Northwood College for Girls seeks a talented, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic teacher of History & Politics to teach KS3 through to A Level A Level. The successful candidate will be able to communicate their enjoyment of the subjects to students, strive to maintain the highest academic standards and promote a genuine passion for History and Politics. They will be a passionate subject advocate and flexible team player, committed to getting the best out of their students and inspiring a love for History and Politics.

This post is to cover a maternity absence and will be for a minimum of two terms. 

The Department:

The History and Politics Department is a flourishing department with a dedicated and driven team. All students study History from Year 7 with a broad and diverse curriculum, covering traditional topics such as William the Conqueror and Medieval England, alongside learning about Genghis Khan and Mansa Musa. In Year 8 our curriculum currently includes The Reformation and Elizabethan England, alongside a deep study of enslavement in Africa and the legacy of slavery across Europe. The Year 9 curriculum focuses on the 20th Century, with topics including Women’s Suffrage, World War I and key events of World War II (including the Holocaust and use of the atomic bomb).

History is one of our most popular option subjects in Year 10/11. We follow the Edexcel IGCSE specification and students achieve exceptionally highly, with the average grade of 8.11 in the Summer 2024. For their depth studies paper, we cover Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45 and A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72, and for investigation and breadth studies we cover The USA, 1918–41 and Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948.

Many of our students continue to pursue the subject at A Level (and beyond) where we follow the OCR specification, with topics including: England 1445–1509, The Cold War in Asia 1945–1993 and Civil Rights in the USA 1865–1992, alongside a 4000 word topic based coursework essay. Politics is offered as a new subject at A Level, following the Edexcel specification (Option A – Comparative Politics).

The Department is well-resourced with plentiful supplies of ICT resources, books and subscriptions. There are two History classrooms in our Manor block (alongside other Humanities and English classrooms) as well as a dedicated A Level Seminar Room in our Old School block. The Department has a large office also located in Old School.

The Department runs plenty of visits, commonly including a World War I battlefields trip to France or Belgium for all Year 9 students and a visit to either Warwick Castle or the Tower of London in Year 7. Our Sixth Form Politics students have also visited Parliament, in conjunction with other GDST schools.