Teacher of Computer Science

at  Stephen Perse Cambridge Senior SchoolCambridgeshire

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Computer Science is a hugely popular course, from game design in Year 7, to artificial intelligence in Year 9, through to the exciting and challenging GCSE and A-level courses. Stephen Perse’s aim is to embed creativity and computational thinking to help students to understand and change the world.
Pupils are involved in a wide variety of coding related activities, creating a variety of programs in Python and other languages, and even learning how to use game engines such as GDevelop and/or Unity. We enter our students into the annual Bebras Computational Thinking Competition with a large proportion of students making it into the top 10% bracket of the country and taking part in the Oxford Computing Challenge in March. In recent years, students have left us and gone on to degrees and exciting degree apprenticeships in areas such as Data Science, Computer Science and more.
The extra-curricular provision of Computer Science is as vibrant as the lessons, with trips to Google, Amazon, Arm and other industry leaders as well as to such local events as the FXP festival, and talks and sessions at the Computing Museum. Our students compete in the areas of cryptography, cyber security, robotics, game design and more to extend and enthuse about the opportunities in Computer Science, and the club and enrichment provision continues to grow as demand increases.
Ideally, this role is to start in September 2025, but we would consider those who wish to start sooner.