Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
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Affiliations
References
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Ross Joynes

Ross Joynes

Harrow and Wealdstone,Surrey

Summary

I am a teacher with 25 years classroom experience and a deep love of History and politics. I am an exciting and inspiring teacher and have achieved consistently excellent results at GCSE and A level in both History and Politics. I have extensive experience of managing others, setting goals and achieving targets. I will bring excellent interpersonal skills to any role I am involved with and have a deep interest in pedagogy and how it relates to my subject.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Head of History and Politics

Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls
2024.09 - 2026.01

Head of History and Politics

Pardes House Grammar school
2021.09 - 2024.08

Head of History and Politics

Swakeleys school for Girls
2020.09 - 2021.08

Presenter and producer of Educational resources

Intech
2019.09 - 2020.08

Pupil Premium co-ordinator and teacher of History and Politics

Cardinal Vaughan school for Boys
2017.09 - 2019.08

History and Politics teacher and Key stage 3 co-ordinator for History

Preston Manor High school
2002.09 - 2017.08

Education

History

University College London
1996.01 - 1999.01

PGCE - History

Institute of Education
2001.01 - 2002.01

Skills

As a Head of department I have:

-Set targets for colleagues

-Monitored the performance of staff and performed lesson observations and lined manage colleagues

-Monitored the progress of students across key stages and organised interventions to rectify underperformance

-Managed department meetings and set priorities for the department

-Set goals doe the department through annual development plans

-Been responsible for departmental trips both day rips and residential trips abroad

-Managed the budget of a department to prioritise needs of students

As Pupil premium co-ordinator I have:

-Been responsible for organising whole school insets into how PP pupils are managed and catered for

-Monitored data across departments and across the school to analyse how pupils are performing

-Organised sessions across the school for pupils to support PP students

-Been responsible for the allocation of money to support students and monitor progress

As a Classroom teacher I have:

-Maintained a comprehensive and deep understanding of the curriculum content across the key stages in History and in Politics

-Closely followed pedagogy and focused on using the most recent research to improve performance of all pupils

-Have consistently achieved positive valued added school for students

-Lesson observations have always shown that I am a teacher with extensive subject knowledge and the ability to motivate students of all ability levels

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Affiliations

  • I am an enthusiastic tennis player and have and LTA tennis qualification. I am also a keen footballer and have a Level 1 FA coaching badge

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Head of History and Politics

Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls
2024.09 - 2026.01

Head of History and Politics

Pardes House Grammar school
2021.09 - 2024.08

Head of History and Politics

Swakeleys school for Girls
2020.09 - 2021.08

Presenter and producer of Educational resources

Intech
2019.09 - 2020.08

Pupil Premium co-ordinator and teacher of History and Politics

Cardinal Vaughan school for Boys
2017.09 - 2019.08

History and Politics teacher and Key stage 3 co-ordinator for History

Preston Manor High school
2002.09 - 2017.08

PGCE - History

Institute of Education
2001.01 - 2002.01

History

University College London
1996.01 - 1999.01
Ross Joynes