French Teacher

Your Role

Thank you for exploring this exciting opportunity to join our friendly teaching team at Five Islands Academy. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Modern Foreign Language specialist with excellent subject knowledge to teach our engaged, creative students up to Year 11. French is our core MFL curriculum offer and excellent French language and pedagogical skills are essential.
Five Islands Academy is a small, voluntary controlled Church of England through school serving the five inhabited Isles of Scilly communities of Bryher, St Agnes, St Martins, St Mary's and Tresco. There are around 250 students on roll across four school sites. Secondary students and the majority of primary students are based on the Carn Gwaval multi age site on St Mary's. This new building was opened in 2011 and provides a bright, open, well-resourced learning environment for the students. Primary children on the off-islands study in small mixed-age school bases, then join their peers on St Mary's on a Friday for collaborative learning in specialist subjects.
Central to the development of our academy during recent years has been the development of a through school curriculum that nurtures curious, collaborative, creative global learners with rich knowledge and confident oracy. An exciting aspect of the MFL teaching role is the opportunity to collaborate with Trust colleagues across Truro & Penwith Academy Trust on developing a shared 'Connect' curriculum for French.
French results at Five Islands Academy have been on an upward trend over the past three years. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic teacher who will further raise the profile of language learning in the school, developing Modern Foreign Languages as an area of excellence.
Our school takes every opportunity to engage with our unique islands' environment, while also ensuring that our children have access to as many of the opportunities as possible that their mainland counterparts enjoy in order to support involvement with competitive sport and to boost their cultural capital. It is important that we help our students to look beyond their horizons, making connections with other countries and cultures. We are keen that our Modern Foreign Languages curriculum should support the creation of new intercultural links, using our excellent digital technology to reach out across the seas, bringing foreign language speakers into school and planning for trips abroad.
About You:
As a Teacher of French at Five Islands Academy, you are responsible for the learning and achievement of every child in your classes up to Year 11. You are expected to co-construct and implement a rigorous and relevant through school curriculum. Within this role you will ensure full coverage of the national curriculum, and follow the academy's Teaching & Learning Protocols. You will be expected to prepare students effectively for GCSE and to ensure that they have the rich knowledge and skills to succeed in education post-16. You will have high expectations of every student and provide challenge and support to enable every child to achieve at the highest level. You will also have opportunities to collaborate as Subject Lead with Primary teachers, to ensure that the curriculum is securely sequenced and makes the most of our unique environment as well as making powerful connections with the wider world.
Benefits of Working with Us:
As a leading Academy Trust, we are able to offer our staff a range of continued professional development opportunities alongside family friendly policies and access to the Local Government/Teachers Pension Schemes. More on our benefits can be found here.
How to Apply and Further Info:
To be considered for this role, please click the "Apply" button above to submit your online application.
The closing date and time for receiving applications is Sunday 7th June 2026 11:59pm
If you wish to discuss this position ahead of applying, please contact Rachel Lewin, Headteacher or Maddy Hicks, Head of Primary on 01720 424850. [email protected][email protected].
Interviews to be held on Wednesday 10th June 2026.
If you encounter any issues with the online application, please contact the Talent Team for assistance at [email protected].
TPAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application as part of their pre-employment administration. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected'. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Other pre-employment checks will include receipt of two satisfactory references, evidence of right to work in the UK, proof of any relevant qualifications and completion of a health assessment questionnaire.
Five Islands Academy is a Church School, and as such we nurture the wisdom of being in balance with doing. Inspired by our powerful Academy values, we appreciate the gifts that are ours and those we have to offer as members of a diverse global family.

Safeguarding Information

Candidates are advised that Truro and Penwith Academy Trust operate safer recruitment procedures based on the requirements outlined in: Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025

Statutory guidance from the DfE on Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006

Our recruitment process requires checks including identity, right to work, and an enhanced DBS check with a barred list check for all staff and volunteers. Checks for other roles may include overseas checks for those who have lived abroad, prohibition from teaching checks, and childcare disqualification checks, these will be undertaken for all appropriate roles. This ensures that:

Statutory checks on staff who work with children are complied with in line with the Disclosure and Barring Service requirements for Regulated Activity and are completed prior to starting within the Trust. Please also note: At least one member of the recruitment panel will have successfully completed safer recruitment training through an accredited training provider

Online searchers will be undertaken as part of pre-recruitment checks

Pre-appointment vetting checks

Where appropriate, details of checks will be held in individuals' personnel files. We follow requirements and best practice in retaining copies of and the retention of these checks, and they will be recorded within the single central record for the successful candidate, and in line with our data retention policy for all other candidates. All relevant staff (involved in early years' settings and/or before or after-school care for children under eight) are made aware of the disqualification from childcare guidance and their obligations to disclose to us relevant information that could lead to disqualification.

TPAT complies with the requirements of KCSIE 2025

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