Head of Junior School Sport
Magdalen College School
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary, TPS, Health Insurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Fee remission, gym and swimming pool facilities (please check MCS website for more)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022 or January 2023
- Apply by:
- 13 June 2022
Job overview
The School
Magdalen College School, Oxford, founded by William Waynflete in 1480, is one of the country’s leading independent schools. It is situated in an enviable location at the heart of Oxford beside the River Cherwell. It educates boys from 7–18 and girls in the Sixth Form.
The Role
The School is seeking to appoint a Head of Junior School Sport from 1st September 2022 or 1st January 2023. We are looking for an outstanding sports teacher to lead, manage and administrate all sport in the Junior School.
The Candidate
Ideally, the candidate would have experience of either playing or coaching at a high level, as well as experience of coaching rugby, hockey and cricket to this age group and an understanding of sport as part of a thriving extra-curricular provision. Strong organisational skills, excellent communication skills with pupils, parents and staff, and evident enthusiasm for junior participation are key. The successful candidate will be a team player with a positive, cheerful and caring attitude, a supportive approach to working with colleagues taking sports teams, and a willingness to be involved in all aspects of life in a busy Junior School.
Remuneration and Benefits
MCS currently has its own salary scale, and salaries are substantially more generous than those in the maintained sector; there is also a relocation allowance on a sliding scale, by agreement with the Master and Bursar, and dependent on current location.
The school offers a wide range of benefits such as cycle-to-work scheme, TPS, Private Health care and much more.
Further details of the Role, the JS, benefits and Professional Development are available in the attached "Information Pack - Year 4 (J2) Teacher" as well as on the MCS website under Vacancies. MCS Teaching Staff application form is also attached for your convenience.
Application Process
Candidates should submit the Application Form for Teaching Staff which can be found on the Job Vacancy link of the website (www.mcsoxford.org). The MCS Teaching Staff Application Form should be emailed with a Covering Letter addressed to the Master, Helen Pike, and a CV to Gail Workman, HR Officer, (recruitment@mcsoxford.org). All documentation should be sent no later than Monday, 13 June 2022 at noon. The school's preferred method of communication is by email and it will not be necessary to send a hard copy of the documents by post.
References are likely to be taken up in advance. If you do not wish references to be called for at this stage, please make that clear on the reference section of the application form.
We anticipate holding interviews, including an observed lesson on Monday 20th June and we will be in contact with shortlisted candidates by telephone and email.
Safeguarding Policy
Magdalen College School is committed to the safeguarding of pupils, and any offer of employment will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, the receipt of satisfactory references, the school’s pre-employment medical questionnaire, plus sight of relevant original ID documentation and degree certificate(s).
Attached documents
About Magdalen College School
MCS has a rich and distinctive history. The school was founded in 1480 by William Waynflete who believed in education as a facilitator of social mobility, and as such wanted to found a school of an entirely new kind. MCS quickly flourished as a school which firmly connected school education with a newly emerging university education and it soon became one of the country’s leading schools.
Today MCS provides a first-class education for boys aged 7-18 and sixth form girls. The school is small enough to develop every young person’s character and talents, yet large enough to provide a wide range of subjects and activities. MCS encourages a respect for learning whilst developing in every pupil a close interest in a wide range of extra-curricular interests.
MCS pupils enjoy a stimulating curriculum which is designed both to provide academic stretch and challenge, and to equip pupils with the skills for success beyond school.
In the early years, the emphasis is on exposing pupils to a wide range of subjects in order to discover their interests and talents. Pupils are put in sets by ability in French at 11 and in Mathematics at 12, no other subjects are set. There is an additional intake of pupils from prep and maintained schools at 13 and it is at this stage that boys make their first subject choices. Almost all pupils take ten (I)GCSEs, an increasing number of which are now reformed 9-1 (I)GCSEs.
Although MCS consistently secures outstanding public examination results, the real priority in the Sixth Form is on teaching beyond the syllabus, and the formation of habits of mind for life. In the Lower Sixth all pupils study at least four subjects, research and write their Waynflete Project (a 5000 word essay on a subject of their choice), undertake a community service or CCF placement, and participate in Games. From September 2017 all A Level (or Pre-U) courses will be linear; MCS pupils will no longer sit AS Levels. In the Upper Sixth, between one third and one half of Sixth Formers gain four or more A Levels, and there is a programme of lectures from visiting speakers, as well as UCAS applications and Games.
The School was last inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate in 2017 and was recognised as “excellent” in both of the assessed outcomes: “Quality of Pupil Achievement” and “Quality of Pupil Personal Development”.
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