PE Assistant
Godstowe School
Buckinghamshire
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 25 May 2024
Job overview
Godstowe School is an independent day and boarding school for girls age 3 to 13. We have approximately 400 girls with a community of about 80 boarders from the UK as well as other countries around the world, adding an important international and multicultural dimension to the school.
We are seeking an Assistant to the PE and Sports Department who has a passion for sport and working with children. Reporting to the Director of Sport, the role will be split between administrative functions in support of the department and practical assistance to lessons and fixtures.
Godstowe has a fine sporting pedigree and excellent facilities including a 25m Indoor Swimming Pool, a Sports Hall, four floodlit Netball courts / Tennis courts, a Floodlit Lacrosse pitch/Athletics field and a dance studio. Fixtures are played against many local schools, and highlights of the calendar include the annual ski trip and biennial Lacrosse Tour of the USA.
The main school sports are Lacrosse, Hockey, Netball, Cricket, Tennis, Athletics, Swimming and Gymnastics. In addition there are opportunities for Golf, Riding, Football, Lifeguard Training and Judo among others.
This is a part-time, term-time only (plus INSET days) role. Among other benefits are a competitive salary, pension, discount on school fees for eligible children and meals in term time.
Godstowe is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Godstowe School
Something Special is happening at Godstowe
Godstowe was founded by two strong, progressive women, originally in fact as a school whose purpose would be to prepare girls for the move down the hill to Wycombe Abbey School. Their vision was for an innovative, academic and broad education for girls and, without a doubt, this continues to live on in today’s school.
Our ethos is simple. All we want is for our girls and boys to be Confident, Happy and Successful. Indeed, if the first two are true, the third will almost certainly follow. Success is defined in many ways, and we mean successful in the broadest sense: successfully kind, successfully courteous as well as successful in achieving a wide range of goals. We keep our pupils busy and engaged, we entertain and intrigue them, encourage them, and excite them. Happy children are easy to teach.
With outstanding, highly qualified teaching staff as well as a strong and experienced pastoral team, excellent facilities, wonderful surroundings, a non-selective intake policy and a more positive, exuberant and industrious atmosphere than you will find in other schools, it is likely that most of our children will be happy to learn, happy to stretch themselves, happy to support each other, and happy to do whatever they can to take an active part in their own education. Why push children through the curriculum when they can be inspired to make their own journey, choose their own routes and arrive at their destination under their own steam?
Our pupils love their time at school. It never ceases to amaze me just how much highly motivated and enthusiastic people can willingly contribute, and we don’t just mean the girls and boys, we mean the staff and the parents too! Godstowe is alive with opportunity. Remember, to learn a lesson you need to live it.
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