Head of Physics
Rugby School Japan
Chiba
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Internationally competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 November 2024
Job overview
We are seeking an outstanding teacher and leader of Physics who will be an ambitious and dynamic colleague who shares our vision of teaching as a vocation, and who will seize an exciting opportunity to work at Rugby School Japan (RSJ).
All teachers are expected to teach a range of age and ability groups from Year 7 through to the Sixth Form. Physics is a compulsory subject for all pupils up to Year 11, where each of the three sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) is taught separately by subject specialists. Pupils are either entered for examinations in Cambridge IGCSE Physics or in Coordinated Science IGCSE. Pupils in the Sixth Form follow the Cambridge A-level course. In this appointment, we are looking for an experienced teacher who can teach Physics A-level to the very top end of pupils.
Building upon the achievements of the founding Head of Department, the successful candidate will lead and develop the Physics Department as a flagship department as the School enters its third year. Collaboration with the Heads of Biology and Chemistry will be crucial. For the right candidate, there may be an opportunity to have a discussion around opportunities for leadership of the whole Science Faculty.
Staff work closely together with other departments with a view to create exciting and innovative inter, multi and transdisciplinary learning experiences.
The post holder will also be expected to make a full contribution to the pastoral and co-curricular life of the School.
RSJ is the second international sister school of Rugby School, one of the UK’s most prestigious and well-known schools. It shares Rugby’s aims and ethos, and aspires to be one of Asia’s top schools. RSJ is an international co-educational day and boarding school for 11-18-year olds, located on a spectacular campus in Kashiwa-no-ha, 30 minutes by train from central Tokyo. The School opened in September 2023, offering its students Rugby’s academic and co-curricular programmes, leading to IGCSE and A-level studies, and access to the world’s leading universities. A Rugby education focuses upon the importance of developing the whole person.
Rugby is renowned for its highly successful and innovative approach to education. As a coaching school we are looking for staff who are committed to a professional obligation to improve as teachers and who value personal growth.
The School is a boarding and day school in full operation seven days per week including evenings during term time. Pastoral, co-curricular, cultural and sports activities take place outside normal day-school hours and all staff are expected to contribute.
Closing date
Monday 4th November, though earlier applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to appoint prior to the published application deadline.
Interviews
Longlisted candidates will be interviewed on a rolling basis. Interviews will be online via video link.
Qualifications, Identification, Health and Background Checks
RSJ is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. You will be required to bring documentation to the interview providing proof of your identity, including an attested (by a notary) birth certificate, and qualifications. If successful at interview, the position will be offered subject to satisfactory references and police checks. For all candidates, we will request the most recent DBS check and may require further background checks. We also require that anyone who is currently living and working in a country other than the UK must be able to provide a police check from the national checking agency. All references will be verified and we require a minimum of two references, one of whom must be your present, or most recent, employer.
You may also be required to undergo a health check. RSJ is an equal opportunities employer.
In order to process your application, the data entered on the application form will be shared with senior staff in Japan. By applying, you consent to this data being shared solely for the purpose of properly processing your application.
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About Rugby School Japan
Rugby School Japan opened in Kashiwanoha (“Oak Leaf”) Smart City, Chiba Prefecture (Greater Tokyo), in September 2023, championing a new era of British international education in Japan. It is Rugby’s second international sister school. The School is a co-educational day and boarding school based on a campus within walking distance of a baseball stadium, football pitch, lake and running track in Kashiwanoha Park.
Rugby School Japan is situated in an urban campus in Tokyo, occupied by two of the best universities in Japan: Chiba University and Tokyo University.
Tokyo is one of the largest metropolises in Asia, and Rugby School Japan is the first of the British Public Schools to be established in the city.
Rugby School Japan shares Rugby’s ethos of ‘the whole person, the whole point’. The School believes in taking education beyond the classroom and nurturing the whole person – in mind, body and spirit – to give students a holistic sense of self and to enable them to achieve in all areas of life. Rugby School Japan aims to become a benchmark for British education worldwide.
Rugby School
Rugby School is a co-educational boarding and day school situated in the English county of Warwickshire. Founded in 1567, it is one of the original ten English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today, the School has 850 students aged 13 to 18 housed in 15 houses, 13 of which are for boarders and 300 students aged 3 to 13 at its Prep school, Bilton Grange. In 2019, Rugby achieved record results at GCSE and A-level, and has been described by Tatler as ‘a school at the top of its game’. Rugby has produced Prime Ministers of European nations, an Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rugbeians have contributed to stage and screen, to politics, the arts, philosophy, medicine and public life. They have upheld justice as judges and law makers; helped run governments, schools, universities; founded businesses; and won Olympic gold medals. In 1823, it is said that, during a game of football at the School, Rugby student William Webb Ellis caught the ball and ‘with a fine disregard for the rules… took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game’.
Rugby’s greatest Head Master, Dr Thomas Arnold (1828-42), transformed British education and formed the model that many other schools have since adopted. He recognised a modern concern – that education should address the formation of character, going beyond an understanding of learning as simply the acquisition of knowledge. Towards the end of the 20th century, the boys’ school once favoured by England’s monarchs became thoroughly co-educational. In 1975, three girls were admitted into the sixth form, and in 1992 the first 13-year-old girls arrived. The School is now almost equally populated by boys and girls. Rugby is national and international in outlook and recruitment, with boys and girls from all over the UK and 10% from overseas. As widening access to Rugby remains central to the School’s aims, the Arnold Foundation for Rugby School was set up in 2003 to fund places for students who stand to gain the most from a boarding school education. The opening of Rugby School Japan is the next step in this rich history, as Rugby proudly takes its educational philosophy international to make a difference across the world.
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