CORE PURPOSE

We require an inspiring, linguistically precise French Teacher to deliver outstanding French instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, with opportunities to contribute to post-16 advanced pathways. Operating within an ambitious, oversubscribed secondary comprehensive academy widely celebrated for its strong academic progress and deep community pride, the successful candidate will facilitate a knowledge-rich, immersive curriculum designed to foster high target-language fluency, spontaneous communication, and a sophisticated understanding of francophone culture, preparing all pupils thoroughly for exceptional outcomes in terminal GCSE public examinations.

THE SCHOOL

Our academy operates as a proud, community-focused secondary provider dedicated to raising academic standards, celebrating international outlooks, and serving the local borough. The campus features specialized, modern languages classrooms, dedicated digital language lab facilities, and a highly collaborative MFL faculty. Our behaviour management framework relies on strict organizational structures, clear behavioural expectations, and mutual respect, maintaining an exceptionally safe, orderly, and highly purposeful environment where pupils feel secure taking risks with target-language phonics, speech production, and advanced grammatical structures.

KEY TASKS & DAILY OPERATIONS

• High-Fluency & Target-Language Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver high-impact French lessons across all attainment pathways, systematically embedding phonics mastery, vocabulary retrieval, and complex grammatical scaffolding to build listening, reading, writing, and speaking confidence.

• Oracy & Spontaneous Speech Production: Cultivate a vibrant, interactive classroom environment, utilizing low-stakes speaking frameworks and targeted questioning strategies to encourage pupils to speak spontaneously in French, minimizing target-language anxiety.

• GCSE Performance Optimization: Guide Year 11 examination cohorts meticulously through the rigorous demands of linear terminal papers across all four core skills, utilizing formative test data to isolate and eliminate vocabulary gaps and maximize high-grade boundary retention.

• Closing MFL Attainment Gaps: Identify and target learning barriers within mixed-ability cohorts, deploying visual logic models, sentence-builder frameworks, and scaffolded translation structures to ensure accessibility for SEND pupils while stretching high-prior-attaining linguists.

• Inclusive Pastoral Support: Fulfil full form tutor responsibilities within an established year group structure, supporting pupil wellbeing, managing daily registration routines, and maintaining proactive, positive communication with families.

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or a recognised equivalent teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in French Studies or Modern Foreign Languages. Native or near-native target language proficiency is required.

• Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress metrics and exceptional performance outcomes in terminal public GCSE examinations through highly structured, systematic, and explicit language pedagogy.

• Global & Enthusiastic Ethos: An unwavering commitment to comprehensive education, possessing the exceptional communication skills, empathy, and cultural passion required to inspire all pupils with a love for language learning and global citizenship.

REGIONAL CONTEXT

• Black Country Heritage & Global Interconnection: Based in the historic industrial hub of Dudley, the school capitalizes on a robust regional identity deeply rooted in traditional engineering, manufacturing, and rapid modern commercial development. The borough’s transition into a highly interconnected, modern economy highlights the vital importance of language acquisition and international commercial links, connecting classroom French directly to global supply chains, international business pathways, and cultural capital enrichment across the West Midlands.

• Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from excellent West Midlands transport infrastructure, offering straightforward road commuting via the M5 motorway corridor (Junctions 1 and 2), the Birmingham New Road (A4123), and the A461. Public transit networks operate efficiently across the borough, utilizing comprehensive Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) bus corridors alongside regional rail networks, with nearby stations such as Dudley Port, Coseley, and Tipton providing frequent West Midlands Railway links that connect the school effortlessly to Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Birmingham New Street.

APPLICATION INTAKE

Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.