We are seeking to recruit the finest teachers and staff, providing them with the resources to nurture outstanding students and exemplify the pioneering spirit and traditions of Lady Eleanor Holles School.
Job Description
ELA Teacher will:
Leading
Learning & Teaching
- Put students’ learning and welfare at the centre of all of
their practice and decision making.
- Have a clear vision for effective learning and teaching in the Prep school that reflects and complements whole school goals and guiding statements.
- Demonstrate excellent classroom practice.
- Have a clear understanding of what excellence looks like in the classroom and set standards that support the class teachers in aiming for this.
- Maintain an active critical interest in educational research and debate and promote discussion and training in the Prep School.
- Manage and evaluate effective systems for the assessment and tracking of learning, as well as implement a range of sustainable intervention strategies, to ensure all students make excellent progress.
- Work to sustain their expert subject knowledge.
Leading
Staff & Effective Teams
- Promote a positive culture of developing practice in their department
- Work alongside school leaders to develop the acquisition of English Language in the Prep school
- Work to support school leaders to build a happy and healthy community, where colleagues’ welfare is considered as a routine part of decision making.
School Improvement & Effective Partnerships
- Work proactively with other staff and school leaders to support and develop initiatives that promote the acquisition of the English Language.
- Liaise constructively (and proactively) with the parental community to communicate the vision and goals of the Prep School along with other issues or developments within the school as a whole.
- Look for opportunities to work collaboratively with other teachers to develop their own practice as well as the
practice and provision within the Prep School.

Key Duties The teacher of ELA will
Aims & Ethos
1. Be responsible to the Head of Prep and the Deputy Head for the safe, proper and imaginative teaching of English Language with the School’s mission and ethos.
Teaching Load
2. Teach for up to a maximum of 45 x 60 minute periods out of 60 periods /10 day cycle.
Curriculum Planning
3. Be responsible for excellent curricular planning, implementation and review in the following areas:
a. review, analyse and update l Programmes of Study and Schemes of Work;
b. draft, implement and review action plans in line with the Prep School’s Development Plan;
c. monitor Home Learning in accordance with the Prep School’s Home Learning Policy;
d. set appropriate work during periods of cover for unforeseen absence within the Prep School.
English Language Learning
4. Contribute to the promotion of English as an Additional Language in the following ways:
a. awareness of the best practice in EAL with respect to lesson preparation, lesson delivery and differentiation, assessment, marking and reporting;
b. ensure that EAL support staff are well used through co- planning, support in lessons, assessment and feedback.
Assessment
5. Be responsible for assessment in the following areas:
a. ensure compliance between schemes of work, classroom practice and examined content and skills for external examinations as defined by the relevant syllabuses for externally examined courses within the curriculum;
b. co-ordination of the preparation and marking of internal assessment papers
c. co-ordination of the preparation and marking of
admissions tests as required.

Performance Management
6. Be responsible to the Head of Prep who will normally act as Line Manager and who will normally conduct Performance Management.
Communication
7. Be responsible for excellent communication in the following areas:
a. regular reporting to parents about the progress of students that explains how students can improve their English in all areas alongside a summary of their achievements;
b. attend regular Department meetings and
other meetings as required.
Reporting
8. Contribute to the writing of reports for students in the Prep school, giving valid assessment data when required.

Person Specification
LEH International School, Foshan is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), International Child Protection Certificate (ICPC) or equivalent.
Lady Eleanor Holles International School Foshan is a non-smoking site and staff and families may not smoke on the School grounds or within sight of the School.
Essential:
- A commitment to working collegially combined with the
vision and courage to develop a school from the very beginning
- A strong academic background and a good degree in English or other closely related subject
- An appropriate teaching qualification
- Experience of teaching to a Prep School level
- Experience teaching students whose first language is not English.
- Excellent teaching, communication and interpersonal skills
- A commitment to personal professional development
- A willingness to participate in the programme of extracurricular activities, fixtures and trips
- Active support of the pastoral system, including pastoral tutoring and the boarding house system
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Active support of the ethos and aims of the school
- Committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children and young people
Desirable:
- A proven track record of teaching
- International experience
- Contribution to staff professional development, leadership capacity and succession planning