Houseparent
Gordon's School
West End
- Expired
- Salary:
- Plus 4 bedroom accommodation, free meals during term time, private medical insurance and much more
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 27 March 2023
Job overview
Houseparent(s) for a Boys' Boarding House
Required September 2023.
Family Accommodation Included
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GORDON’S SCHOOL
West End, Woking, Surrey, GU24 9PT
Tel: 01276 858084
Head Teacher: Mr Andrew Moss
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An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the middle leadership team of one of the most successful boarding schools in England, amongst the top schools nationally for GCSE and A Level progress. The successful candidate or candidates will ideally have had some pastoral experience working in an educational setting, but not necessarily in a residential capacity.
We invite single or joint (married or partnership) applications for either a single or joint appointment. Please see the Candidate Booklet for further detail. The position is open to teachers and non-teachers, however, experience in a boarding environment is highly desirable.
Set in a beautiful 50-acre Surrey site, the School enjoys excellent facilities and an aspirational learning environment. Gordon’s is recognised by HM Chief Inspector of Schools as one of Britain’s finest non-selective schools; with circa 950 students including 270 residential boarders and a thriving Sixth Form.
Massively over-subscribed, Gordon’s size ensures that every student is well known and nurtured as an individual. The School has a very strong emphasis on academic standards, self-discipline and traditional values and aims to be much more than just outstanding examination results, providing abundant opportunities outside the classroom and exceptional pastoral care.
We offer:
Attractive and spacious campus, within easy reach of the M3 motorway and London
Well-resourced facilities
Complimentary meals
A shorter academic year than most schools
Access to on-site sport facilities
Generous support for professional development
Opportunities to contribute ideas and develop initiatives that improve the school
Outstanding staff: professional, supportive and committed
Provision of a tablet PC
The opportunity to play your part to help nurture world class global citizens
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For further details about Gordon's visit the school's website
Closing date for applications: 9.00 am on Monday 27 March 2023
Interviews: Thursday 30 March 2023
Tours of the school are available, please contact the Head's PA, Jacqui George, to arrange a tour - jgeorge@gordons.school
The tours dates are:
Wednesday 22 March at 6pm
Friday 24 March at 6pm
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“Boarding is at the heart of the community.” OFSTED
Gordon’s is a Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children - applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate screening including a DBS check
Attached documents
About Gordon's School
Gordon’s is a non-selective, co-ed, 11-18 school of circa 1000 students. Unusually for a state school it offers residential boarding facilities to 280 students. Founded in 1885, its historical links with General Charles Gordon have shaped the ethos and sense of tradition that is present within the school today.
Gordon’s places a strong emphasis on standards, academic success and high expectations. Great importance is placed on the quality of teaching in the classroom because of the belief that schools are first and foremost centres for learning.
In the sixth form there are over 350 students taking BTEC and A Level courses. There are five residential boarding houses and six day boarding houses for students. This allows for a high level of care and individual support, excellent staff/student relationships, backed by a structured learning and teaching environment, with high standards of courtesy and self-discipline.
In the school there is a wide variety of sporting and co-curricular activities. Daily over forty clubs offer a range from traditional games, rock-climbing and horse riding to tap dancing, music and drama. The Combined Cadet Force and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme are particularly popular and successful. One unusual feature is the marching Pipes and Drums band, which plays at ceremonial occasions at school and for outside events, when the students wear their ‘blues’ - a form of military uniform featuring the Gordon’s tartan.
School facilities are excellent and include over fifty acres of playing fields, a state-of-the art fitness centre, sports hub including all-weather pitches and coffee shop, and refurbished music and drama block.
The school is situated in fifty acres of Surrey parkland a few miles from the M25, M3 and M4 motorways. Day boarders come mainly from the local villages of West End, Chobham and Lightwater. Residential boarders come for all parts of the United Kingdom and around ten percent from overseas.
The Ofsted Inspection of November 2014 reported, “Gordon’s is an outstanding school in every respect”. Ofsted inspected 27 areas, 26 of which were given grade 1. In particular: -
“Teaching and learning are outstanding”
“The curriculum provision is outstanding”
“Standards are outstandingly high in national tests and GCSE”
“The effectiveness and efficiency of the boarding is outstanding”
“The quality of care provided by the school for the pupils is exceptional”
“Leadership and management are outstanding”
All of this is a tremendous testimony to the hard work and commitment of both students and staff – and is part of the reason why Gordon’s is the most over-subscribed state school in Surrey with over five applications for every place.
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