Teacher of PE
The Chalk Hills Academy, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4 0NE5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
23 January 2025 at 8am
Date listed
16 December 2024
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Physical Education (PE)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,756.00 - £49,544.00 Annually (Actual) AST 1-12 £31,756-£49,544 dependent on experience
Teacher of PE job summary
Teacher of PE
We have a great opportunity for an energetic and positive Teacher of PE to join our wonderful Academy. The Chalk Hills Academy are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered. You will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body and enterprising students. Our academy has state of the art facilities, fit for all your teaching needs. Our facilities include a gym which is available for staff to use after school hours and a Sixth Form block.
Our students respond to PE lessons very positively and enjoy using the full range of resources. All students up to 16 receive two hours of Physical Education a week, in single hour blocks. Alongside these core hours, at key stage four we offer GCSE PE and BTEC PE which we have previously experienced great success in. At key stage five we offer Level 3 Cambridge Technical in sport and physical activity that can either be studied at extended certificate, diploma or extended diploma level. We will be commencing our second year as an established football academy in partnership with Luton Town FC. Overall, physical education is well established and respected within the academy.
We have an excellent fitness suite available for staff and student use, a full-size sports hall, dance studio, a full sized 3g Astroturf, outdoor basketball court area and field with a rugby and football pitch in the winter and 200m track and rounders pitches in the summer. Our classrooms are all fitted with interactive whiteboards and the academy has numerous ICT suites and laptop trolleys that can be booked for use in lessons.
It’s incredibly important to us here at The Chalk Hills Academy that all our teachers feel valued, listened to, mentored, challenged and given adequate opportunities to develop. As a Teaching Trust, we offer exceptional teacher training and high-quality professional development programmes catered to your needs. Consequently, we have many success stories of teachers that have joined us and been given excellent CPD and training that has allowed them to climb the career ladder. We welcome applications from ECT’s who are embarking on starting their teaching career and from more experienced colleagues.
If you want to grow and develop in a fast paced, dynamic and successful Academy at any point in your career, come and join us at The Chalk Hills Academy!
Job Specifics
Start date: September 2025
Salary: AST 1-12 £31,756-£49,544 dependent on experience
Contract: Full time, permanent
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
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About The Chalk Hills Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1619 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Chalk Hills Academy website (opens in new tab)
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