Director of Sport, Ashford Prep School
Ashford School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Sept 2024 / Jan 2025
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2024
Job overview
September 2024 (or January 2025)
Full Time, Permanent - Competitive salary dependent on experience and qualifications
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding full-time Director of Sport to be based at Ashford Prep School from September 2024. Applications from fully qualified sports teachers will be considered, especially those with knowledge of and experience of teaching a range of different sports. This is an exciting new position within a forward-thinking and ambitious department with a rapidly growing regional and national reputation for Sport.
The Director of Sport (Prep School) will shape and lead the PE and Games provision at Ashford Prep School for children aged 3-11. They will articulate a clear philosophy and vision for strategic development and will settle for nothing less than excellence both in coaching and teaching, ensuring that children of all abilities enjoy their sports and activities, have a good balance of exercise, and that sport plays a positive role in the development of their confidence and self-esteem.
Resources for Sport at Ashford School are extensive. Two swimming pools, a fitness suite, dance studio, two sports halls and two full size flood lit astroturf pitches. Grass pitches totaling 25 acres have been developed and include three cricket squares and four rugby and three football pitches. The department consists of PE and games specialists, external coaches, members of the wider common room and a cross-site sports administrator. These resources are in place to support the schools’ competitive sport for all ethos. Our sports programme is accessible to all and tailored to meet the aims of our pupils.
Applications are invited from graduates, teachers and coaches with the qualifications and sufficient experience to enhance Ashford School’s growing reputation for sporting inclusivity and excellence.
Salary by negotiation and dependent on skills, attributes, and qualifications of the successful candidate.
Note - We reserve the right to interview and offer to a strong candidate prior to the closing date. It is strongly recommended that candidates submit their applications as soon as possible.
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About Ashford School
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Ashford School is one of the UK's leading coeducational independent day and boarding school, founded in 1898. Ashford has all the benefits of being a school of individual character, coupled with the security and support offered by membership of the United Learning group of independent schools and academies. We are proud that the School is able to provide a seamless learning journey for children from 3 months to 18 years on a beautiful campus in the heart of Kent.
Ashford School, East Hill:
Our Senior School and Bridge Nursery make up Ashford School’s beautiful 25-acre campus close to the centre of Ashford and surrounded by Kent countryside.
The Senior School occupies a site in a prominent position in the busy and growing commuter town of Ashford and is close to the International Station. It has on-site playing fields, floodlit Astroturf pitch, tennis and netball courts, as well as a recently opened Sports Centre complete with gyms, fitness suite and an indoor swimming pool. The school’s boarding houses are on campus. Further playing fields and sports facilities, including a second floodlit Astroturf pitch, can be found on a 40-acre site adjacent to the Prep School and are well used by both Senior and Prep students.
Ashford School, Great Chart:
Ashford Prep School is situated in the beautiful village of Great Chart on the outskirts of Ashford. The site also includes our Prep School Nursery and in 2018 our custom-designed Stables Nursery opened. The site includes beautiful playing fields, an indoor swimming pool, flood-lit Astroturf pitch, indoor gym and a well-appointed Sports Pavilion.
The early years provision has its own dedicated and well-resourced accommodation and staff.
Our students
Currently, approximately 500 students attend the Senior School (aged 11 to 18), including around 120 boarders. It is expected that the number of Senior School students will increase over the next ten years and developments are being planned to allow for this growth. Around 500 students also currently attend the Prep School and Nurseries (aged 0-11).
Our location
Ashford is extremely well connected. London St Pancras can be reached by train in 37 minutes thanks to Ashford International Station’s position on the High Speed Line (HS1). The Eurotunnel is a 15-minute drive away, and the Port of Dover can be reached in 30 minutes.
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