Teacher of Spanish with French KS3

Overview

• Posting date: 11 March 2026
• Hours:
  
  Part time
• Closing date: 19 March 2026
• Location:
  
  Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3JD
• Company:
  Teaching Vacancies
• Job type:
  Permanent
• Job reference: ff172b7c-a32c-404e-a6aa-afe

Cranbrook School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and inspirational qualified teacher to teach Spanish up to KS5 and French up to KS3. This is a 0.5 part-time permanent post commencing on 1 September 2026.

If you are a passionate linguist who can bring language and culture to life and inspire, motivate, and challenge your classes, we would be delighted to hear from you.

We are seeking a teacher who can deliver consistently excellent lessons and is driven by the ambition to help students achieve the very highest outcomes - A and A grades at A-Level, and 7-9 grades at GCSE.

The MFL department is creative, dynamic, and ambitious, with a strong commitment to promoting a love of languages from the start. We offer a welcoming and supportive working environment, and warmly encourage applications from both newly qualified and experienced teachers.

Our MFL Department comprises a team of four passionate linguists with strong subject knowledge. All staff teach across the three key stages and all can teach more than one language  pride ourselves on the strength of our teaching and learning strategies, our collaborative ethos, and our shared commitment to student success. Our team brings together a range of experience and subject expertise, and we are passionate about delivering high-quality lessons that inspire and challenge our students to reach their full academic potential.

The Spanish curriculum at Cranbrook School is designed to foster a love of language learning, cultural awareness, and confident communication. It aims to provide all students, including those with SEND, with the opportunity to develop linguistic competence and intercultural understanding, preparing them for life in a global society. The department works well together with a common goal to give all students a positive experience of learning a language, discovering different cultures, and ultimately creating life-long language learners.

In Y7, all students start off with French, Spanish and Latin. In Y8, they opt for a combination of two languages. At KS3, our aim is to develop an enthusiasm for the culture and build students  confidence in the language by creating a supportive yet stretching and engaging environment.

At KS4, studying one language (French, Spanish or Latin) is compulsory for all. Most students choose to study one, with some dedicated linguists keeping two. We follow the AQA syllabus. Beyond GCSE, we offer both French and Spanish A-level for students who have reached a minimum of a grade 7  follow the AQA syllabus and aim to allow students to further their skills and understanding of the language and its specific culture and history by providing a stimulating and challenging programme of study.

At each Key Stage we offer study trips abroad to both France (in Year 7 and then in Y10 and 12) and Spain (in Year 8 and then Y11 and 13).

Consistently high value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of the school s wider provision within a selective environment. Cranbrook School has a thriving boarding community that offers great opportunities for staff to become involved.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.