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.
The Girls’ Day School Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection checks appropriate to the post, including online searches and checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.