Head of Physical and Health Education (TLR1) - West Island School
West Island School - ESF
Hong Kong
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2023
- Apply by:
- 9 December 2022
Job overview
Job Description
West Island School is seeking a Head of Physical Health Education (PHE) Faculty starting in August 2023 to join a highly successful team. We welcome applications from all applicants of all specialist sports. (Full Time Two Years contract, renewable by mutual agreement).
PHE is taught as part of the IBMYP framework for students between the ages of 11-14 using inquiry approaches, conceptual understanding and skills development. While direct experience of the IBMYP program is not essential, a willingness to learn and empathy for inquiry-based approaches is needed. Until now, some of the health components have been taught in a separate Personal Social Health curriculum outside of the faculty. From 2023, this will be gradually integrated fully into the PHE teaching units, covering all areas of knowledge including diet, relationships, substance misuse, rights and responsibilities. Your expertise and knowledge of managing this change with and through the team and others for responsibility in this part of the curriculum will be critical to the leadership task.
Please refer to the ESF recruitment website as well as our own school-based website for further information. If we have missed anything in the details that follow, don’t hesitate to contact us for further information about the school or living in Hong Kong.
Principal - Chris Sammons chris.sammons@wis.edu.hk Vice Principal – Helena Murchie helena.murchie@wis.edu.hk
See ESF Terms and Conditions for further details of the conditions of service.
Requirements
The Head of PHE will be a member of the Pedagogical Leadership team able to:
- Build a vision for high-quality PHE education that:
-engages the full range of learners and their needs
-develops excellence in our competitive sports teams
-provide a rich extra-curricular sports offer
- Leads continual growth and improvement by prioritising key actions as part of our school and faculty level development plan; monitoring and evaluating its implementation
- Leads change with support, challenge and due regard to team wellbeing
- Plans for the effective management of financial and physical resources, including the active management of risk and safety for students engaged in physical activity and offsite learning
- Learns from internal and external reviews as well as securing external accreditations when needed
- Models high standards for teaching and learning securing excellent student outcomes with regard to planned, taught and assessed curriculum in each of the programmes
- Develops a culture of effective risk management to ensure student safety at all times
- Contributes to high-quality collaboration within the PHE team, PLT and wider faculty
- Delegates to members of the PHE team to achieve faculty’s priorities effectively and efficiently
- Develops talent of team members through effective appraisal, ongoing feedback and strategic planning for faculty and own training needs
- Inspires student engagement by celebrating achievement at faculty, school and foundation-wide level.
- Leads a rich extra-curricular sports programme including:
-making provision for competitive school teams as part of our league commitments
-making provision for team sports that support engagement and enjoyment for all
-making provision for general fitness and athletics training
-employment and oversight of specialist school coaches, and developing support
from the wider staff faculty to supervise/coach these activities
-establishing partnerships with external hires such as Harry Wright Swim training for
the benefit of our swim teams
Essential Requirements for this Post:
- A first degree in Sports Science, Sports Education or a relevant subject
- Experience and personal success in teaching one or more of our programmes:
- MYP, iGCSE, Btec, DP or their equivalent
- Experience of teaching IBDP is an advantage.
- An internationally recognised postgraduate teaching qualification eg a PGDE, PGCE or Bed, Masters in Teaching (we are not able to accept applicants without this)
- A commitment to both inclusion and excellence in sports to meet the needs of all
- The ability to inspire and motivate a large team of PHE staff, showing excellent leadership, management and administrative skills
- The ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with faculty, support staff and other relevant professionals, parents and students.
- A commitment to pastoral care within the school;
- Experience and commitment to developing students’ skills through being a key leader in our extensive extra-curricular sports opportunities.
- Willing to work flexibly and sometimes at weekends to support student engagement in school sports fixtures.
For enquiries, please direct to Rathi Nandakumar @ 852- 28191962 or Email: rathi.nandakumar@wis.edu.hk
Closing Date: 09 December 2022
To apply, please click here.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and offers may be extended prior to the job closing date.
By applying for this position, your application may be considered for other opportunities within ESF.
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About West Island School - ESF
Strength from Diversity: A Better School, A Better World
Welcome from Hong Kong and from an outstanding International school comprising over 50 nationalities in the heart of Asia.
We are a happy, dynamic and hugely successful school established in the best traditions of the English Schools Foundation. The ESF exists to provide excellence in learning for Hong Kong based students of all abilities, nationalities, cultures and beliefs who would like to be educated through the medium of English.
Our school is housed in an exciting and innovative environment from which we can see the University, Hong Kong’s largest teaching hospital, the new cyber port and the busy shipping lanes which demonstrate Hong Kong’s key position on the global superhighway.
We have an outstanding record of high academic attainment through a careful crafting of curriculum to meet our students’ needs. We believe in using best practice from around the world, recruiting excellent practitioners from a variety of countries and using their knowledge and expertise. Our curriculum is taken loosely from the National Curriculum of the United Kingdom in our lower years, IGCSEs form our middle years academic programme and we offer three ESF diplomas to our upper school students with the option to pursue the International Baccalaureate or the Advanced or Intermediate Diplomas especially created for our student cohort.
Throughout the school we practice the belief that learning takes place within and without classroom walls. We believe in experiential learning, the value of creativity, action and service which are core to student experience throughout the school and the power of student leadership, choice and decision making through the empowerment of our “student voice”.
West Island School’s distinction lies in the pursuit of high achievement and attainment in learning through support, encouragement, praise and motivation. We believe that excellence in academic and co curricular learning experiences are of equal importance to provide a basis for a dynamic and enriching life. Central to our philosophy is that our school and those within it can influence the world of today and tomorrow. The quality of the relationships between staff and students and within the student body is excellent and draws upon a wide diversity of nationalities, cultures and beliefs which we believe enriches and strengthens our school. Above all else West Island school is a happy school where people are valued and where all individuals who are part of our community can fulfil their potential as learners: whether student, parent, teacher or para professional.
These claims were validated by the Hong Kong Education Department which after inspection categorized our school as an “Outstanding School”. We are the only international school in Hong Kong to have received this prestigious award.
The English Schools Foundation (ESF) was established in 1967 and is the largest education foundation in Asia offering a liberal education through the medium of the English language to children of school age. ESF now operates five secondary schools, nine primary schools, two “all-through” Private Independent Schools, five kindergartens and a school for students with special needs. Our 18,000 students are drawn from over 75 nationalities. Increasingly, our schools are also the destination of choice for local families.
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