Director of Sport
Godstowe School
Buckinghamshire
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- Expired
- Salary:
- An attractive remuneration package is offered to reflect the importance of this post | The eventual salary will be negotiable and will depend on experience.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023/January 2024
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2023
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Director of Sport at Godstowe Preparatory School. We are seeking a dynamic, passionate and well qualified individual to lead a strong department.
Godstowe has experienced great success in a number of sports including Lacrosse, Netball, Athletics and Swimming and we pride ourselves on the quality of our curriculum lessons.
Godstowe is a thriving, busy school enjoying a famous reputation in its field. P.E. is taught to every child at Godstowe by a specialist teacher from Reception onwards. The school boasts an enviable range of facilities: a 25-metre four-lane Swimming Pool, a multi-purpose Sports Hall and Dance Studio, floodlit Netball and Tennis Courts, a Lacrosse pitch and Athletics track.
The successful Director or Sport should have proven management skills as well as a track record in playing and coaching to a high standard, ideally in either Netball or Lacrosse.
They will have a passion for sport and be able to lead school teams to a high level. This is an exciting opportunity to lead an inspirational team at a school that prides itself on its sporting activities. We have an extensive sporting programme and there is an expectation that the successful candidate will set an example by taking sports forward as well as leading sporting tours.
If you are ready for a challenge, have a good sense of humour and love teaching, we want to hear from you.
Additional information about the School is available on our website www.godstowe.org
Please see the Candidate Pack for the role available online at https://heyzine.com/flip-book/de274f7e87.html, you can also download a PDF copy using the tab below.
How to Apply:
Please do so using the Tes Quick Apply option. Alternatively, you can download the School’s Application Form from our website www.godstowe.org/our-community/vacancies and, having read our Safeguarding and Recruitment policies, send the completed Application Form and supporting letter via email to HR@godstowe.org
If you have any questions do not hesitate to connect us at HR@godstowe.org
Closing date: 8am, Monday, 17 April 2023
Interview date: W/C 24 April 2023
The School does reserves the right to interview on receipt of applications and to appoint prior to the deadline, so early application is recommended.
Godstowe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check before taking up the post, along with pre-employment safeguarding checks.
Godstowe School, High Wycombe
Independent School for Girls aged 7-13 and Boys aged 3-7
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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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