Highgate International School Thailand opened to a founding community of Pre-Prep and Junior School students in August 2026. It will open a Senior School in August 2027, initially welcoming students into Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9.
Operated in partnership with Siam Motors Group and Highgate School, London, students enjoy access to a wide range of world-class facilities within a beautiful and generously appointed campus situated in Chonburi.
The Founding Senior Teacher of Science will help to establish Science as a defining academic strength of the Senior School. They will develop secure conceptual knowledge across Biology, Chemistry and Physics alongside curiosity, disciplined enquiry and confidence in practical science within the minds of a carefully selected population of highly capable students.
Key Responsibilities
The Founding Senior Teacher of Science will:
Plan, implement and review an ambitious and engaging Science curriculum for a cohort of capable, multilingual students founded upon Key Stage 3 objectives drawn from the English National Curriculum
Develop secure conceptual understanding across Biology, Chemistry and Physics
Build confidence in practical science through safe working, accurate observation, careful measurement and purposeful experimentation
Develop scientific enquiry through questioning, hypothesis, data analysis, evaluation and mathematical reasoning
Encourage students to investigate and explain the natural world using precise scientific language and evidence
Establish clear progression both into and through Key Stage 3, and towards IGCSE Sciences and A Level study
Key Characteristics
The Founding Senior Teacher of Science will:
Demonstrate exceptional subject knowledge
Exhibit a commitment to academic ambition, intellectual curiosity and the instilling of a lifelong love of learning
Build productive relationships with students, families and colleagues
Be ambitious, reflective, adaptable and upbeat
Have a pioneering attitude
Qualifications and Experience
The Founding Senior Teacher of Science will:
Hold a relevant degree and be a fully qualified secondary teacher with QTS
Have a minimum of three years' successful post-qualification teaching experience
Have a secure working knowledge of the English National Curriculum and appropriate secondary assessment pathways
Be able to demonstrate a strong track record for the teaching of Science at Key Stage 3 and 4 - experience of teaching a specialist science at Key Stage 5 would be seen as an advantage
Have experience of securing strong outcomes for populations of multilingual students
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