Assistant Director of Sport
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive, plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2026
- Apply by:
- 16 June 2025
Job overview
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic teacher with a passion for sport to help shape and deliver an ambitious physical education provision at Wimbledon High School.
Working closely with the Director of Sport, you will oversee the development and delivery of the PE curriculum, ensuring high standards of teaching, learning and assessment. With additional responsibility for academic PE, you will help maintain a sporting provision that equips students with the confidence, skills and expertise they need to succeed.
Additionally, you will support the day-to-day running and coordination of the department, including examination entry, staffing and cover arrangements, and timetabling. You will also play a key role in the continued growth and success of sport at Wimbledon High, fostering a culture of participation and excellence in our vibrant co-curricular provision.
We are looking for a highly motivated teacher with experience in delivering PE to students from Key Stage 3 to 5. Excellent professional and subject knowledge is essential, along with a commitment to co-curricular sport and a willingness to attend after school/weekend practices and fixtures. Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills will also be essential for success in this role.
Sport at Wimbledon High School
Sport is an integral part of life at Wimbledon High School and we have impressive facilities to match our ambitions for our students. Inspiring teaching and coaching at all levels ensures each girl is supported to reach her potential, whilst enjoying the benefits of an active lifestyle.
On the main school site we have a 25m swimming pool, sports hall with cricket nets, a fully equipped gym and designated space for strength and conditioning. Our sportsground, the original home of the All England Club, has numerous tennis/netball courts, a full size astro pitch for hockey and football, cricket nets and excellent athletics facilities.
About the School
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Monday 16th June 2025.
Interviews will take place on Monday 23rd June 2025.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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