TEACHER OF HISTORY

Required September 2025

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in your teaching career in a well led and supportive faculty within an outstanding school.  Little Ilford is a friendly, inclusive and oversubscribed school in Newham making a big difference to the lives of our diverse student community. In October 2016, we moved into a brand new state-of-the-art building. We have a strong reputation and high expectations of both students and staff and consider this to be an exciting place to work and develop, where creativity and innovation are nurtured. Our targets for attainment and progress are challenging, but staff have the focus and determination to realise them for the benefit of our students.  We really know our students, and focus on them as individuals.  Pastoral systems are strong and we value a curriculum offer and activities that educate the whole child. 

What Little Ilford can offer you -

Continued Professional Development

• commitment to ensuring that all staff have access to comprehensive professional development
• fully supported PTI programme
• fully supported by The National College programme
• we are a Leading Edge School with access to SSAT resources
• 1-1 coaching with external providers

Staff Benefits

• 19% PPA time
• Good home/work balance
• Free use of an onsite gym
• Free weekly group cardio sessions
• Free weekly yoga classes
• Free spin sessions
• Onsite car/bike parking facilities
• Cycle scheme
• 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme including 6 free counselling sessions, if required
• 24/7 access to a Digital Wellbeing Platform

We are looking for a committed, enthusiastic and high calibre teacher who has strong subject knowledge in history to join our energetic and dynamic team, ensuring that the quality of teaching and learning in your classroom is outstanding, keeping up to date with curricular developments and ensuring that the subject is popular and successful within the option choices.  You will engage and inspire our students in the subject allowing them to make outstanding progress and achieve strong results.

We will support and develop you to become an outstanding teacher and provide working partnership opportunities with other schools and departments.  We are an aspirational, reflective and creative learning community where all adults are learners who take risks in order to achieve excellent results for our students. 

We will shortlist and interview as soon as we have a strong field.

Please note - It would be desirable if candidates are able to teach a second subject.

We look forward to receiving your application.

To apply or obtain further information please visit our website www.littleilford.newham.sch.uk or for an informal discussion contact Mehz Karim on 020 8928 3548 /email m.karim@littleilford.org

Little Ilford School, Rectory Road, Manor Park, London E12 6JB

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful candidates.