Rowing Coach
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Buckinghamshire
- New
- Salary:
- Pay Range 2/11 (£24,879). Actual annual salary £15,801.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- November 2024
- Apply by:
- 25 October 2024
Job overview
23.5 hours per week • 52 weeks per year • One Year Fixed Term contract
As the role is part time there maybe the opportunity to offer a second contact for cover support
Borlase Rowing Club was established in 1921 and is known for its competitiveness in rowing and particularly sculling at national and international level. The club has enjoyed substantial successes at the National Schools’ Regatta and Junior World Championships and is particularly associated with success inThe Fawley Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. This is an exciting time to join the boat club.
The club has over 240 members from Year 8 to Year 13, boys and girls, who train on the river at Marlow, a 15 minute walk from the school. The Director of Rowing will report to the Director of Sport and PE and to the Headteacher. The highly committed Parents Support Group fund junior coaches and members of the teaching staff also contribute to coaching. The school is proud of its excellent fleet of boats, blades and gym equipment. We currently row out of Longridge and have recently had planning permission granted for a new Boat House.
The Role
The school seeks to appoint a talented and inspirational Rowing Coach who has outstanding technical understanding as well as top class crew management skills, to help deliver and build on the school’s vision for rowing. The successful candidate needs to have the passion, drive and commitment to help contribute to a high performance sculling centre developing athletes to go on and compete in The Fawley Challenge Cup and the Diamond Jubilee Cup, and in other boat types including eights across the major regattas and competitions. The role requires a flexible approach to working with attendance at Head and Regatta racing as well as weekend training.
Please do contact us with any queries or if you would like to discuss your situation with us first.
For an application form please visit www.swbgs.com and click on Vacancies.
Applications submitted via email should be sent to Mrs Lynn Cupitt-Jones, HR at lcupitt-jones@swbgs.com
Closing date: 9am, Friday 25 October 2024
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should suitable candidates apply before the closing date.
The school is fully committed to the DfE guidance on Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education and all candidatesfor the post will therefore be subject to vetting procedures following Buckinghamshire Council’s guidance and the Trust’s Safer Recruitment Policy.
All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of the safer recruitment process.
Attached documents
About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- West Street, Marlow
- Buckinghamshire
- SL7 2BR
- United Kingdom
About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School:
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in the attractive Thames-side town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Founded in 1624 and still based on the original site, we are proud of our heritage as we approach our 400th birthday and excited to be inspiring and empowering the aspirations of our students today. Borlase is forward-looking; in 2019 we were awarded World Class School status from High Performance Learning for our innovative practice and received a government grant of over £2million to develop further our excellent facilities. We have a motivated staff of subject specialists who enjoy sharing their expertise with committed and engaged students. As a Teaching School, we have a particular strength in developing our teachers through a research-engaged professional development programme.
Headteacher
Ed Goodall.
Vision and Values
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is committed to being an inspirational learning environment for students and staff, empowering young people to fulfil their aspirations and ambitions; supporting them in developing the confidence to shape their own futures and in so doing, the future of the world around them.
Our values today are captured in the school motto, adopted by those early scholars back in 1624. Te Digna Sequere - Follow things Worthy - is a principle that underpins the distinctive ethos of the school. It reminds us all that we should have a clear moral purpose behind the choices we make; that we should value all individuals within a supportive community and that we have the potential to use our different talents to make a positive difference at Borlase and beyond.
The Borlase Curriculum provides a breadth and depth of academic learning and cultural experience to excite and extend all our students. It is rich in knowledge and in opportunities to develop creativity, instilling a life-long enthusiasm for learning. Our curriculum is delivered by passionate, specialist teachers who encourage aspiration, intellectual curiosity and the exploration of their subject disciplines inside and beyond the classroom, as independent thinkers and learners. It includes a broad range of super and extra-curricular opportunities which ignite and extend students' interests, enthusiasm and skills across a wide range of endeavours including those linked to academic subjects, to sports, the arts, engineering, AI, public speaking, creative writing, entrepreneurism and so much more.
Ofsted
"This is an outstanding school. The headteacher and senior leadership team have the very highest of expectations and have developed an inspirational learning culture which is embraced by both staff and students. Teaching and achievement are of the very highest quality and students take responsibility for their own learning.”
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