English Teacher

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Completed application forms to be sent to recruitment@birkdalehigh.co.uk

CONTRACT: Fixed term, until 31August 2026

CLOSING DATE: Monday 13 April 2026 at midday

INTERVIEW DATE: w/c Monday 13 April 2026

START DATE: September 2026

GENERAL INFORMATION:

As the only 11-16 all-boys academy in Sefton, Birkdale High School aims to be a beacon for outstanding practice in the education of boys and be the school of choice for all boys in the Southport community and beyond. We passionately believe that a single-sex setting at this particular stage of a boy’s education is the ideal environment for them to grow in confidence, close the attainment gap with girls and develop their love of learning. Our boys are able to mature at their own pace, supported and challenged by staff who are experts in teaching boys, and surrounded by peers to whom they can closely relate.

The English department strives to be at the heart of a vibrant curriculum at Birkdale High School. As a team, we are committed to ensuring that all of our boys thrive across all three core disciplines: reading, writing and oracy, to support them in all of their subjects across the curriculum but also to empower them to remain intellectually curious, lifelong learners. All teachers within the English Department are dedicated to work collaboratively, cultivating a climate of excellence and are passionate about ensuring our boys harness a desire and enthusiasm to learn and succeed. Through our knowledge-rich curriculum, our aim is for all students to foster a genuine love of learning and to appreciate the intrinsic value of education. Learning to the point of mastery enables students to access increasingly challenging aspects of learning with confidence and apply their knowledge to a range of meaningful contexts. We aim to ignite students’ imagination through reading for pleasure and to help broaden their understanding and perspective of the world around them. We want students to build strong schemas throughout their learning journey, to become confident readers and critical thinkers. We want them to be able to appreciate writers’ intentions and understand how various contexts influenced their craft. In studying a range of literary canonical non-canonical texts, students will, for example, understand how allusions can enrich our understanding of the human condition, how it has helped shape our cultural heritage and how it resonates with contemporary society. Throughout the curriculum, students encounter a diverse range of challenging texts and genres, with the intention of developing them as writers who can confidently articulate their viewpoint and express themselves imaginatively and eloquently in the written form. In terms of pedagogy, we place a strong emphasis on direct instruction of tier two vocabulary as well as the metacognitive processes of reading and writing to build resilience. Our ethos of embracing mistakes is a crucial part of each student’s learning journey; we place value in the process of crafting and drafting, to provide opportunities for them to emulate authors’ styles and explore their own style of writing.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to visit us, meet our team and most importantly, get to know our incredible students. To organise a tour ahead of application, please contact the PA to the leadership team, Karen Anslow on kanslow@birkdalehigh.co.uk

We are really looking forward to meeting you.

Gareth Banks

Headteacher