Head of Junior Department (Academic)
Westbourne House School
West Sussex
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2016
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2016
Job overview
As well as Head of Academics within the Junior School (Years 3 and 4), the post holder must be able to teach the core curriculum subjects, Humanities and some foundation subjects. The successful candidate will need to be able to make a significant contribution to the Games programme at the school, with matches taking place on a Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, following classroom teaching. The major sports are rugby, football, hockey and cricket for the boys, with netball, hockey and rounders for the girls.
Accommodation on campus may be available in the form of a small family home or a one bedroom flat, depending on the successful candidate's individual personal circumstances.
Full details can be downloaded from www.westbournehouse.org (under the news section)
Closing date: Wednesday 18 May 2016
Westbourne House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Westbourne House is a registered Educational Charity.
Westbourne House School, Shopwyke, Chichester, West Sussex PO20 2BH
01243 782739
hr@westbournehouse.org
IAPS co-educational boarding and day school
445 pupils, aged 2½ - 13 years
About Westbourne House School
- Westbourne House School
- Coach Road, Shopwyke, Chichester
- West Sussex
- PO20 2BH
- United Kingdom
Westbourne House is situated just to the east of Chichester in beautiful grounds of over 100 acres. There are approximately 380 boys and girls, aged 2½ -13. Most children go on to major Public Schools across the South.
The school enjoys outstanding facilities. Teaching is extremely well resourced with excellent teaching rooms, the majority equipped with interactive whiteboards; there are also sets of laptops which can be booked for class-based work. There are rooms for Art, Ceramics, ICT, Design Technology and Food Technology, a separate Science block and Music School, as well as a modern, 300 seat theatre/assembly hall. The School also has a large (30 acre) lake on the north boundary for kayaking.
Academic standards are high, with consistently outstanding Common Entrance results together with an excellent scholarship record; last year no fewer than 36 awards and scholarships to senior schools were won across a range of disciplines, totalling 140 over the last five years.
Westbourne House uses the High Performance Learning philosophy to guide all pupils in becoming good learners. The school believes that all pupils have the potential to perform at the highest level regardless of their current performance level. The Advanced Cognitive Performance Characteristics (ACPs) and Values, Attitudes and Attributes (VAAs) of HPL are the “thinking” and “behaviour” characteristic and these are delivered specifically and systematically throughout the curriculum.
The Music and Drama departments also excel consistently: all children are involved in school productions, a large number are members of school choirs and there are regular concerts.
Saturday school consists of sports matches, as well as optional enrichment activities, such as kayaking and coding.
There is a wide variety of sport on offer, and a large number of teams represent the school most Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. As well as extensive playing fields, there is a 25-metre swimming pool, dance studio, sports hall, squash courts and a full-sized astro-turf pitch.
There are around 100 boarders, many of whom board for two or three nights in one of seven houses on the school grounds. The school offers full time boarding allowing the children to further enjoy the beautiful facilities and grounds the school has to offer.
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