Key Stage 1 Teacher
Somerhill
Kent
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive based on qualification and experience on the Somerhill pay scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 13 May 2021
Job overview
Somerhill
Teacher Job Description - Pre Prep School
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic dynamic and dedicated Teacher for our school who demonstrates a desire to contribute to a successful, vibrant school. We are looking for a teacher with experience gained across Key Stage 1 and an interest in EYFS or Digital Literacy. We would also welcome applications from NQTs.
Somerhill Pre-Prep is one of the three sections at Somerhill. It is a co-educational school, comprising of an Early Years department and Key Stage 1 department. There are approximately 200 pupils, ranging in age from rising 3 to 7 years. There are currently just over 30 full and part-time staff, including One-to One Learning Support Assistants and specialist teachers. Somerhill Pre-Prep provides families the opportunity to start their child’s learning in a school environment prior to statutory school age. Our Early Years department currently comprises of two Pre-School classes, offering a mixed age range environment for Rising 3 and Rising 4 year olds and three Reception classes. There are three Year 1 and three Year 2 classes. We are a mixed ability school and pride ourselves on developing each child to their full potential, both academically and socially.
Somerhill Pre-Prep is an IAPS school, and the majority of our children continue their learning at our prep sections. The boys can join Yardley Court, which currently has 250+ pupils, at Year 3 and they will stay until Year 6 (11+) or Year 8 (13+ Common Entrance). The girls can join Derwent Lodge which currently has 135+ pupils aged 7 to 11 years. Overall, there are 600+ pupils here on site at Somerhill. The schools are all based in a stunning Jacobean mansion set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland.
More details of our school can be found on our website: www.somerhill.org.
At Somerhill Pre-Prep, our goal is to ensure pupils are offered a range of stimulating and engaging experiences to develop a life-long interest and enjoyment of learning for everyone.
Further details on the role as well as the application process can be found in our Job Description. Please note that we do not accept CVs in place of a Somerhill application form as we require the same range of information from all of our candidates. Our Somerhill application form can be found on our website http://www.somerhill.org/558/about-us/employment-opportunities/key-stage-1-teacher
Completed applications should be submitted to jmay@somerhill.org.
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About Somerhill
Ours is a very special school with a unique structure in this part of the world. We have a coeducational pre-prep of 200 boys and girls aged three to seven. At the end of Year Two, in the same way as for ‘diamond model’ schools, our girls join Derwent Lodge, (136 girls from Year Three to Six) and the boys join Yardley Court (250 boys from Year Three to Eight). Our pupils are, therefore, taught in single sex classes from the age of seven but very much in a coeducational setting. More details can be found on our website: www.somerhill.org.
The school is based in a stunning Jacobean mansion, set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland. You will be hard-pressed to find a more glorious setting for a school! Somerhill is an estate just to the south of Tonbridge and is readily accessed by a slip road off the A21. We have excellent facilities including a multi-purpose sports hall, astroturf, new dining hall, indoor swimming pool complex and music centre built in 2014.
Ours is a mixed ability school. We have very bright and capable pupils and are one of the largest 11+ grammar school feeders in Kent. We also have a strong record of obtaining scholarships to top independent secondary schools, such as Tonbridge and Sevenoaks, at 11/13+. We also have boys and girls who find aspects of their learning more challenging and currently approximately 60+ pupils receive some measure of additional support.
When girls leave Derwent Lodge, many of them go to the Kent grammar schools and others go on to Sevenoaks School, Kent College, Walthamstow Hall, Mayfield, and other independent and state schools. Of the boys who leave Yardley Court at 11+ many go to the local grammar schools. For boys leaving at 13+, Tonbridge School is the most popular destination. Others join Sevenoaks School, Bede’s, Eastbourne, Caterham, and Sutton Valence.
Whilst Somerhill has some 600 pupils, the division into three separate sections means that each section can tailor its teaching to best suit the children within it. Parents feel that they have the best of both worlds with small care and linked pupil/teacher ratios but with larger school facilities and social opportunities. They are very supportive of the idea behind a coeducational pre-prep leading to single sex prep sections, but within a mixed gender environment.
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