PE / Games Teacher
St John's College School
Cambridgeshire
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- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 26 April 2019
Job overview
A dedicated and well-qualified full time PE & Games Teacher is required to join an established department from September 2019.
Reporting to the Director of Sport, the post offers outstanding opportunities to teach PE and coach a wide range of team sports within a large and highly successful department in one of the country’s leading independent schools.
St John’s has a national reputation for the quality of education and care it provides. We are committed to sports and expressive arts as core curriculum subjects and as essential components in fostering the children’s development.
The post involves the teaching of team sports in the 4-13 age range. Along with teaching of PE (including swimming), the successful candidate will need to offer Rugby, Hockey and Cricket as well as possibly Netball.
A willingness to contribute to the wider development of Sports through extra-curricular activities, involvement in tournaments at weekends, arranging and contributing to trips and tours, is essential. All full-time staff are expected to contribute to after school activities through clubs.
St John’s College School is an independent co-educational school with approximately 480 children aged 4-13, which has long enjoyed a national reputation for the exceptional quality of education and care it provides.
The successful candidate will have experience of teaching PE and Games to children of the prep school age range. You will ideally hold QTS status (although this is not essential), along with a good honours degree and either current first aid and swimming lifesaving qualifications, or the commitment to undertake the necessary training.
Please see the attached application pack for full details of the job description and application notes. You can apply online via the TES website or complete the downloadable application form and send to recruitment@sjcs.co.uk. Applications should reach the Headmaster no later than 5pm on Friday 26th April 2019.
St John’s College 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.
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About St John's College School
Set in the heart of Cambridge, St John’s College School has long enjoyed and deserved a national reputation for the exceptional quality of education and care it provides, which focuses on fostering the aptitudes and nurturing the growth of each child. St John’s has been awarded national Best Prep School and national Best Prep School Head awards in the Tatler Schools Awards. Its teaching has been rated ‘inspirational’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate and it is the first of the very few to have achieved the coveted ‘exceptional’ grade for children’s attainment. At St John’s, we believe in a childhood filled with affection, in which children know that they are known and valued, in which they learn to trust themselves and each other, in which they find and express their voice, discover the difference they can make for themselves and others, learn to think for themselves, to question, to collaborate, to be independent, to own and take charge of their learning and their lives.
A curriculum that believes in children draws from them the highest and the deepest levels of attainment. Though we are not selective in our Kindergarten, our children are on average at the 85th centile on national tests or ability before they leave. Our exam results are outstanding and our 60 leavers gain on average around 25 scholarships to the strongest schools. Up to one-third of our past pupils in due course gain Oxbridge places each year, more than in the most academically selective of schools: our children continue to be exceptional learners.
The School is located in leafy Grange Road, a short walk across the playing fields from the centre of town and the College, at the heart of which sits the Chapel, home to the internationally renowned College Chapel Choir. The School site has undergone significant rebuilding or redevelopment in the last five years to ensure the facilities, layout and fabric of the buildings fully support the delivery of the School’s ethos.
The majority of children proceed at 13+ to day schools in Cambridge, each of which sets its own Entrance exams, predominantly in English and Maths. About one-third of the children proceed at 13+ to boarding schools via Common Entrance while others will proceed via Academic Scholarship examinations.
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