The Cathedral and John Connon School

About us

We are The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai’s Fort precinct, founded in 1860 by the Anglo-Scottish Education Society. Our John Connon building dates to 1881. Our school is organised into pre-primary, infant, junior, middle and senior divisions. Pupils can pursue ICSE or Cambridge IGCSE through Grade X, followed by ISC or the IB Diploma in Grades XI–XII. We connect academic work with personal judgement and principled conduct. Our current appointments are for English within the ICSE and IGCSE pathways and Geography within the senior ICSE section. Curriculum-specific teaching experience is relevant to these distinct appointments.

Our location and community

Our institutional base is in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Our address is Fort, Mumbai. Our educational and professional work is connected with the learners and families served by this campus.

Professional areas within our institution

Professional roles within our team include ICSE English Teacher, IGCSE English Teacher, ICSE Geography Teacher.

The work associated with these appointments includes reading, language use and confident expression.

How our teams contribute

We teach reading through close attention to vocabulary, meaning, structure and the evidence available in a text.

We develop writing through planning, drafting and revision, giving pupils feedback they can use to improve their next piece of work.

We connect physical and human geography with maps, spatial patterns, local examples and the interaction between people and environments.

We help learners interpret diagrams, data and case studies, paying attention to scale, location and the evidence behind a conclusion.

Professional preparation

ICSE English Teacher: ICSE roles are in the senior section. We seek educators committed to academic work, student development and meaningful learning. IGCSE English Teacher: ICSE roles are in the senior section. We seek educators committed to academic work, student development and meaningful learning. ICSE Geography Teacher: ICSE roles are in the senior section. We seek educators committed to academic work, student development and meaningful learning.

Careers with us

For opportunities with The Cathedral and John Connon School, please use the application method and closing date given for the individual vacancy. Applications should identify the position and the relevant campus. Use your application to describe a sequence of reading or writing lessons, the feedback given to learners and how language confidence or accuracy developed. Identify the curriculum and classes involved, your own responsibility and the approaches that proved useful. Examples of lesson design and assessment can explain your subject expertise more clearly than broad claims about teaching ability.