Teacher of Religious Studies with English and General Subjects

• Planning and preparing courses and lessons;
• Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to them, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere;
• Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.

• Promoting the general progress and well‑being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to them;
• Providing advice and guidance to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers, including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions, making relevant records and reports;
• Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher’s own position;
• Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils;
• Communicating and co‑operating with such persons or bodies outside the school as may be approved by the employing authority and the Board of Governors;
• Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.

Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils except in instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher’s own position.

• Participating, if required, in any scheme of staff development and performance review;
• Reviewing from time to time their methods of teaching and programmes of work;
• Participating in arrangements for their further training and professional development as a teacher;
• Advising and co‑operating with the Principal and other teachers on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.

• Maintaining good order and discipline among pupils in accordance with the policies of the employing authority and safeguarding their health and safety both when they are authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere;
• Participating in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.

Participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such assessments; and participating in arrangements for pupils’ presentation for and supervision during such examinations.

• Contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers, including the induction and assessment of probationary teachers;
• Co‑ordinating or managing the work of other teachers;
• Taking such part as may be required of them in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school.
• Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the school and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials;
• Subject to the provisions of Article 22 of the Order, attending assemblies;
• Registering the attendance of pupils and supervising pupils, whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after school sessions.

• A full‑time teacher, other than a teacher employed in a residential establishment, shall be available for work on 195 days in any year of which not more than 190 days should involve teaching children in a classroom situation;
• A teacher, other than a teacher employed in a residential establishment, shall be available to perform such duties at such times and such places as may reasonably be specified by the Principal, or…