Residential Graduate Sports (Football/Rugby) and Boarding Assistant
Westbourne House School
West Sussex
- £11,500 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- (pro rata)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 20 June 2021
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a new graduate to develop their skills and gain extensive and worthwhile experience in a friendly and supportive independent Prep school. The post will be particularly attractive to any graduate considering a career in teaching and for whom a residential role would be an exciting opportunity. Applications are especially welcomed from specialists in Football and/or Rugby.
The Role:
Sport
The ethos of Westbourne House School’s sport is ‘Sport for excellence, sport for all’. The school strives to give children the opportunity to play a wide range of sports. The pupils are lucky to have so much time dedicated to sport. Each age group has one PE lesson a week and on top of this they have a minimum of two games sessions. In addition, inter-school fixtures on a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon plus Saturday for Years 4-8. There will also be a variety of activities run on a Saturday which you will be expected to contribute to and assist with.
We are looking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic Graduate Sports Assistant to significantly contribute to the thriving Games programme. The applicant will need to be able to competently teach and officiate a variety of sports. The major sports include; Rugby, Football, Hockey and Cricket for the boys. Athletics, Tennis and Swimming would also be advantageous. It is likely that you will be responsible for an age group which will involve planning and leading games sessions, selecting teams for matches and taking those teams on match days. The role will also involve some administration tasks as required.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a highly skilled and experienced sports department.
Boarding
The role will require the successful candidate to live on site and to contribute fully to boarding school life. This will involve weekend work (on a rota basis), early mornings (assisting the houseparents in getting the children ready for school) and later evenings (assisting the houseparents in getting the children ready for bed).
This is a full time, term time only, fixed term position until 9th July 2022. The salary for this role will be £11,500 per annum pro rata.
We can offer:
• A strong and supportive staff team
• Valuable teaching experience
• Single accommodation on site and meals during term time
• Use of the school’s facilities, when not in use by the school
• Employee Assistance Programme
Closing date: 20th June 2021
We reserve the right to interview and offer to a strong candidate prior to the closing date. For this reason, early applications are encouraged.
Please apply by completing the application form. CVs may be attached, but not in place of the application form. Please return completed applications to Robyn Aubrey at hr@westbournehouse.org
About Westbourne House School
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- Westbourne House School
- Coach Road, Shopwyke, Chichester
- West Sussex
- PO20 2BH
- United Kingdom
Westbourne House is situated just to the east of Chichester in beautiful grounds of over 100 acres. There are approximately 360 boys and girls, aged 2½ -13. Most children go on to major Public Schools across the South.
The school enjoys outstanding facilities. Teaching is extremely well resourced with excellent teaching rooms, the majority equipped with interactive whiteboards; there are also sets of laptops which can be booked for class-based work. There are rooms for Art, Ceramics, ICT, Design Technology and Food Technology, a separate Science block and Music School, as well as a modern, 300 seat theatre/assembly hall. The School also has a large (30 acre) lake on the north boundary for kayaking.
Academic standards are high, with consistently outstanding Common Entrance results together with an excellent scholarship record; last year no fewer than 36 awards and scholarships to senior schools were won across a range of disciplines, totalling 140 over the last five years.
Westbourne House uses the High Performance Learning philosophy to guide all pupils in becoming good learners. The school believes that all pupils have the potential to perform at the highest level regardless of their current performance level. The Advanced Cognitive Performance Characteristics (ACPs) and Values, Attitudes and Attributes (VAAs) of HPL are the “thinking” and “behaviour” characteristic and these are delivered specifically and systematically throughout the curriculum.
The Music and Drama departments also excel consistently: all children are involved in school productions, a large number are members of school choirs and there are regular concerts.
Saturday school consists of sports matches, as well as optional enrichment activities, such as kayaking and coding.
There is a wide variety of sport on offer, and a large number of teams represent the school most Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. As well as extensive playing fields, there is a 25-metre swimming pool, dance studio, sports hall, squash courts and a full-sized astro-turf pitch.
There are around 100 boarders, many of whom board for two or three nights in one of seven houses on the school grounds. The school offers full time boarding allowing the children to further enjoy the beautiful facilities and grounds the school has to offer.
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