Teacher of Humanities with a specialism in Geography

Required 1st September 2026

Teacher Of Humanities (Specialism in Geography)

•    Permanent Position 
•    Full-Time (Part time hours will also be considered) 
 

Dowdales School is a proud, thriving and ambitious community. Here, we work together, as one, to ensure that everyone thrives in everything that they do. As a whole school, and as individuals, we aim high by wanting the very best for all. Everyone in Dowdales School leads by example ensuring that we treat each other as we want to be treated ourselves.

We are a community school with 884 students aged 11-16 years on roll. Situated in the historic town of Dalton in Furness, we enjoy being on the fringe of the Lake District National Park. As an Ofsted rated ‘good’ school, we believe in high expectations, excellent teaching and ambition for every young person.

Geography and History Department

Our Geography and History departments are led together by one Academic Team Leader and a Subject Leader for History.

The Geography/History department consists of two teachers of History and one full time teachers of Geography as well as a member of the Leadership Team.

The Citizenship/RS department is led by the subjects’ own Academic Team Leader and comprises of another full-time teacher.  RS/Citizenship includes PHRSE at KS3.

This role may involve teaching across all subjects in Humanities but will be predominantly Geography.

Uptake in Geography and History GCSE is high with 3 or 4 groups running year on year.  History follow the AQA syllabus and Geography have recently moved to AQA as well.  Citizenship runs a group each year. The department is housed in rooms together in the main school building.  Geography and History are each taught two 50 minute lessons per week at KS3.  At Dowdales we run 30 lessons per week.  Citizenship/RS are taught together with two lessons per week.  Option subjects each have three lessons per week.

History and Geography run a varied programme of educational visits for students; in recent years they visited Manchester, Munich, Barcelona and Iceland.

We are proud to have:

•    Extremely high aspirations for all students at Dowdales ensuring that every young person makes excellent progress and performs to the best of their ability
•    Students with positive attitudes who enjoy coming to school
•    An enthusiastic and dedicated team of staff and governors

We would welcome applications from someone who has:

•    A good understanding of effective and engaging teaching methods
•    The ability to plan lessons and sequences of lessons with clear objectives to ensure progression for all students
•    The ability to set consistently high expectations for all students through class work and homework

Please visit our website https://dowdalesschool.co.uk/vacancies/ for further details. Application forms to be returned to Mrs. A. Young at Dowdales School by 9am, Friday 5th June by email to recruitment@dowdales.school or post.  Interviews to be held during the week commencing 8th June 2026.

Dowdales School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. To achieve our commitment, we will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust Safeguarding processes and procedures that promote a culture of Safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers. The successful applicant will be required to undertake child protection screening, including references from past employers and an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCEPT CVs AND AN APPLICATION FORM MUST BE COMPLETED