Librarian
Godstowe School
Buckinghamshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2021
- Apply by:
- 30 April 2021
Job overview
Godstowe School is an independent day and boarding school for girls aged 3 to 13 and for boys aged 3 to 7. We have approximately 440 pupils with a community of approximately 70 full boarders from the UK as well as other countries around the world, adding an important international and multi-cultural dimension to the school.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced librarian to manage our Library, encouraging a love of reading amongst all pupils and providing a professional library service to the children and staff. The role also involves co-ordinating the Accelerated Reader scheme, which is firmly embedded in the English curriculum.
Godstowe places reading and the Library at the heart of the School. The position would suit someone with experience of working with children and will require teamwork, flexibility, compassion, resilience and a good sense of humour. Our aim is for all our pupils to grow up as confident, happy and successful individuals. Although non-selective at entry, Godstowe pupils thrive in terms of examination results, enrichment, art, musical and sporting achievement. Their love of reading is evident.
This is a full time position during term time (40 hours per week, i.e. 8.30am to 4.30pm Mondays to Fridays), with an additional three weeks per annum to be worked during the School holidays.
The Salary offered will be competitive and will reflect the post holder’s qualifications and experience.
To apply for the position, please review pertinent information relating to the vacancy on our website at www.godstowe.org/vacancies
You should read our Safeguarding and Recruitment policies, then complete our application form and send it, together with a covering letter, to the Headmistress, Ms Sophie Green. Applications should be submitted either via email to the HR & Compliance Officer, Mrs Gundula Ackermann at hr@godstowe.org or by post to Godstowe Preparatory School, Shrubbery Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP13 6PR.
Closing date: Friday 30 April 2021.
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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