Director of Co-Curricular
Gordon's School
West End
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary - £80,602
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024 or January 2025
- Apply by:
- 2 May 2024
Job overview
Director of Co-Curricular
Competitive Salary: £80,602
Required September 2024 or January 2025
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GORDON’S SCHOOL
West End, Surrey, GU24 9PT
Tel: 01276 858084
Head Teacher: Mr Andrew Moss
Head Teacher's PA: Mrs Jacqui George
Email: jgeorge@gordons.school
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This is a rare opportunity to join the Senior Leadership Group at one of the best state boarding schools in England. The School is seeking to appoint an innovative and ambitious leader to oversee our extensive and vibrant co-curricular programme.
This is a new and significant senior appointment for the School. In recent years the co-curricular programme has grown considerably, in addition, we have completed the development of our Sports Hub, including new sports hall and second all-weather pitch and the near-completion of our Performing Arts Centre.
The person appointed will be principally responsible for the leadership of the School’s co-curricular provision, however, the role will involve significant whole-school strategic input. The position is open to both teaching and non-teaching staff and is equivalent to a deputy head position. Previous experience in a boarding school is desirable, but not essential.
Set in an attractive 50-acre Surrey site, the School enjoys excellent facilities and an aspirational learning environment. Gordon’s is an academically non-selective co-ed school, with 11 Houses; where all students are considered boarders, with 280 residential boarders, and a thriving sixth form of over 350. High standards are a hallmark of the School with five outstanding Ofsted judgements in the last decade.
Although non-selective, Gordon’s is an academic and active school with an ethos that places students’ co-curricular engagement at the heart of academic success and outstanding pastoral care.
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We offer:
Attractive and spacious campus, within easy reach of the M3 motorway and London
Free on-site parking
Well-resourced facilities
Complimentary meals
Access to the on-site fitness centre
Adjacent to extensive heathland
Generous support for professional development
Outstanding staff: professional, supportive and committed
Provision of a tablet PC
The opportunity to play a part nurturing world class global citizens
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Site visits are encouraged and further details of the post can be found on the attached candidate booklet and job description.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 2 May 2024 at noon.
Interviews: w/b 13 May 2024
Tours of the school are available at the following times:
5.30 on Wednesday 17 April
11.00 on Saturday 20 April
5.30 on Wednesday 24 April
10.30 on Saturday 27 April
4.50 on Monday 29 April
Email the Head’s PA - Mrs Jacqui George - to book a tour - jgeorge@gordons.school
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For further details visit the vacancies page on our website
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“Gordon’s is an outstanding school in every respect.” OFSTED
Gordon’s is a Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children - applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate screening including a DBS check
Attached documents
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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