Graduate Assistant - Sport
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Bishop Wordsworth's School
Wiltshire
- £11,550 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 01/09/2023
- Apply by:
- 22 January 2023
Job overview
Bishop Wordsworth’s School seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and energetic graduate who will become actively involved in every aspect of school life from assisting with sports coaching, helping on the sports field, covering lessons for absent teachers, invigilating exams, accompanying trips and visits and contributing to the extra-curricular programme in areas where they feel they can bring something extra, be this sport, art, drama or music.
The successful candidate will significantly contribute to the thriving Games programme within an experienced sports department and will have a keen interest in sport with playing and/or coaching experience in one of our major sports. The postholder will be involved in assisting the Development Office with marketing activities, taking responsibility for social media posts and will also be supervising classes in the short-term absence of a teacher across a range of subjects and age groups using plans and resources provided.
The post is ideal for those with an interest in entering the teaching profession or who are looking for a professional experience before following a career outside education. The successful candidate will be a positive influence and be willing to make a significant contribution to the extra-curricular life of the school, including going on trips, Saturday sporting matches and occasional after school and Sunday events, although as this is not a boarding school, evening and weekend duties would be ad hoc and kept to a minimum.
Bishop Wordsworth’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other relevant re-employment checks including satisfactory references and medical clearance.
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About Bishop Wordsworth's School
Bishop Wordsworth's School is a unique school in a unique place. Our founder, Bishop John Wordsworth intended that his school should provide a centre of academic excellence in the heart of Salisbury. Since 1890 Bishop’s has fulfilled that mission and today we educate 1,176 students aged between 11 and 18 and which include approximately 130 girls in our now fully co-ed sixth form. Under the shadow of the Cathedral spire our eclectic buildings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, reflecting the school’s heritage. This creates a very special atmosphere in which students are conscious, on a daily basis, of their part in a long tradition of academic endeavour.
The school has remained true to its founder’s traditions by following three basic aims:
•To encourage all our students to develop their potential to the full by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement;
•To develop in all our students the integrity and the means to face confidently the challenges of a fast changing world;
•To inspire all our students to lead happy, purposeful and responsible lives.
Bishop’s enjoys a hard earned reputation as one of the finest schools in the country. The school is well known for its traditions of excellence, its strong links with the Church of England and the Cathedral, and its sense of pride in the school community. It became an Academy School in March 2011, enhancing its reputation for independence and outstanding quality in education.
Girls were welcomed to the Bishop’s Sixth Form from September 2020 and they now make up around 30% of the 400 Year 12 and 13 students that are on our roll. Standards are very high throughout, both in the curriculum and elsewhere and the young women and men of the sixth form provide outstanding leadership for the rest of the school. Almost all of our students progress to the most competitive universities, with some also securing high calibre degree apprenticeship positions.
Boys take an 11+ selection test for admission to Bishop’s. Academic standards are very high and are duly recognized as such by OfSTED, DfE and the media, but excellence permeates all other areas of school life. School Sport is exceptionally strong, and the traditions in Music and Performing Arts are impressive. The school is characterised by a culture of challenging students to do their best while, at the same time, offering them the support that they need to do really well. Older students are asked to take leadership responsibilities and operate as role models and mentors for those in lower years.
We place great importance on delivering an all round education for all of our students. Bishop’s enjoys an incomparable environment in the shadow of the highest cathedral spire in England, and many major school events take place in the Cathedral during the school year. Facilities for learning and teaching are already excellent, and further development of the school site continues.
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