We will encourage our students to:
? Be exactly who they are, whatever their current interests or future aspirations.
? Benefit from the warmth, respect, and support of the entire School community as they stretch themselves to become their best, most confident selves, as students, and as citizens of the world.
? Have the freedom to experiment, express opinions, explore and take on new challenges.
? Be supported by strong role models and inspired by their peers.
? Find confidence and strength, and acquire and build the skills they need to succeed throughout their lives.
Staff
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
The Teacher of Chinese will:
Leading
Learning & Teaching
？ Put students’ learning and welfare at the centre of all their practice and decision making
？ Teach Chinese as mother language and second language
？ Have a clear vision for effective learning and teaching across their subject that reflects and complements whole school goals and guiding statements
？ Model excellent classroom practice
？ Have a clear understanding of what excellence looks like in their subject areas and set standards that support everyone in aiming for this
？ Maintain an active critical interest in educational research and debate and promote discussion and training around this within their department
？ 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
Staff & Effective Teams
？ Promote a positive culture of developing practice
？ Actively seek to grow and develop through active participation in department meetings, development time, and performance management
？ Work alongside 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 Science and/or school goals.
？ Liaise constructively (and proactively) with the parental community to communicate the vision and goals of Science
？ Look for opportunities to work collaboratively with school leaders to develop their own practice as well as the
practice and provision within the Science department.

Key Duties - The Teacher of Chinese will
Aims & Ethos
1. be responsible to the Head of Language and Head of Chinese for the safe, proper and imaginative provision for Chinese in line with the school’s mission and ethos.
Teaching
2. teach for up to a maximum of 45 x 60-minute periods out of 60 periods /10-day cycle.
3. motivate and inspire students whilst providing a supportive and dynamic learning environment.
4. demonstrate a clear understanding of High-Quality Learning and Teaching.
Curriculum Planning
5. Contribute widely to excellent curricular planning, implementation and review in the following areas:
a. The regular review, analysis and updating of Programmes of Study and Schemes of Work;
b. The drafting, implementation and review of a Chinese Department action plan in line with the School Development Plan;
c. Home Learning in accordance with the school’s Home Learning Policy;
d. The setting of appropriate work during periods of cover for unforeseen absence within the department.
English Language Learning in Chinese
6. 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. Ensuring that EAL support staff are well used through co- planning, support in lessons, assessment and feedback;
c. Supporting the Director of EAL in promoting school-wide goals and strategies in respect of developing students’ English proficiency.
Assessment
7. Be responsible for assessment in the following areas:
a. Ensuring 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;
b. Maintaining a high awareness of new or upcoming changes to externally examined courses including changes to content and/or assessment procedures;
c. Co-ordination of the preparation and marking of internal assessment papers in line with Chinese Department policy.
8. Be responsible to the Head of Chinese who will act as Line Manager and who will normally conduct Performance Management.
Performance Management
9. Participate actively and constructively in the School’s performance management process in accordance with the school’s Performance Management policy.
10. Reflect on personal practice and participate in peer Learning Walks and Classroom Observation to ensure the sharing of best practice across the School.
Communication
11. Contribute to excellent communication in the following areas:
a. Regular reporting to parents about the progress of students that explains how students can improve alongside a summary of their achievements;
b. Attendance at regular Department Meetings and other meetings as required.
Budget & Resources
12. Contribute to budgeting and resources in the following areas:
a. Ordering books and equipment in accordance with the school budgeting policies and procedures;
b. Ensuring that an up-to-date record inventory is kept of department resources;
c. Ensuring that departmental resources, books and ICT
hardware are treated with great care.

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.
The School 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 Chinese or other closely related subject
- A teaching qualification eg PGCE and QTS and at least 2 years’ experience post QTS
- Experience of teaching to a high level. The ability to teach Advanced Level Chinese would be a distinct advantage
- 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
- International experience
- Experience teaching students whose first language is not English.
- Contribution to staff professional development, leadership capacity and succession planning