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Robert Morley

Robert Morley

Chislehurst,Bromley

Summary

Compassionate, creative and effective Teacher with valuable experience in classroom administration, professional development and project planning. Equipped with extensive background in versatile education environments. Student-centric instructor, academic facilitator and motivational coach. Competent at performing independently or as member of teaching team. Well-versed in classroom and online technologies.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Head of Faculty for Humanities

Cobham Hall School for Girls
01.2024 - Current
  • Responsibilities include co-ordinating the five departments within the faculty to ensure the highest possible standards of teaching and learning in relation to a set of agreed goals outlined in the school development plan
  • This entails working with various stakeholders besides the leaders of each department including the senior leadership team, the admissions team and the Mill Hill Foundation itself
  • Event planning is key to this role as curriculum enrichment is one of the central ways in which the school promotes the ideas of internationalism, democracy, leadership, service and environmentalism
  • Teaching the history of the Middle East, 1918-2011 to a year 11 iGCSE class has been challenging however, teaching this course against the backdrop of the situation in Gaza has enabled certain points to come into sharp focus and provided excellent learning opportunities.

History and Politics Teacher

Sherborne Qatar Senior School
08.2021 - 08.2023
  • Responsible for the planning, and delivery of history and politics lessons across key stages 3, 4 and 5 in a truly multi-cultural and international setting
  • Teaching history in the Middle East provided many challenges including working within a set of political restrictions to deliver the iGCSE course on the history of international relations that covers the UN partition plan, relations between Israel and the Arab states.

Lead Practitioner of History

Meridian High School
New Addington
09.2020 - 12.2020
  • Part of the lead practitioners’ team At Meridian High whose goal it was to enhance teaching and learning practices across the school which included the creation and delivery of CPD sessions through Loom
  • Responsible for the delivery of subject knowledge enhancement sessions for History SCITT students conducted via zoom
  • The wider role included guiding the various History departments across the GLF trust.

Head of History Department

Langley Park School for Boys
Greater London
01.2007 - 01.2020
  • Played a vital role as Head of History in improving the A-Level results from the previous year where the department moved up from being in the bottom 60% in the country to the top 30%
  • Performance in the first year of the new GCSE also saw the department perform in the top 25% of schools across the country
  • Responsible for overseeing a sizeable budget to ensure money was effectively spent to improve overall performance
  • Experience of writing departmental development plans to ensure the department were in line with the overall school development plan
  • This included internalising the findings from exam reports, communicating this with SLT and feeding it forward to enhance departmental performance in the following academic year.

Teacher of History and Politics

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2007 - 01.2020
  • Went straight into Langley in my first full teaching year where I thrived under the pressure of delivering the A-Level Politics course and GCSE History to students already halfway through their studies
  • This was all amongst the backdrop of losing my brother in the same year so the whole experience forged in me a degree of mental toughness and resilience which meant that I could see out the most difficult and challenging year of my life successfully
  • Building on that, I delivered results in the classroom and gained outstanding ratings for my lessons from senior leadership observations throughout my teaching career to being rated by Ofsted as outstanding in 2014.

Head of Government & Politics

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Organised and ran a mock general election for our 600 strong sixth form and hosted a hustings event for the upper sixth
  • Significant numbers from the upper sixth registered to vote and took part in the subsequent general election despite being in an affluent area that has a significant degree of voter apathy amongst the 18-25 demographic
  • In its first full year under my guidance, the department became the joint best performing department in the school giving greater value added compared to all other departments.

Lead Subject Mentor PGCE History

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2009 - 01.2016
  • Required detailed knowledge of the current teaching standards, as well as working alongside various stakeholders such as the training provider and the head of teacher training at the school
  • Every student mentored went on to obtain teaching posts at high performing schools
  • Essentially, allowed me to engage in my passion for learning History whilst allowing the opportunity to work and cultivate an understanding of the processes of learning alongside other education professionals from the University sector.

Education

PGCE in Secondary History 11-18 -

University of West of England, Bristol

MA Hons History 2:1 - undefined

University of St Andrews, Scotland

English Literature (A), History (B), Government and Politics (A), Philosophy (B) - undefined

A levels

Maths, English and Science - undefined

GCSEs

PGCERT in Effective Learning - Education

UCL Institute of Education
London
09.2010 - 08.2012

Skills

  • Teaching, leading and motivating others - Experienced leader of a large team that delivered the teaching of History to approximately 1,000 students Adaptable in teaching across a number of platforms including Microsoft Teams and OneNote for confident delivery of full online lessons as well as being able to adapt to a blended learning environment
  • Mentoring - Extensive experience in mentoring trainee and newly qualified History teachers Proven track record of delivering highly purposeful one-to-one sessions drawing on the latest pedagogical research High-quality written feedback from lesson observations and end of placement reports ensured highly motivated teachers with a passion for History in the classroom
  • Writer/Content creator - Adept at employing writing skills to produce a range of documents to a variety of stakeholders within tight deadlines These include detailed learning programmes; assessments and mark schemes; exam reports; lesson observations; departmental development plans; curriculum mapping; sample essays; student reports, job references, end of placement reports for PGCE students and end of year reports for newly qualified teachers

Interests

Passionate collector of high-quality models (a desperate attempt to connect to my inner child!). That means I love researching potential buys and displaying my collection. I enjoy swimming and running 5k between April and August to keep my mind and body healthy.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Head of Faculty for Humanities

Cobham Hall School for Girls
01.2024 - Current

History and Politics Teacher

Sherborne Qatar Senior School
08.2021 - 08.2023

Lead Practitioner of History

Meridian High School
09.2020 - 12.2020

Head of Government & Politics

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2014 - 01.2017

PGCERT in Effective Learning - Education

UCL Institute of Education
09.2010 - 08.2012

Lead Subject Mentor PGCE History

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2009 - 01.2016

Head of History Department

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2007 - 01.2020

Teacher of History and Politics

Langley Park School for Boys
01.2007 - 01.2020

PGCE in Secondary History 11-18 -

University of West of England, Bristol

MA Hons History 2:1 - undefined

University of St Andrews, Scotland

English Literature (A), History (B), Government and Politics (A), Philosophy (B) - undefined

A levels

Maths, English and Science - undefined

GCSEs

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