Paddle Sports Instructor
Claires Court Schools
Windsor and Maidenhead
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive Dependent on Experience
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September / October 2024
- Apply by:
- 27 August 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an energetic part-time Paddle Sports instructor (2 to 4 afternoons a week depending on seasonal demand), to join our Outdoor Education department delivering across all divisions within the School from September 2024.
The ideal candidate will be able to coach paddle sports. There will be opportunities to join expeditions and deliver other activities such as coaching sailing if suitably qualified.
Outdoor Education is an exciting and dynamic department within Claires Court School, delivering a range of canoeing, kayaking and sailing activities, as well as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Due to its increasing popularity, we are now looking to expand our paddle sports team.
Based primarily at our Senior Boys site, the successful candidate will be working with our Head of Outdoor Education and Head of Paddlesports and wider team to help deliver and develop our current canoe and kayaking programme. The majority of our paddle sports is delivered from our base on Ray Mill Island on the River Thames however sessions are also delivered at alternative local sites including swimming pools and lakes throughout the year.
The candidate must be an experienced canoeist and/or kayaker with experience in coaching and developing the skills of young paddlers. Whilst we are ideally looking for an experienced, qualified coach, we will also consider applications from motivated, aspiring coaches who may have worked with a club, school or similar environment, looking to develop their coaching qualifications.
This is a permanent post for between approximately 8 - 16 hours per week (2 to 4 afternoons per week) during term time (12:00 – 16.00 or 18.30 depending on the time of year). The department typically operates Monday through Friday afternoons during term time, but some Saturday/full weekends and some school holiday work may be required.
Claires Court has a vibrant community of staff who spark off one another, share ideas, and come together to help pupils thrive academically, pastorally and in extra-curricular areas.
APPLICATIONS
To apply, please download an application form from our website. Completed application forms may be emailed to recruitment@clairescourt.com (no agencies, please). Alternatively please post completed forms to the following address:-
HR Department
Claires Court Schools Ltd
1 College Avenue
MAIDENHEAD
SL6 6AW
Applications must be received by 8 am on Monday 27 August 2024. Please apply early as applications will be considered upon receipt; we reserve the right to interview/appoint prior to the closing date.
NB: CVs will not be accepted in place of an application form, but may be submitted as additional supporting documentation.
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About Claires Court Schools
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Claires Court Schools are proprietarily owned and operated by Hugh and James Wilding. For those who like their historical facts, Claires Court first opened its doors as a preparatory school in September 1960 led by David and Josephine Wilding – parents of the current owners. In those days Claires Court was a boarding school and Ridgeway one of the boarding houses.
As the demand for boarding reduced, the School gradually moved to a day school to 13 years of age, extending over the years to add GCSE and thus a leaving age of 16.
In 1993 College came under the Claires Court umbrella adding co-ed Nursery provision and in 1994 the co-ed Sixth Form started with 19 boys and 1 girl!
Here therefore was the birth of our unique education – the statutory school years of education with boys and girls separate but meeting for extra curricular activities, the performing arts, departmental trips and so on.
Our achievements are many and varied – never assume that academic excellence is sufficient for our pupils – we want them to experience and achieve so much more and because of this, we offer an absolute fountain of opportunity to ensure that our boys and girls emerge into the world of work or university as well balanced individuals able to move forward in confidence and with competence.
Co-ordinated education for girls and boys from 2 to 18 years
Co-ordinated education means that boys and girls are educated separately but meet together with such activities as sailing, rowing, performing arts as well as day trips and field study courses – the best of both worlds!
Our Nursery and Sixth Form are co-ed whilst the 4 to 16 year olds are educated separately.
We achieve outstanding results at all levels throughout the School with an intake that is non-selective – entry is by report from previous school and interview with the Head.
We aim to educate the whole child, treating each boy or girl as an individual and ensuring they achieve their maximum potential – sometimes far beyond what they believed they were capable of achieving.
Not only are our results excellent, we offer a school day that is brimming with opportunity and variety – both inside the classroom and out.
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