Rugby Coach
Gordon's School
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- plus holiday pay
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 21 April 2023
Job overview
Rugby Coach
Required for September 2023
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most successful schools in England.
We seek highly motivated and inspirational Sports Coach in Rugby to work co-operatively with the Head of Sport and Fitness, and the rest of the PE department, at this ambitious state boarding school. The successful candidates will have experience of coaching and playing rugby to a high level. They will have excellent communication skills with the ability to motivate others.
Closing Date: Friday 21 April at 12pm
Set in a beautiful 50-acre Surrey site, the School enjoys excellent facilities and an aspirational learning environment. Recognised by HM Chief Inspector of Schools as one of England’s finest non-selective schools, Gordon’s has circa 840 students including 240 residential boarders and a thriving sixth form. In 2018, the percentage of students achieving five or more GCSE grades A* to C, including English and mathematics, was over 90%. The A*-C pass rate at A-Level was 95%, with 76% of the grades A* to B. These results rank Gordon's amongst the top non-selective schools in England for progress and attainment.
Massively over-subscribed, Gordon’s size ensures that every pupil 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.
In October 2020 Gordon’s announced the partnership with Harlequins FC to provide a pathway for promising rugby players. The initiative enables rugby players aged between 16 and 18 years old to train in an environment similar to that of a professional club, whilst receiving a first class education.
The School supports players involved in the Harlequins Developing Player Programme (DPP), Surrey and Hampshire county squads, and Surrey Development Squads. Gordon’s School focuses upon the development of the core skills of all students. This allows players to play in any position on the pitch and thus produces complete rugby players. The School competes at local, regional, and national-level competitions, as well as a busy yet competitive domestic fixture list. Gordon’s School has reached the U18 NatWest Bowl Quarter-Finals.
The School hosts a District 12-a-side tournament across all age groups. Each season the boys’ Houses compete in the annual Inter-House Rugby tournament, which proves to be hugely popular. Each season eleven teams regularly play fixtures for the School, ranging from U18A through to U12C.At Gordon’s we believe our attitude is as important as our achievements. Character matters. Talent without ambition, self-discipline and humility is rarely fulfilled and does not inspire others. Win or lose, we want our teams and players to be good role models and mirror the qualities we seek from all our young people: courtesy, integrity, diligence, enthusiasm and resilience.
See attached Job Description and Candidate Booklet for more detail
Closing Date: 21 April at 12pm
Gordon’s School is a Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment – 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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