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Teacher of Physics/Science

Teacher of Physics/Science

Ardingly College Senior

West Sussex

  • Expiring soon
Salary:
Competitive
Job type:
Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2025
Apply by:
24 January 2025

Job overview

This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated teacher to join a successful Science department from 2025 on a permanent basis. This post would suit an enthusiastic, well-qualified and talented Science or Physics teacher with excellent subject knowledge, innovative pedagogical thinking, and strong practical and organisational skills. The role would be suited to teachers new to the profession, in ECT years, recent graduates or those with more experience.

Applications are invited for a KS3/4 Science teacher to teach all Sciences from Year 7 to 11 or as a Science teacher with an A Level Physics specialism to teach KS3/4/5. All specialist teachers are expected to teach KS3 Science. We are seeking a full-time member of staff, though applications for part-time will be considered, and you should indicate this on the application form, including your preference of full-time equivalent teaching load.

The Science faculty recently moved to a new £4 million STEM building. The new building offers 12 modern laboratories, as well as classrooms and a Design & Technology suite. Built to a very high specification to provide a modern, innovative, 21st-century teaching space, the new facility facilitates the delivery of an inspiring Science curriculum. The Physics department itself – comprised of four teachers and one specialist technician – benefits from dedicated laboratory and office space and is fantastically well supplied both in terms of practical and academic resources.

The Science department follows the Edexcel IGCSE specification, with pupils studying Science as part of a Triple, Double or Single Science programme. The Physics IGCSE results are excellent, with 63% of pupils achieving a grade 9 and 100% awarded 9–6 overall in 2024. IB and A Level results are also particularly strong, with 86% of students achieving an A*–B grade at A Level and 70% of candidates achieving 7–6 in the IB, both in 2024. The department is particularly proud of its record in adding value to students, an academic strength of the College as a whole. Physics is a popular university route for Ardingly College leavers, with students in recent years going on to study at Cambridge, Imperial, Bath, UCL, Bristol and Nottingham.

Physics is a popular pathway for Ardinians at A Level and in the IB Diploma. Enthusiasm for the subject is also fostered through field trips both within the UK and overseas, including to the LHC at CERN or the more local Herstmonceux Observatory. The Physics Department is also proud to have its very own observatory and fleet of telescopes that students have used to carry out their own research projects.

Ardingly College looks after the welfare and professional development of all staff and enables them to live and work with a strong sense of purpose and satisfaction. The College provides a collegiate, supportive and stimulating environment in which to work. A generous remission for teaching staff children is available at the College. Currently, Nursery fees are discounted at 50% (pro rata), and from Reception to Sixth Form, remission increases to 65% (pro rata), assuming a place is available and entry requirements are met.

Remuneration is pensionable. From January 2021, the College offered all teachers the Aviva Pension Trust for Independent Schools (APTIS), which provides the teacher with flexibility between salary and pension contributions and includes Death in Service cover of three times salary. Further details regarding our generous employer contribution rate towards the private teachers’ pension scheme are available upon request. We also offer discounted private health care and access to a Health Cash Plan Scheme giving financial support towards the costs of optical, dental, and medical costs.  

During term-time, all staff are provided with a hot or cold lunch from the staff dining room or a grab-and-go option. Staff also have access to a range of additional benefits, such as gym membership, staff swimming, other sports and wellbeing activities and various social events.

The total remuneration offered represents a salary, pension and benefits package that reflects the substantial contribution made by teaching staff towards the success of the College.

Please visit Working here - Ardingly to find out everything the College has to offer and all the benefits available to our staff.

To view the full job description and apply online, please visit www.ardingly.com/vacancies

Closing date: 5.00pm on 24 January 2025.

Ardingly College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 2–18, a member of the HMC and a school of the Woodard Corporation.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are required to undertake child protection screening appropriate to the post, including enhanced DBS checks.

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About Ardingly College Senior

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Ardingly College is a successful and modern co-educational school in a beautiful and traditional school setting in West Sussex.

The Prep School has over 200 pupils from Reception to Year 6, as well as a Nursery. Reception and KS1 are based in the Farmhouse and Years 3–6 in the main school building, School House. The Prep School lives and breathes the values of Shaping My World, through which primary-aged children learn to explore the world around them in ways that are adventurous, curious, generous, and ingenious.

The Senior School has over 800 students from 11 to 18, 300 of whom are boarders. The school puts the values of Collaboration, Compassion, Engagement and Resilience at the heart of its education and strives to help its students to become ready for the next stage of their lives beyond school in a programme known as World Ready. Students are drawn from the South-East and London as well as abroad, and a modest but growing endowment supports a bursary programme for talented students with limited financial means. In recent years, the College has educated half a dozen Ukrainian and Afghan refugee children free of charge.

The wellbeing and welfare of our students is paramount, with a strong emphasis on pastoral support provided through house staff, the Health & Wellbeing Centre, the Chaplain, the DSL and the Mental Health Lead. In the most recent ISI inspection of educational quality in 2018, the College was judged excellent for both student achievement and personal development, and in 2021, the College passed all elements of the Regulatory Compliance Inspection.

The curriculum is designed to be broad and stimulating, with over 25 subjects offered and a choice of A Level, IB Diploma or BTEC courses in the Sixth Form. Academic results are high and have been on an upward trajectory since 2015. Results in 2023 surpassed those achieved by the pre-pandemic 2019 cohort, with 90% of Sixth Form candidates achieving grades between A* and B at A Level, or 7–5 in the IB Diploma. At GCSE, two-thirds achieved between grades 9 and 7, with 48% scoring all 9s and 8s. All except a small handful of leavers progress to one of their top choices of university, with between five and eight each year to Oxbridge.

The College offers an outstanding range of co-curricular activities based on inclusive participation as well as excellence. In sports, students compete successfully at local, regional, and national levels in the main sports of football, hockey, swimming, netball, cricket, and athletics. Music, Art, Drama and Dance are equally thriving, with exciting programme of concerts, performances and exhibitions. In this, as in all ways, the school aims to live up to one of its mantras that nobody can excel in everything, but everyone can excel in something.

Local and global partnerships are integral to the College’s mission. Every week, hundreds of Ardingly pupils participate in an active voluntary service programme with the local community and primary schools, and the College sustains a STEM partnership with Ifield Community College, which was awarded the TES STEM project of the year in 2020. Internationally, the College opened its first overseas school in China in 2020 and is currently planning towards further schools in Kazakhstan and other geographies.

Campus facilities are excellent, with considerable recent investment in the College campus bringing it up to the highest school standards. Recent additions include a new STEM faculty and upgrades to classrooms, as well as major refurbishments of boarding and day houses. A new café and dance studio were opened in 2021 and new Lower School and a third day boys’ house in 2022.

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