KS2 Teacher (Art & DT) – Full Time Maternity Cover
Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- January 2018 or earlier
- Apply by:
- 21 September 2017
Job overview
The role
Wimbledon High School is seeking an outstanding KS2 Teacher to join its excellent and popular Junior School.
This maternity cover role will include taking the lead on delivering Art and DT across KS2. Visitors to the School often comment on the outstanding art on display, and you will play a key role in ensuring our young artists and designers are encouraged and inspired to continue their artistic development.
About the Junior School
Life in our Junior School has often been full of such excitement since we introduced our creative curriculum. We tap into children’s natural curiosity and creativity, encouraging their imaginations to flow and their descriptions of what they are experiencing to become ever more elaborate.
Why Wimbledon High School?
Wimbledon High School is a beacon school of the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST), the largest independent school group in the UK. As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, excellent facilities, and a friendly and supportive working environment, the School also offers:
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• Free school lunches
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
If you are committed to high standards in teaching highly motivated girls and have the dedication and enthusiasm to contribute to our extra-curricular programme and happy community we would be delighted to hear from you.
Further details of the position and the application form are available by clicking the apply button.
The closing date is 9am on Friday 22 September 2017.
Interviews will be held on Monday 2 October 2017.
Completed application forms should be emailed to hr@wim.gdst.net
The School reserves the right to commence the interview process at any time prior to the closing date so early application is recommended.
Wimbledon High School 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 and Barring Service.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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