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  • Start date details

    ASAP

  • Closing date

    28 September 2026 at 1am

  • Date listed

    17 September 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher or lecturer

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Physical education

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full time equivalent salary

£32,916 -£51,048 pa

Teacher of Girls’ Physical Education job summary

Part of the Sapientia Education Trust 

 

  • Salary: £32,916 -£51,048 pa 
  • Fixed Term until July 2027 
  • Full Time 
  • Required ASAP 

 

Old Buckenham High School is a small yet vibrant school situated in the heart of the beautiful Norfolk countryside. With an idyllic rural location, we are less than 30 minutes’ drive from Norwich, offering the perfect balance of peaceful surroundings and easy access to the city. 

Currently, we have around 500 students aged between 11 and 16 years. Our vision is to provide an inspiring, challenging, and inclusive learning environment, driven by high-quality, evidence-based teaching. We hold traditional values and are incredibly proud of our excellent pastoral care, guidance, and support, ensuring all students feel valued and nurtured. 

At Old Buckenham High School, we are passionate about creating a strong, positive community ethos, where mutual respect and high standards are at the core of everything we do. We aim to develop brilliant young people who are hardworking, respectful, and committed to contributing to the community around them. As a school on an exciting journey of improvement, we are building on our previous successes. Our most recent inspection praised us with a ‘Good’ rating across all aspects, and we are determined to continue building on this strong foundation. 

THE ROLE 

We are looking for a hard-working and enthusiastic person with high standards and the ability to communicate and interact effectively with others as part of our school as a Teacher of Girls' Physical Education. You will be an excellent Physical Education teacher and have an unwavering passion for your subject. You will have a clear focus and understanding of what makes outstanding teaching and learning and provide excellent outcomes for students. You will be able to teach PE across both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, delivering engaging lessons that foster a love of learning and promote participation, confidence and success in sport. 

As the school's only female PE teacher, you will play a key role in inspiring and encouraging girls to develop a lifelong enjoyment of physical activity. We are looking for someone who is passionate about girls' sport, committed to raising participation levels, and able to act as a positive role model for our students. The successful candidate will be expected to make a significant contribution to our extra-curricular programme, leading clubs, teams and sporting opportunities that encourage students to achieve their full potential beyond the classroom. 

The successful applicant will join the team responsible for delivering our GCSE Physical Education curriculum and should be committed to ensuring that students achieve excellent outcomes in this popular subject. A willingness to contribute to the continued development of PE across the school and support wider enrichment opportunities will be essential. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for a teacher who values working collaboratively as part of a team and is driven by evidence-based approaches to teaching. If you are looking for a role in a school that is dedicated to improvement and values community, ambition and respect, we would love to hear from you. 

How to apply: 

A job description is available from ‘Attachments’. 

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our Trust’s website to apply via the online application form. 

We reserve the right to interview early if a suitable candidate is found  

Closing date:   28 September 2026 

Interview date:  w/c  5 October 2026 

 

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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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

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About Old Buckenham High School

Organisation type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary school
Size
501 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Website
Old Buckenham High School website
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Old Buckenham High School is a small/medium-sized high school set in the heart of the beautiful Norfolk countryside. We currently have around 495 students aged between 11 and 16 years, boys and girls. In each of our years we have either three or four tutor groups with an average of 24 students in each.

Students are assigned a ‘house’ when they start; Turing, Rashford, Malala, Attenborough. Students in each house compete in various interhouse competitions, including music and sports, and students are mentored by older students in their own house or paired with a literacy assistant to support their reading or a numeracy assistant for maths.

Our leadership group consists of a headteacher, a deputy headteacher and two assistant headteachers. We also have key stage leaders for the two key stages who oversee all students, from years 7 to 11.

We have curriculum leaders and subject teachers in the following subject areas; English, Maths, Science, Design & Technology, Expressive Arts, Geography, History, Modern Foreign Languages, Physical Education and Personal Development.

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