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Teacher of Boys' Games & PE with responsibility for football

Teacher of Boys' Games & PE with responsibility for football

Colfe's School

Greenwich

Salary:
Colfe's own salary scale
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2019
Apply by:
1 October 2018

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and able graduate, with strong sporting credentials and interests, who will be fully committed to the work of the department and will contribute positively to its development, with a particular focus on football.    

The department operates from offices in the Sports Centre which comprises a large indoor sports hall with sprung Granwood flooring, a six lane 25m indoor pool, two newly furnished fitness suites and associated indoor and outdoor changing in an attached pavilion. This centre runs as a very successful leisure club for the local community during the evenings, weekends and all school holidays. The department in the senior school consists of a Director of Sport supported by an Assistant Director of Sport and a team of 7 PE teachers, plus graduate assistants and numerous specialist coaches. There are also additional PE teachers in the Junior School. A number of other teaching staff assist with games and school teams. There is a strong link between the Junior and Senior School as staff and facilities are shared. In addition to the sports centre, the School has approximately 60 hectares of playing fields on three sites and a full size floodlit astro-turf pitch which is used for Hockey, Football and Tennis as well as general training.  

The main sports for boys are rugby in the Autumn Term, football in the Spring Term and cricket in the Summer Term. Minor sports include basketball, swimming, badminton, tennis, athletics, cross country, fencing and squash depending upon staff interest and expertise. Physical Education is one of the GCSE options and we currently follow the Edexcel course. The timetable for the person appointed may include teaching GCSE PE as well as teaching throughout the full range of age groups from Year 3 to Sixth Form. 

The person appointed should be able to lead and develop the football programme to a high standard and will be expected to run teams throughout the year, including after school, weekends and, on occasion, during the holidays; leading by example in the promotion of our sport for all policy.

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About Colfe's School

THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;

• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;

• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;

• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;

• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.

Colfe’s School

Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools.  It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652.  In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.

In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school.  For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.

Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War.  In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London.  All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site.  The facilities are excellent: the  school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.

Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.

Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it.  It is very much a school of the present day.  The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy).  The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other.  Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’.  They are lively and willing to have a go.

Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.  

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