About This Role
Central Foundation is located on the Old Street Silicon Roundabout and at the heart of the Tech City, which offers a range of amazing opportunities for our students. We are seeking to appoint Head of Physics to join our successful science faculty. A TLR2c is attached to this role for leading the subject.
About Central Foundation
Located on the Old Street Silicon Roundabout and at the heart of the Tech City, the School is a high performing comprehensive. The school was rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in March 2025. The students’ outcomes have been consistently exceptional both at KS4 and KS5. Physics is one of our most oversubscribed A level courses.
We offer a broad curriculum with a focus on academic subjects as well as vocational education. Our extra-curricular provision supports the student experience in classroom. Sport, Music, Drama, Art, Coding, Debating or Cooking are very popular with our students who over the years developed their talents and skills in many subject areas.
The School has a strong sense of community and a diverse student body.
Benefits we offer
Inner London Weighting Allowance
Opportunities of promotion, including an award of a TLR for taking on additional responsibilities within a department or across the school
Coaching programme to support professional development (replacing the three performance management lesson observations a year)
Designated team to support new colleagues and ECTs
Workload-friendly assessment policy
Centralised teaching resources significantly reducing the teacher’s workload and supporting collaboration within the departments
Generous allocation of preparation and marking time
Centralised detention system
Administrative support with certain departmental tasks
Travel loans
Cycle scheme
Gym membership scheme
Free gym facilities on site available before and after school
Childcare vouchers scheme
Pension scheme
On site car-park (limited spaces) and cycle storage
Great location with Old Street (1 min away on foot), Liverpool Street (10 min) and Moorgate (10 min) stations nearby
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced criminal record check and other pre-employment vetting checks.
The successful candidate will be required to comply with safeguarding responsibilities as set out in the job description.
This post will involve working with children in a regulated activity. All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected'. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account.
Please download an application pack from TES website or contact the school on 02072533741 / e-mail obireka@cfbs.islington.sch.uk.