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KS2 Teacher (Art & DT) – Full Time Maternity Cover

KS2 Teacher (Art & DT) – Full Time Maternity Cover

Wimbledon High School

Wimbledon

Salary:
Competitive salary
Job type:
Full Time, Maternity Cover
Start date:
January 2018 or earlier
Apply by:
21 September 2017

Job overview

The role

Wimbledon High School is seeking an outstanding KS2 Teacher to join its excellent and popular Junior School.   

This maternity cover role will include taking the lead on delivering Art and DT across KS2. Visitors to the School often comment on the outstanding art on display, and you will play a key role in ensuring our young artists and designers are encouraged and inspired to continue their artistic development.

About the Junior School

Life in our Junior School has often been full of such excitement since we introduced our creative curriculum. We tap into children’s natural curiosity and creativity, encouraging their imaginations to flow and their descriptions of what they are experiencing to become ever more elaborate. 

Why Wimbledon High School?

Wimbledon High School is a beacon school of the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST), the largest independent school group in the UK. As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, excellent facilities, and a friendly and supportive working environment, the School also offers:

• Access to extensive professional development opportunities

• Training grants for qualifications

• Generous pension schemes

• Free life assurance benefit

• Free school lunches

• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools

If you are committed to high standards in teaching highly motivated girls and have the dedication and enthusiasm to contribute to our extra-curricular programme and happy community we would be delighted to hear from you.

Further details of the position and the application form are available by clicking the apply button.

The closing date is 9am on Friday 22 September 2017. 

Interviews will be held on Monday 2 October 2017. 

Completed application forms should be emailed to hr@wim.gdst.net 

The School reserves the right to commence the interview process at any time prior to the closing date so early application is recommended.

Wimbledon High School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

About Wimbledon High School

Wimbledon High School GDST is a popular and academically very successful school.

We are a centre of excellence, demonstrating thought leadership and taking a lead in girls’ education. Our innovative pastoral programme, GROW, is at the core of what we do and what we offer: this is above all a friendly and happy school. 

The first school to hold a ‘failure week’ back in 2012, we follow this up every year with initiatives to encourage risk-taking and resilience. The guru of GRIT, Angela Duckworth, visited Wimbledon High in 2016, and Steve Biddulph in 2017. We believe this ethos, together with an expansive co-curricular and partnerships programme, leads to unselfconscious students, comfortable in their own skin and highly active in all areas of school life, with student leaders organising annual Happiness Festivals and Clever Clogs conferences. 

Academically, we have truly embraced cross-curricular learning, with two scientists in residence working across Juniors and Seniors to foster STEAM. The skills of problem solving, creativity and collaboration, together with the girls’ experiences of finding their voices and having their say, prepares them for what is likely to be an ever changing work environment and jobs which we cannot yet imagine. Our Year 13 stride out of WHS ready to take on the world and shake it up.    

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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