Head of Maths
Horris Hill School
Newbury, Berkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022 (or January 2023)
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2022
Job overview
An opportunity to join the team at one of the UK’s leading boarding and day prep schools.
We are seeking to appoint, ideally for September 2022 (or January 2023), an outstanding Head of Maths to lead teaching and development across the school. We are looking for an organised, able and well qualified mathematician, who is ready to embrace the opportunity to teach beyond the normal prep school level and committed to academic excellence for all pupils at Horris Hill.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about the opportunity to work with some very gifted young mathematicians, but also aware of the importance of building everyone’s confidence in this key subject area - willing to commit extra time to both stretch pupils at the top and reinforce confidence and progress to help those to whom maths does not come quite so readily. Expectations are high and the intellectual rewards are significant from working with a group of potentially high achievers.
Whilst your teaching is likely initially to be classes in the 7-13 age range, we will mould the role around the strengths and enthusiasms of the successful candidate. The successful candidate will bring enthusiasms for many other aspects of school life such as sports and extra-curricular provision, and will be willing to perform boarding duties and contribute fully to a busy full-time boarding school. For full-time staff this usually includes a commitment to teaching on Saturdays during term, in return for generous holidays.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 23rd May 2022.
Horris Hill is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to enhanced DBS and other checks in line with safer recruitment best practice.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Newbury
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About Horris Hill School
Horris Hill is a successful co-educational day and boarding school for children aged 2-13, set in the beautiful Berkshire countryside. The school prides itself on helping its pupils balance the demands of formal education with both creative play and organised sports and activities. Dedicated staff nurture an enduring love of learning and curiosity of spirit that will equip pupils with the skills and confidence for whatever challenges they may face in life. Horris Hill enjoys close relationships with several of the country’s top public schools, and ensures every pupil makes the most of the opportunities available to them so that they can be excited and prepared for the next stage of their educational journey.
Horris Hill is part of Forfar Education, a specialist school investment and advisory business, which partners with and manages schools across the world; supporting them to become outstanding centres of excellence where pupils learn and grow. Forfar Education is committed to working in close partnership with school leadership for the benefit of all pupils, celebrating each school’s identity and strengths.
Our core aim is to maintain Horris Hill as a small, selective, academically rigorous family school coupled with an holistic learning environment. We will continue to prepare children for the next stage in their education and to deliver children into the most academically ambitious schools in the world. Horris Hill’s unrivalled culture, which creates a truly rounded education will remain, and the fundamentals of good British values and manners will be reinforced.
Horris Hill is entering an exciting time of expansion and growth. In September 2022 our beautiful all year-year round Nursery was opened and we opened our doors to girls into the lower school. In September 2023, we will see our first cohort of girls in the upper school, as well as opening a girls boarding house.
Our staffing team are critical to the school’s continued success and you will be joining some excellent recent appointments. We welcomed our new Headmaster, Mr Rob Stewart to the school in September 2022. He has an outstanding track record including being a past Eton Housemaster before his first headship of a leading Prep School.
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