Teacher of MFL

If you are an ambitious and enthusiastic Teacher of MFL, we have a truly exciting opportunity to join a successful academy which offers excellent career development programmes. We are looking for an MFL Teacher to join our team from September 2024 who can offer Spanish and French. The department is led by a highly experienced MFL practitioner and you will be joining a very supportive and friendly team who strive to share their love of languages with pupils. 

All our pupils will study one language from year 7 to GCSE. In addition we offer pupils the opportunity to study and sit GCSEs in Heritage languages. We encourage our pupils to be independent learners through the use of the trust-wide digital strategy which when fully implemented, all pupils will have their own Chromebooks and will be able to access various language softwares.

You will be able to support the department on various trips to France and Spain, and various celebrations throughout the year.

This is a permanent role, offered on MPS commensurate with experience + London Fringe Allowance. 

Working with us: Longfield Academy offers a friendly and supportive working environment with innovation and collaboration at the heart of everything we do. The academy is recognised as an International Baccalaureate (IB) world school and delivers the Middle Years Programme (MYP) to students in years 7 -9. Our most recent inspection in 2018 confirmed that Longfield Academy continues to provide strong educational outcomes for students. The richness of our extracurricular activities allows our students to excel in drama, music, sports and STEM. Leaders of the academy are highly ambitious for all of the students. We have a strong drive for school improvement underpinned by a relentless focus on the core business of improving teaching and learning. We do not limit that ambition to the outcomes of public examinations; our students being prepared for life is equally as important to everyone at the academy. Our pastoral system is truly exceptional and we pride ourselves on the quality of care for every student. Our Post-16 provision continues to go from strength to strength, rated in the top 10% for Kent, with our students securing places at top universities.

Longfield Academy benefits from modern, state-of-the-art facilities for learning across all subject areas. We have a thorough and robust approach to school improvement, and the academy is well on course to becoming a truly Outstanding school.

The school is heavily oversubscribed in year 7 and year 12. For more information about our academy, please click here.