Director of Sport
Moulsford Preparatory School
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Dependent on experience & qualifications, commensurate with industry standards
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 29 January 2024
Job overview
We are seeking an outstanding Director of Sport to join our thriving Prep School from September 2024 to lead and develop our sports offering across all year groups.
Sport at Moulsford is particularly strong with the major sports being rugby, football, hockey and cricket. The successful candidate must be able to promote excellence in coaching, sportsmanship, inclusivity, and breadth of opportunity for all pupils, as well as managing staff, resources and budgets, and coordinating and administrating matches and sports tours.
This is a full-time teaching role which includes leading the Games programme, with the addition of teaching PE and/or a classroom-based subject.
The Director of Sport must demonstrate first class communication and interpersonal skills with both colleagues, parents and pupils verbally and through email and social media channels. You must have outstanding organisational skills coupled with the ability and desire to work closely with other school departments and liaise closely with senior school sports departments.
Devising and delivering a Games Programme of the highest quality for all children in the School regardless of their innate sporting ability will be a central aim of the Director of Sport.
Depending on the experience and qualifications of the candidate, the role of Head of PE may also be included.
Moulsford Prep School is an independent preparatory school for 380 pupils, aged 3 to 13, situated on an idyllic 30-acre site on the banks of the River Thames, near Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. The School became co-educational from Pre-School to Year 2 in September 2023. We remain all-boys from Years 3 to 8.
A full job description is attached. Any enquiries can be sent to mpshr@moulsford.com.
The School recognises the importance of creating the right work/life balance, of nurturing and developing staff, and creating a community.
Closing date: 29th January 2024
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including submission of an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate.
Registered Charity No 309643.
Attached documents
About Moulsford Preparatory School
- Moulsford Preparatory School
- Moulsford-on-thames, Wallingford
- Oxfordshire
- OX10 9HR
- United Kingdom
Moulsford is a thriving, independent day and boarding school of 380 pupils near Wallingford in South Oxfordshire, set in tranquil and picturesque grounds on the banks of the River Thames.
From September 2023, Moulsford Pre-Prep (Pre-School to Year 2) will become co-educational, giving girls of pre-prep age the opportunity to benefit from a Moulsford experience. The Prep School (Years 3 - 8) will continue to deliver an outstanding all-boys education.
A Moulsford education is directly relevant for life in the 21st century, instilling in the children a blend of academic rigour and life skills which gives them the platform and confidence to thrive at their senior schools, universities, the workplace, and personal lives.
Rated as ‘Excellent’ in all categories in its recent March 2022 ISI inspection, Moulsford offers an outstanding education with a focus on providing exceptional pastoral care. Kindness, compassion and community are at the centre of all that we do.
Great emphasis is also placed on the extra-curricular side of School life, with the range of activities for boys having been significantly enhanced from September 2017; Sport, Music, Art, Drama and river-based activities play a prominent role in the boys’ timetable. Sport at Moulsford is particularly strong and candidates must be “in-tune” with the School’s extra-curricular ethos.
There are currently 380 boys at the School. Moulsford is predominantly a day school, but has a boarding house for up to 35 boys; mainly in Years 6, 7 and 8. The School week runs from Monday to Friday, and there are also a number of sports fixtures which take place on Saturdays. There is neither Saturday School nor boarding on Friday night or at the weekend.
From Moulsford, the boys go on to a wide variety of senior schools via Common Entrance or Scholarship at 13+. These include: Abingdon, Radley, Marlborough, Wellington, Magdalen College School (Oxford), Eton, St Edward’s (Oxford), Pangbourne, Harrow, Shiplake, and The Oratory.
The Headmaster is Ben Beardmore-Gray who took up post in September 2014. Ben was previously Headmaster of Mowden Hall (Northumberland), Deputy Head of Farleigh (Hampshire), and started his teaching career at Ludgrove (Berkshire).
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