Specialist Nursery/EYFS Teacher
Streatham and Clapham Prep School
Lambeth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 27 March 2019
Job overview
Streatham & Clapham Prep School is seeking a dynamic and innovative Specialist Nursery/EYFS teacher to join its talented and committed Prep team and play a key role in the development of the EYFS curriculum and the performance of the EYFS staff team.
Working closely with our Head of Foundation, you will ensure that our youngest girls have the best possible care and experience a broad, balanced, relevant and stimulating curriculum that gives each child an opportunity to achieve to the maximum of her capability.
You will plan work for classes in accordance with GDST and school policies and create a secure, happy and stimulating classroom environment, maintaining the highest standards of organisation and discipline.
The role allows some scope to work with girls of other ages, and interests in other areas such as Philosophy 4 Children, Talk for Writing, PE and coding would be most welcome.
You will be educated to degree level, with qualified teacher status and experience relevant to EYFS and the ability to demonstrate evidence of raising expectations and standards. Far more important, though, are enthusiasm, flexibility, a sense of fun and an ability to bring out the best in pupils.
About Streatham & Clapham Prep School
Streatham & Clapham Prep School is a vibrant, exciting and fulfilling place in which to work. The leadership team of the school promotes a vision of education that is liberal and humane in its approach.
The school is characterised by a warm, welcoming and supportive atmosphere. Members of the Common Room are supportive of each other, and this ethos of support is reflected by the ease of access that all members of staff have to the leadership team. Relationships with pupils are respectful, purposeful and warm. New colleagues are supported through a personalised induction programme.
All members of staff benefit from a highly regarded central training and personal development programme and access to a GDST-wide virtual learning environment that gives opportunity for discussion and exchange of information with colleagues in other Trust schools. Staff are also entitled to an interest-free season ticket loan, reduced BUPA subscription, and free lunches during term time.
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 27 March 2019.
Streatham & Clapham 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 Streatham and Clapham Prep School
Streatham & Clapham High School is an independent, academically selective school for girls aged 3–18. There are about 650 pupils on the roll. Girls aged 3-11 and boys aged 3-5 attend the Nursery and Junior School, located in spacious buildings with outstanding facilities in Streatham Hill. The Senior School inhabits a four-acre site focused on an imposing 1930s building in a delightfully tranquil and leafy oasis of south London, where the soundscape is dominated by birdsong.
The ability profile of the school is significantly above the national average, with a proportion of pupils being far above the national average. The 2010 Independent Schools Inspectorate report noted that ‘the outstanding personal development of pupils of all ages demonstrates that the school meets its aim of developing girls who are happy, confident and inspired to meet the challenges of life and work’. The school is in the top 20% of independent schools in terms of its recent A Level results, and, as such, Streatham & Clapham High School is one of the highest-performing schools in the UK.
Many girls live locally and an increasing number walk or cycle to school, encouraged by the school’s commitment to sustainable travel. The Senior School is 10 minutes’ walk from Streatham Hill National Rail station and twenty minutes from Balham National Rail and Underground. Other pupils come from further afield, including Battersea, Clapham, Wandsworth, Dulwich, Tooting and Brixton. The school is also within easy reach of the theatres, museums and galleries of central London.
Streatham & Clapham High School is a distinguished historical foundation. It was founded, as Brixton High School, in 1887 by the Girls’ Public Day School Trust as one of its earliest member schools. Between 1895 and 1993 the whole school was located at Wavertree Road, SW2, the current site of the Junior School. In 1994 the Senior School moved to the Abbotswood Road site into the buildings of the former Battersea Grammar School, and since then there has been a major capital investment programme by the Girls’ Day School Trust to extend and improve the school’s facilities.
As such, the school has first-class facilities for learning, providing an environment that enables girls to develop their interests and strengths both inside and outside the classroom. The school keeps up-to-date with new teaching methods and innovative techniques, such as interactive on-line learning, and use them to engage and extend its pupils. The facilities include two ICT suites, a Music suite including a dedicated music technology suite, a Recital Hall, two Design & Technology workshops, a full-size indoor Sports Hall, Dance and Art studios, and Sports pitches and tennis courts.
The school’s broad and enlightened curriculum offers an inspiring and intellectually challenging education for its pupils in a lively, vibrant and warmly supportive environment. The family ethos of Streatham & Clapham High School enables us to know, value and nurture each pupil as an individual. We celebrate diversity and draw strength from the school’s rich social and cultural mix.
This reflects the school’s belief that all members of the school community should be inspired to outperform expectations on a daily basis. The pursuit of excellence is thus the school’s defining feature. It nurtures pupils to attain success across the widest spectrum of activity, extending far beyond the conventional ‘academic’ horizon. In so doing, they learn the beauty of reason, the allure of the aesthetic, and the vitality of the physical. The school’s pupils, whether they are very able or late developers, learn to navigate the landscape of the human spirit and achieve beyond the realms of expectation.
Intrinsic to our pupils’ success are our expert and alert pastoral systems. The care we extend to all pupils enables them to make outstanding progress, both academically and in their personal development. They mature into confident, accomplished and well-adjusted young women, prepared for the challenges of university education and their future careers.
Equally, they are attached to ideals which will colour their actions and decisions throughout their adult lives.
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