Cover Supervisor
Gordon's School
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Accommodation available
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 6 December 2021
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of the most successful schools in England.
We seek applicants with high energy levels and good inter-personal skills. The ability to coach a sport would be advantageous and opportunities to gain professional coaching qualifications will be available.
Set in a beautiful 45-acre Surrey site, the School enjoys excellent facilities and academic reputation. Gordon’s is also recognised in the top tiers of school sport nationally, particularly rugby, football, netball, hockey and golf.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Core Duties
• Supervise academic work that has been set by a teacher (Periods 1 to 6, until 3.30pm).
• Lead or supervise co-curricular activities between 4-5pm and Saturday mornings.
• Provide up to 5 hours of House cover per week, at the discretion of the Head of House
• Lead up to 3 evening activities per week until 9pm for residential boarders
• One afternoon per weekend (24 weekends out of 36) contributing to the weekend residential boarding activity programme
Additional Duties
(when not required to cover academic periods, reporting to the Director Sport)
• Help with the organisation of practical equipment in PE, including preparation and storage
• Consult with and inform the Director of Sport and/or the Head of PE with regard to replacement of sports equipment
• Help with organisation of special events e.g. Sports days / Open evenings / Inter-House
• Ensure that sports pitches and other playing surfaces are safe, clear of litter, broken glass etc. and are fit for purpose, seeking the support of the Site Team as necessary
• Support the grounds team with the preparation of the sports pitches for matches e.g. post protectors, flags, nets, line marking etc.
• Erect and dismantle tennis, cricket, volleyball nets etc.
• Assist with school sports fixtures and departmental administration
• Photocopying/laminating.
Person Specification
• Good educational qualification
• Willing and able to be involved in co-curricular activities, specifically sport
• Ambition to teach, coach or work in an outstanding educational setting
• Experience of working with children of the relevant age
• Competent in the use of ICT
• Ability to work with the minimum supervision and within a team.
• Have ‘affable intensity’: a sense of humour, but retain sharp intensity for what needs to be done and ability to ‘get on with it’
• Understand that teaching is first and foremost about service and ‘going the extra mile' for the students
Gordon’s School is a State Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment – applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate screening including a DBS check.
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About Gordon's School
Gordon’s is a non-selective, co-ed, 11-18 school of circa 1000 students. Unusually for a state school it offers residential boarding facilities to 280 students. Founded in 1885, its historical links with General Charles Gordon have shaped the ethos and sense of tradition that is present within the school today.
Gordon’s places a strong emphasis on standards, academic success and high expectations. Great importance is placed on the quality of teaching in the classroom because of the belief that schools are first and foremost centres for learning.
In the sixth form there are over 350 students taking BTEC and A Level courses. There are five residential boarding houses and six day boarding houses for students. This allows for a high level of care and individual support, excellent staff/student relationships, backed by a structured learning and teaching environment, with high standards of courtesy and self-discipline.
In the school there is a wide variety of sporting and co-curricular activities. Daily over forty clubs offer a range from traditional games, rock-climbing and horse riding to tap dancing, music and drama. The Combined Cadet Force and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme are particularly popular and successful. One unusual feature is the marching Pipes and Drums band, which plays at ceremonial occasions at school and for outside events, when the students wear their ‘blues’ - a form of military uniform featuring the Gordon’s tartan.
School facilities are excellent and include over fifty acres of playing fields, a state-of-the art fitness centre, sports hub including all-weather pitches and coffee shop, and refurbished music and drama block.
The school is situated in fifty acres of Surrey parkland a few miles from the M25, M3 and M4 motorways. Day boarders come mainly from the local villages of West End, Chobham and Lightwater. Residential boarders come for all parts of the United Kingdom and around ten percent from overseas.
The Ofsted Inspection of November 2014 reported, “Gordon’s is an outstanding school in every respect”. Ofsted inspected 27 areas, 26 of which were given grade 1. In particular: -
“Teaching and learning are outstanding”
“The curriculum provision is outstanding”
“Standards are outstandingly high in national tests and GCSE”
“The effectiveness and efficiency of the boarding is outstanding”
“The quality of care provided by the school for the pupils is exceptional”
“Leadership and management are outstanding”
All of this is a tremendous testimony to the hard work and commitment of both students and staff – and is part of the reason why Gordon’s is the most over-subscribed state school in Surrey with over five applications for every place.
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