Houseparent(s)
Dollar Academy
Clackmannanshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Excellent remuneration package
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2024
- Apply by:
- 19 February 2024
Job overview
Dollar Academy, one of Scotland’s leading independent schools, is looking to appoint Houseparent(s) to lead one of our individual boarding houses. The school has been at the heart of Scotland’s educational development for the past 200 years and has recently been named as the Sunday Times Scottish Independent School of the Year 2024.
The Academy is a fast-paced and exciting place to work and live. There is always something new on the go; we drive ourselves hard to achieve excellence in all areas for the benefit of our entire community, but especially for our pupils.
Ensuring that boarding at Dollar Academy maintains its special family ethos Houseparent(s) share the responsibility for the pastoral and personal and social development of the pupils in their care. They share fully in the life of the whole boarding community, contributing to the running of social and other events and working with other Houseparents to sustain and develop the community.
Applications are invited from individuals and couples and from teachers and non-teachers who have a deep interest in the pastoral care of young people.
About Dollar Academy
Dollar Academy was founded in 1818 as the UK’s first co-educational day and boarding school and has been at the heart of Scotland’s educational development for 200 years. The school is the Sunday Times Scottish Independent School of the Year 2018.
Dollar has over 1250 pupils aged 5-18, of whom approximately 75 are boarders. The school’s extensive 70 acre campus is set in a landscape of extraordinary natural beauty at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Central Scotland and is within easy reach of both Edinburgh and Glasgow. Edinburgh airport is conveniently situated and can be reached in 45 minutes.
Dollar is distinguished by its excellence in pastoral care, co-curricular provision and classroom teaching.
Enjoyment of learning lies at the heart of this school and the aim is for all pupils to gain satisfaction from a real commitment to study and participation in the great range of sporting, art and cultural activities on offer.
Dollar pupils undertake internationally recognised SQA examination courses and, in a typical year, over 65% of exam results are at Grade A. Although firmly grounded in the values of Scottish education, Dollar takes a deliberately international approach and the diverse boarding community is at the heart of school life.
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