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The Role and the Department

Are you a passionate English teacher or experienced primary school teacher eager to make a meaningful impact? We are seeking an exceptional individual to join our team at Ark Greenwich Free School, specifically dedicated to supporting our most vulnerable students who are not yet secondary ready in terms of their literacy.

In this unique role, you will work with students who are reading three or more years below their chronological age. Your expertise will be invaluable as you collaborate closely with our English team to provide targeted interventions for our most vulnerable students.

We would be interested in a candidate, for example from a Primary background, who would also be flexible to deliver Maths/numeracy interventions to those who lack the fundamental skills and knowledge to access the secondary curriculum, and SEND specific interventions such as social skills or life skills.

For the right candidate a TLR is available to take a leadership role within our SEND team, as Deputy SENCo.

At Ark Greenwich, we believe in making bold decisions to support every child in our care. By integrating a primary educator into our secondary environment, we are committed to delivering small‑group instruction. These students need to rapidly close the reading and numeracy gap. This is more than just a teaching role; it’s an opportunity to close the disadvantage gap and transform lives.

Join us in our mission to ensure that all our scholars have the chance to succeed and reach their full potential. If you are ready to embrace this challenge, we want to hear from you!

• Salaries 2.5% higher than main pay scale.
• Twice as many training days as standard.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Access to Ark rewards – a scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers
• Interest‑free loans – up to £5,000 available for season ticket or to buy a bicycle.
• Gym discounts – offering up to 40%.
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme – providing free, confidential counselling, legal advice and a range of different support.

How is Ark Greenwich different?

• We are part of the Ark family of schools and benefit accordingly from outstanding networking and career opportunities and first‑class CPD.
• Staff wellbeing is one of our main priorities. We provide breakfast for staff each morning, lunch for early careers staff and have a 6pm/weekend work‑related communication cut off. We do not do knee‑jerk reactions, fads or last‑minute deadlines. Our systems and processes for communication, marking and feedback and assessment are streamlined and the approaches we take are research‑led and based on our local context. We offer a WFH day to HoDs for curriculum design and also offer external marking of scripts to support workload. Our full approach to staff wellbeing/workload can be found here.
• This is a small school model (600 scholars aged 11‑16) because we believe that our close‑knit family community provides the optimum conditions for success.
• Scholar behaviour is exceptional with clearly defined and embedded routines. means our teachers can focus their time on the things that matter – planning and delivering brilliant lessons for our scholars.
• This is a strict no excuses, no mobile phone school. Phones are not permitted onsite at all. Scholars wear business dress to prepare them for a professional career.
• Our curriculum is traditional and academic, and we do not take shortcuts to seek to boost our position in school league tables – we do not, for example, offer equivalencies such as Btecs or Vcerts.
• We put high‑quality teaching at the heart of what we do. We are committed to providing staff with weekly high‑quality training. We run coaching for staff who want to see rapid progress in their discipline. Live coaching and current best practice in the field of education is central to our approach.
• We don’t grade individual lessons or ask for lesson plans but we do place a primacy on curriculum design, independent learning and formative assessment.
• Our scholars enjoy a compulsory co‑curricular program on a Wednesday afternoon which includes a strong focus on community volunteering and we facilitate 6 drop‑down days per academic year ensuring scholars benefit from a range of life‑enriching experiences.

Alignment with the school’s vision, values and approach to education is essential.

We aim to build a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone – staff and students – can do their best work and achieve their full potential. We want to reflect and represent diverse perspectives across our organisation because we know that doing so will make us stronger and more effective. To know more about Ark’s diversity and inclusion commitments, please click on this link.

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non‑disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment – this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred. To read more about Ark’s safer recruitment process, please click this link.

Please note we will be reviewing applications on an on‑going basis and this role may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response. We strongly encourage to submit your application at your earliest convenience.