Graduate Gap Assistant for January 2025
Cothill House School
Oxfordshire
- New
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 December 2024
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of the country’s leading boarding Prep Schools. The successful applicant will be a recent graduate with an enthusiasm for working with children.
This role would suit someone looking for a varied school-based role where they would get involved in lessons, sports and boarding provision. It might suit someone considering teaching as a career or someone looking to enjoy a busy and rewarding post-graduate gap year.
Cothill is a thriving, family-run preparatory day and boarding school for boys surrounded by extensive grounds in the heart of rural Oxfordshire yet just seven miles from Oxford. Coupling a fine tradition with innovation, Cothill provides a happy, secure and stimulating environment, Our pupils quickly learn how to live alongside each other, form firm friendships, and develop their talents and social skills for life. Our recent ISI inspection saw us rated as 'Excellent' for both the academic and personal development of the pupils. From September 2025 the school will transition to co-educational status.
Whilst we have had much success winning academic, sport, music and art scholarships, we never lose sight of the fact that we are preparing pupils, not just for examinations, but for life. Our main role is to be guardians of childhood!
To find out more, please see our website, Instagram and Twitter feeds.
Closing Date for Applications: Wednesday 4th December 2024 at midday. Interviews to take place on Monday 9th December.
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About Cothill House School
Set in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside, just outside Oxford, Cothill House has been providing an inspirational all-round boarding education and unrivalled opportunities for boys aged 8-13 for 150 years. From September 2025 Cothill will transition to a co-educational school.
Established in 1870, Cothill is recognised globally as one of the country’s leading boys’ boarding prep schools with an exceptional record of preparing pupils for the top public schools.
Our aim is to foster every pupil's happiness, confidence and individual passions, helping them to achieve their potential, to cultivate their love of learning and to stimulate their love of life. Cothill pupils flourish in an environment where hard work, integrity and originality are both valued and rewarded.
Our Aims
Cothill House provides an inspirational education and unrivalled boarding opportunities for pupils in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside where:
- Each pupil is treated as an individual, nurtured and encouraged to find his strengths and develop his independence.
- Staff instil a love of discovery and learning amongst the pupils, encourage a growth mindset and build their confidence.
- Pupils are prepared for the challenges they will encounter at the next stage of their education and beyond.
- Pupils are encouraged to embrace teamwork, be happy, busy and polite.
- The qualities of leadership, personal responsibility, kindness, truthfulness and respect for others are nourished.
- A wide range of opportunities are provided to inspire, enable and embolden all pupils, and assist in their personal, social, academic, physical and cultural development.
- To provide a friendly and caring boarding environment that reflects the atmosphere and ethos of home.
- To safeguard and promote the physical and mental welfare of every pupil.
Our Values
Courage - To help pupils to have courage on the sports field and the courage of their convictions in the classroom
Originality - To promote the creative side of every pupil
Teamwork - To create an environment in which teamwork is highly valued
Humour - To ensure the challenges of everyday life are tackled with a sense of perspective and good humour
Integrity - To develop confident, self-disciplined pupils who understand and value integrity
Love of Learning - To instil in pupils a passion for learning about the world
Love of Life - To help pupils acquire knowledge and skills that will enable them to prosper in later life
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