Director of Sport
Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 2DUThis job expired on 9 February 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Required for April 2023 / September 2023
Closing date
9 February 2023 at 9am
Date listed
27 January 2023
Job details
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs - Full Time, Permanent Post
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS plus TLR 1b
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Governors of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invite applications for the post of Director of Sport. We seek a highly motivated and energetic candidate to lead our very successful, well-resourced PE Department. As Director of Sport you would be responsible for all sporting matters within the school, including oversight of specialist PE teaching up to A level, developing our extensive Saturday and mid-week fixture programme, setting and developing the core PE offer and managing the sports facilities on our 35-acre site. The successful candidate should be an outstanding and experienced teacher of at least two of the school's main sports (football, netball, basketball, rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics).
In the 2022 A level examinations, 44% of all grades were A* with 91% of grades being awarded A*-B. In GCSE examinations, students achieved a Progress 8 score of +0.73 and an average Attainment 8 score of 75.7 with 40% of all grades being a grade 9 and 95% of students achieving 5 or more grades 9-4 including English and Maths. 36% of GCSE PE results were Grade 9 in 2022 and 73% were graded 9-7. 77% of A Level PE results were graded A*-B.
What the school offers its staff
The school provides an excellent range of staff development opportunities. This is currently led by Lauren Common, Assistant Headteacher and our team of ASTs/SLEs with responsibility for teaching and learning. All staff members are encouraged to continue their personal development and undertake further qualifications if they wish.
We have installed a £60k Fitness Suite which is open to all staff for certain hours outside of the school day.
We have a commitment to ensuring staff undertake minimal cover and wherever possible none at all. The Governing Body is committed to admitting the children of staff in line with our admissions procedures.
We fully appreciate the time and consideration which go into applying for a new job. If there is anything we can do to help you through this process, please do not hesitate to ask.
We very much look forward to receiving your application.
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About Dame Alice Owen's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1447 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Dame Alice Owen's School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
Dame Alice Owen’s School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with over 1,440 registered pupils and a vibrant and highly successful sixth form. Our school was founded 400 years ago by Dame Alice Owen, a remarkable philanthropist with an unusually modern vision for education. She established the first school in Islington and as demand outstripped space, it moved to its current setting in the Hertfordshire countryside. Because of its roots and its close and important relationship with the Worshipful Company of Brewers, there are 20 places each year for 11 year old students from Islington. It also offers 65 places to the highest scoring applicants who sit the entrance exam each year and a further 10 places for the most talented or able musicians who apply for a place in Year 7. The remainder of the places in an annual cohort of 200 go to siblings, local pupils on the basis of proximity to the school and to those with priority need. It is this combination of students and its truly outstanding record of achievement and added value that makes our school such a special place. It is oversubscribed by 5 applicants per place every year. Our dedicated staff, parents’ association, governing body and school (staff and student) leaders constantly appraise and re-appraise the various aspects of school life, learning and achievement so we are never complacent. Our school faces the usual challenges of all educational establishments in the public sector, and ensuring that their impact is felt least by the students is a key objective. We were delighted to be recognised as The Sunday Times Regional School of the Decade in November 2020; securing a place at Owen’s has been described as “winning the lottery” in the Good School Guide and “the golden ticket” in Tatler. Our school benefits from some of the most able students in the country. Many of our school leavers from Year 13 have offers from top universities to choose from, including on average 20 places at Oxbridge each year. Our Foundress left a number of fields in the then village of Islington to the care of the Worshipful Company of Brewers which now generate over one million pounds of additional income for the school annually, to support the school and especially the Sports Department. This creates a very special ethos and fosters the very positive staff working environment. The students and staff benefit from a number of traditions including Beer Money, staff awards and Visitation.
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