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Assistant Head of PE
Wollaston School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN29 7PH15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2027
Closing date
2 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time position
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS / UPS + TLR2A
Additional allowances
TLR2A
What skills and experience we're looking for
ASSISTANT HEAD OF PE – Academic PE Lead,KS4 Outcomes
Required For January 2027 start –Permanent Position – MPS / UPS + TLR2A
Are you passionate about driving academic success and inspiring excellence in Physical Education? Wollaston School is seeking a dynamic and dedicated Assistant Head of PE to lead our academic provision at Key Stage 4.
As Academic PE Leader, you will play a pivotal role in raising standards, enhancing teaching quality, and ensuring outstanding outcomes for our students. You’ll lead on assessment, data analysis, and targeted interventions, working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve the highest standards. Wollaston School offers a very successful Extra Curricular sporting programme with excellent facilities and passionate PE staff. An ability to coach and lead sports and games is encouraged.
Key responsibilities include:
- Raising student achievement and attainment in Key Stage 4 PE qualifications.
- Coaching and supporting colleagues to deliver excellent teaching and learning.
- Leading on assessment moderation, tracking progress, and coordinating interventions.
- Supporting curriculum planning and exam preparation.
We are looking for:
- An outstanding teacher with QTS and experience of Key Stage 4 PE.
- Proven ability to raise achievement and drive improvement.
- Strong leadership, data analysis, and communication skills.
- A commitment to high expectations, inclusion, and safeguarding.
Why join Wollaston School?
You’ll be part of a supportive, ambitious team in a vibrant secondary school with a strong commitment to professional development and staff wellbeing.
Closing date for receipt of applications: Midday on Friday 2nd October 2026
Interviews are likely to be held during week commencing 5th October 2026
For enquiries, including booking a visit, please email: ridgek@wollaston-school.net
Wollaston School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, a medical check and the provision of two references one of which MUST be your most recent or last employer.
What the school offers its staff
Why join Wollaston School? You’ll be part of a supportive, ambitious team in a vibrant secondary school with a strong commitment to professional development and staff wellbeing.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wollaston School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1432 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Wollaston School website
- Email address
- ridgek@wollaston-school.net
Wollaston School is a large, rural community school located in a village setting about 15 minutes drive from Northampton. The student intake draws on nearby villages and the towns of Earls Barton, Wellingborough, and Irchester. We have over 1400 students on roll with approximately 240 students in the Sixth Form. The school is over-subscribed. Wollaston School was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in May 2023.
We are a school that takes great pride in our central purpose - to prepare every student for success. Success in academic qualifications, success in a wide range of extra-curricular and leadership activities and success in every individual’s personal and social development. We work towards this mission through a focus on exceptional levels of pastoral support and an academic and enrichment programme designed to ensure that every individual reaches their true potential.
At Wollaston, we believe in aiming high. We target excellence with the utmost commitment, but we also remember that a truly inspiring education is one that is filled with joy, laughter and happiness. We are also a school that is led by our values. We value honesty, kindness and tolerance. We embrace individuality as well as collective responsibility, we celebrate diversity, promote equality of opportunity, and we are a community which supports every individual to achieve all that they are capable of.
For most students, Wollaston School provides an education which lasts for seven years, from age 11 to age 18. Our ambition is to ensure that at the end of that journey, every student is ready to take their place in society as positive, purposeful, ethical and well qualified individuals.
Life at Wollaston School is characterised by an ethos of warmth, respect and ambition. We value effective working relationships with parents and we believe in delivering a high quality professional service in every aspect of our work. We offer a broad and exciting curriculum, expert teaching and high standards of academic achievement. We promote impeccable standards of behaviour and we expect the very best of every individual who walks through our doors. We are a team of staff and students who are committed to ensuring that our school is a truly exceptional place of learning.
Arranging a visit to Wollaston School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ridgek@wollaston-school.net.
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