PE & Games Teacher
Newton Prep School
Wandsworth, London SW8
- New
- Salary:
- We offer a competitive salary package, above the national teachers' scale for Inner London, plus excellent benefits.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Ideally January 2025 / April 2025 considered for the right candidate.
- Apply by:
- 4 December 2024
Job overview
Newton Prep is a thriving school with outstanding facilities, catering for over 650 pupils, aged 3 to 13, Nursery to Year 8. We are unashamedly ambitious for our pupils and want them to achieve their academic potential whilst also engaging in sport, art, music and drama. Our school is conveniently situated close to Battersea Park and Queenstown Road stations and the new Battersea Power Station.
Our PE Department delivers both the PE and Games curriculum across the school - nurturing and developing the competence, confidence, knowledge and understanding children gain through positive experiences in a range of physical activities and competitive opportunities. Pupils have the opportunity to grow physically and creatively, developing their competitiveness, sportsmanship, teamwork and leadership, leaving Newton Prep with the skills and passion needed for a lifelong involvement in sport and physical activity.
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and hardworking teacher to deliver the PE and Games curriculum to girls and boys in Years 2 to 8, including leading, coaching and officiating our major sports of netball and hockey,
You should have either a recognised teaching qualification in Primary Education eg. BA(Ed) or PGCE, or be a recent graduate looking to secure a permanent position as an Early Careers Teacher. We will also consider an experienced hockey and/or netball sports coach with relevant coaching qualifications.
We offer a competitive salary above the national teachers’ scale for inner London; opportunities for professional development; free on-site parking; staff gym; free school lunches; cycle to work scheme; free ‘travel to work loan scheme’.
For full details please see the attached Candidate Brief, which is also available to download from the school’s website www.newtonprepschool.co.uk along with our application form, These can also be obtained by phoning the HR Department on 020 7720 4091 ext. 1255.
To apply, please complete the application form (ensuring you include the names of two referees and details of your employment since leaving school) and then email this to the HR Assistant at hrassistant@newtonprep.co.uk. Alternatively, forward it via post to the HR Assistant, Newton Prep, 149 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BX.
The closing date for applications is 9.00am on Wednesday 4th December 2024.
Please note: we are not currently accepting applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Formal interviews will be held week commencing 9th December 2024. However, the School reserves the right to interview and appoint this position ahead of any advised application closing date should an appropriate candidate be found. Therefore, it is advisable to submit applications as early as possible.
If you have any queries about the application process, please contact the HR Department on 020 7720 4091 extension 1255.
Newton Prep is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School will carry out online searches on all successful candidates as part of the process of assessing suitability.
Newton Prep is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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About Newton Prep School
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In a London landscape crowded with prep schools, Newton Prep stands out. The school, founded in 1991, has an unbeatable combination of size and eclecticism, coupled with extraordinary facilities and outside spaces. Its position at the heart of Central London’s most burgeoning development, Newton is a short walk away from the Nine Elms to Battersea riverfront. This hosts the bustling new ‘town’ around the rebuilt Battersea Power Station; a new extension of the Northern Line tube now means the school is within five minutes of three stations.
When arriving, visitors and prospective parents always comment on Newton Prep children: they are well-educated, of course, but noticeably curious, kind and articulate. Above all, in this modern world, they are equipped with the best of British values: pupils are encouraged to think for - and be - themselves.
Academic success is central to all that is taught. More than that, however, the school ensures children are equipped with a sense of self, resilience and hopefulness. We encourage children to think outside the curriculum. Whether it’s piano lessons, judo or Boggle, children need ways of engaging: we aim for our Newton Prep children to enter adolescence feeling that they already have more to contribute than just academic achievements. Yes, we need to get them into the right schools, but not at the total expense of their well-being, character and love of learning.
Inspiring a love of learning is central to Newton Prep’s offering. With a huge all-weather pitch capable of supporting four fixtures at a time, a 120-seat recital hall, a music technology suite, recording studio, 300 seat auditorium, three gymnasiums, bustling art studios, dance studios, two libraries and three hands-on science labs, children are encouraged to “do” as well as “learn”. We have an oasis of a garden where our children perform Shakespeare, hunt for mini-beasts and conduct scientific experiments.
Despite the excellence of their education, Newton Prep children are notable for their lack of arrogance; there is no sense of entitlement here. The kindness and generosity shown by the pupils towards their peers is remarkable; we are particularly proud of the engagement between the older children and our youngest pupils.
This spirit of community is also built into the Newton Diploma, our revolutionary humanities curriculum for Years 7 and 8. This is a cross-curricular, rigorous and exciting programme which allows pupils to explore links between subjects, extend initiatives for service and leadership, and breathe real fire into their intellectual curiosity.
We are not a blazers-and-boaters kind of school. As a school only thirty years young, we are not limited to looking back at the past to inform what we do in the future. We focus all our present energies on ensuring a bright future for our bright children. We want Newton Prep children to enjoy their precious childhood years.
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