Science Teacher

Overview

To register your interest quickly, please submit your TES application form. Don't feel scared or not good enough! Apply! You have nothing to lose and you would be amazed at the variety of teachers e even come to us straight from university. Unqualified candidates, ECTs, right up to more experienced staff should all apply! There is the option to train with us to obtain QTS.

We advertise all year round so as to find candidates who are best suited to our traditional ways. Teachers stay at Michaela on average about 4 or 5 years.

Michaela Community School is an exciting and successful free school that opened in September 2014 in Wembley, and is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. You may have heard of us: our headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh, is often in the news saying things that others find controversial but that we think are common sense. They call her 'the strictest headmistress in Britain' but all that means is that she has high standards for the kids.

In 2024, our Progress 8 at GCSE was 2.55, the highest Progress 8 in the country for the third consecutive year. 85% of our GCSEs papers achieved a 7 to 9 grade. Also, over 50% of our GCSEs were Grade 9. Our A level results are equally impressive with nearly 70% of our A level exams graded A or A, and 80% of students went on to Russell Group universities, including Oxbridge, Imperial and LSE.

We help each other get the best out of the kids, and we deliver as a team.

Please include answers to these questions: 1. Why teach Science at Michaela? 2. How would you fit in with our unique ethos? 3. When are you hoping to start?

• Performance: 2024 Progress 8 at GCSE 2.55 (highest in country).
• GCSE pass: 85% achieved grade 7-9; over 50% achieved grade 9.
• A Level: nearly 70% graded A or A; 80% went to Russell Group universities.
• Average tenure: teachers stay 4-5 years.

• Teach both lower and upper school sciences, with flexibility to focus on A Level or lower school years 7-13.
• Develop and deliver curriculum across all three sciences, supporting team collaboration.
• Support team to develop subject knowledge outside specialisms.
• Build relationships with pupils, manage behaviour, and encourage high expectations.
• Participate in focus group on curriculum and assessment of science.
• Engage in professional development and school improvement initiatives.

• Successful candidates will need to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS and/or provide police checks from other countries, where appropriate.
• Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
• Equal opportunities employer: all staff and volunteers share commitment to EEO.

Suitable candidates will be interviewed promptly upon receipt of application. The closing date will be brought forward in the event that the post is filled. There is no other school in the country like Michaela. Check out our website and watch some interviews with new staff on their experiences joining Michaela here: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). You are also very welcome to simply visit the school – and we highly recommend it.

We are 30 seconds from Wembley Park tube, accessible by both the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines. This means we are 20-30 minutes away from Bond Street or Kings Cross! Visitors often say seeing the school in action changed their minds in a variety of ways and allowed them to see the school as it really is. At Michaela teachers are paid using the teacher inner London pay scales.

Successful candidates will need to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS and/or provide police checks from other countries, where appropriate. Michaela Community School is an equal opportunities employer.