English Teacher

The School

Deira International School (DIS) is an Outstanding BSO- and KHDA-rated, award-winning school located on a beautiful campus in Festival City, Dubai. In 2023, DIS was awarded the Education Excellence Award for ‘School Team of the Year’ and is also a Platinum Award holder for ‘Best Place to Work’, reflecting our strong commitment to staff wellbeing and a thriving school community.

With students aged 3–18, DIS is a not-for-profit school and part of the Al-Futtaim Education Foundation. Founded in 2005, the school is renowned for providing an outstanding, inclusive, and holistic education. Our most recent inspection highlighted the following strengths:

• Staff are overwhelmingly proud of the school and believe it is well led, safe, and inclusive
• The quality of teaching, learning, and assessment across the school is outstanding
• Teachers have high expectations and consistently challenge pupils to do their best
• Staff feel respected, valued, and treated fairly
• The curriculum is precisely planned, well sequenced, and builds effectively on prior learning
• There is a strong focus on academic progress and achievement

DIS is home to a diverse student body representing over 90 nationalities, which is fundamental to the school’s community ethos. Our exceptional facilities support a holistic approach to education, with rich opportunities across sport, performing arts, technology, leadership, creativity, and academic enrichment.

Although non-selective at admission, our students achieve exceptional examination results, comparable to top UK schools, and progress to leading universities worldwide. Digital literacy is embedded across the curriculum as we prepare students for the demands of a rapidly changing world.

In the Early Years, our personalised, play-based continuous provision ensures students are rigorously assessed against the EYFS framework, developing strong foundations for future learning. In Primary, pupils benefit from a broad and enriching curriculum, including a range of non-core subjects. In Secondary, students complete IGCSEs in Year 11 before progressing to the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) or IB Career-related Programme (IBCP) in Years 12 and 13.

DIS is governed by the Al-Futtaim Education Foundation (AFEF), a not-for-profit initiative of the Al-Futtaim family, supporting the vision of the Government of Dubai and KHDA to deliver future‑ready education while maximising positive social impact.

The successful candidate will join an outstanding department. As an English teacher at DIS, you will become part of a highly-skilled and passionate team that contributes to planning and delivering an engaging curriculum and supports the enrichment opportunities offered by English across the whole school. The IB English Language and Literature course is well‑established within the department, and its ethos is used to shape the journey of all English students from Year 7 upwards.

Our concept‑focused curriculum allows students to develop their English skills alongside their learner behaviours and communication skills. Most teachers in the department teach across the three Key Stages, which supports us in focusing our staff‑development on outstanding teaching and learning in English and creates an environment in which all staff can lead and take risks within their practice. At KS4, students study IGCSE English language and literature.

GCSE results have seen a three‑year trend of outstanding outcomes, with 89% of students attaining A*-B last academic year. Student success continues into IB with 92% of students attaining a Level 5 or above last year and 60% attaining a Level 6 or above. This post advertised offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a popular and successful department.

• Experience teaching GCSE English is essential and A Level/IB experience is desirable.
• A
  
  B.Ed. or degree in a related subject and PGCE / PGDE or equivalent with exceptional subject knowledge.
• A proven track record of outstanding learning and teaching.
• A mind‑set which understands all students have the potential for top performance, and the drive and passion to enable them to do so.
• Experience which will enable a contribution to our enriched curriculum programme.