptech, a leading provider of education services in China and Hong Kong, and Lady Eleanor Holles School, one of England’s oldest and most successful girls’ schools.

Following the tradition of our sister school in the UK, LEHF is a place of opportunity, challenge and friendship; a place for students and staff to take risks and become bold; a place to discover passions and talents; a place that nurtures remarkable people. Our goal is that LEHF students become expert learners, unafraid to tackle new and challenging ideas, prepared to take risks, and able to learn from failure.

We encourage our students to:

· be exactly who they are, whatever their current interests or future aspirations.

· benefit from the warmth, respect, and support of the entire School community as they stretch themselves to become their best, most confident selves, as students, and as citizens of the world.

·  have the freedom to experiment, express opinions, explore and take on new challenges.

·  be supported by strong role models and inspired by their peers.

·  find confidence and strength and, acquire and build the skills they need to succeed throughout their lives.

Job description

I. Job Responsibilities
As a teacher of Biology, you will:

Leading Learning & Teaching:

• Put students’ learning and welfare at the centre of all their practice and decision making.
• Have a clear vision for effective learning and teaching across the subject that reflects and complements whole school goals and guiding statements.
• Model excellent classroom practice.
• Have a clear understanding of what excellence looks like in the subject area and set standards that support everyone in aiming for this.
• Maintain an active critical interest in educational research and debate and promote discussion and training around this within the department.
• Manage and evaluate effective systems for the assessment and tracking of learning, as well as implementing a range of sustainable intervention strategies, to ensure all students make excellent progress.
• Work to sustain expert subject knowledge.

Leading Staff & Effective Teams:

• Promote a positive culture of developing practice.
• Actively seek to grow and develop as a professional through active participation in department meetings, development time, and performance management.
• Work alongside school leaders to build a happy and healthy community, where colleagues’ welfare is considered as a routine part of decision making.

School Improvement & Effective Partnerships:

• Work proactively with other staff and school leaders to support and develop initiatives that promote Biology and/or school goals.
• Liaise constructively (and proactively) with the parental community to communicate the vision and goals of Biology.
• Look for opportunities to work collaboratively with school leaders to develop their own practice as well as the practice and provision within the Biology department.
• Work on any ad hoc tasks as reasonably required by the Headteacher, Head of Academics and Head of Biology from time to time.
• Cooperate with the Marketing team for student recruitment, school promotion and other activities.

Key Duties  The Teacher of Biology will

Aims & Ethos:

1.Be responsible to the Head of Biology for the safe, proper and imaginative provision for Biology in line with the School’s mission and ethos.

Teaching: 

2. Teach for up to a maximum of 40 x 60-minute periods out of 60 periods /10-day cycle.
3. Motivate and inspire students whilst providing a supportive and dynamic learning environment.
4. Demonstrate a clear understanding of High-Quality Learning and Teaching.

Curriculum Planning:

5.Contribute widely to excellent curricular planning, implementation and review in the following areas:
a. The regular review, analysis and updating of Programmes of Study and Schemes of Work;
b. The drafting, implementation and review of a Biology Department action plan in line with the School Development Plan;
c. Home Learning in accordance with the school’s Home Learning Policy;
d.The setting of appropriate work during periods of cover for unforeseen absence within the department.
e. Organising and supervising ECAs.
f. Actively promoting ECAs and seeking student participation.
g. By shift to attend evening school to supervise students’ study and to ensure their safety and security.

English Language Learning:

6. Contribute to the promotion of English as an Additional Language in the following ways:
a. Having an awareness of the best practice in EAL with respect to lesson preparation, lesson delivery and differentiation, assessment, marking and reporting;
b. Ensuring that EAL support staff are well used through co-planning, support in lessons, assessment and feedback.
c. Supporting the Head of Learning Support in promoting school-wide goals and strategies in respect of developing students’ English proficiency.

Assessment:

7. Be responsible for assessment in the following areas:
a. Ensuring compliance between schemes of work, classroom practice and examined content and skills for external examinations as defined by the relevant syllabuses for externally examined courses;
b. Maintaining a high awareness of new or upcoming changes to externally examined courses including changes to content and/or assessment procedures;
c. Co-ordination of the preparation and marking of internal assessment papers in line with Biology Department policy.

Performance Management:

8. Be responsible to the Head of Biology who will act as Line Manager and who will normally conduct Performance Management.
9. Participate actively and constructively in the School’s Performance Management process in accordance with the school’s Performance Management policy.
10. Reflect on personal practice and participate in peer Learning Walks and Classroom Observations to ensure the sharing of best practice across the School.

Communication:

11. Contribute to excellent communication in the following areas:
a. Regular reporting to parents about the progress of students that explains how students can improve alongside a summary of their achievements;
b. Attendance at regular Department Meetings and other meetings as required.

Budget & Resources:

12. Contribute to budgeting and resources in the following areas.
a. Ordering books and equipment in accordance with the school budgeting policies and procedures;
b. With the support of the Science technician, ensuring that an up-to-date record inventory is kept of department resources;
c. Ensuring that departmental resources, books and ICT hardware are treated with great care.

Skills & experience

Essential:

-A commitment to working collegially combined with the vision and courage to develop a school from the very beginning

- A strong academic background and a good degree in Economics or other closely related subject

- A teaching qualification eg PGCE and QTS and at least 2 years’ experience post QTS

- Experience of teaching to a high level, including Advanced Level

- Excellent teaching, communication and interpersonal skills

- A commitment to personal professional development

- A willingness to participate in the programme of extracurricular activities, fixtures and trips

- Active support of the pastoral system, including pastoral tutoring and the boarding house system

- Excellent written and spoken English

- Active support of the ethos and aims of the school

- Committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children and young people

Desirable

- A proven track record of leadership

- International experience

- Experience teaching students whose first language is not English

- Contribution to staff professional development, leadership capacity and succession planning