Head of Junior School PE
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive, plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025 or January 2026
- Apply by:
- 6 May 2025
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, experienced and ambitious PE teacher to play a key role providing inspirational leadership and direction for PE, Games and all aspects of Sport provision within the Junior School at Wimbledon High School.
As Head of Junior School PE, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of policies for the teaching of PE and Games throughout the Junior School to optimise pupil progress and the delivery of all aspects of PE and Games.
As the lead practitioner for PE within the Junior School, you will lead by example, consult and advise colleagues to establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to the teaching of PE and Games.
Additionally, you will oversee the Junior School's co-curricular programme and varied schedule of sporting fixtures, tournaments and festivals. You will lead risk assessments, logistical requirements, communications and scheduling, ensuring a balanced programme of events that supports inclusion and opportunities for all.
About you
We are looking for a well-qualified teacher, with strong subject knowledge and excellent teaching skills across all aspects of the PE and Games curricula.
Along with your strong communication and interpersonal skills, you will need previous experience of leading a team and managing sports/PE events. An excellent working knowledge and understanding of health and safety best practice is also essential.
PE in the Junior School
Our Junior School has access to outstanding facilities for our pupils to enjoy and excel in sport, including an onsite 25m swimming pool, a large sports hall and access to playing fields.
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust and Independent Association of Prep Schools, we participate in nationwide competitions that give our students the chance to compete in a competitive setting.
About the School
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Tuesday 6 May 2025.
Interviews and lesson observations will be on Monday 19 May 2025.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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