Teacher of PE
Bourne Grammar School, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9JE7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
22 April, 02 June or 01 September
Closing date
30 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 January 2025
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Physical Education (PE)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Teacher of PE job summary
The Physical Education Faculty
We are seeking to appoint a new colleague into the PE Faculty in 2025. Following the appointment, the Faculty will comprise of eight full-time specialists. Many hold additional responsibilities including Deputy Headteacher, two Heads of Year and two Deputy Heads of Year. You will join us at an exciting time with the recent addition of an astroturf, refurbished Fitness Suite and multi-purpose athletics facility; in all, an investment of more than £350,000 to develop facilities within the Faculty.
The Physical Education Faculty has a long and consistent track record of achieving excellent student outcomes at GCSE and A-Level. GCSE PE is a growing subject with 3 groups in Year 10 & 2 groups in Year 11. At A-Level, numbers have increased with 14 students in Year 12 this September; the subject is always a popular choice.
At GCSE level the 2024 results were 8.6% Grade 9, 46.6% Grade 7-9, 96.6% Grade 9-4. At A-level the 2024 results were 14.6% A*-A, 100% A*-C. These standards of attainment bear scrutiny against all other selective schools in the region. The AQA syllabus is followed for both courses.
The Faculty is a highly cohesive and supportive team of able and committed professionals who enjoy their work and take a collaborative and collegiate approach. For a teacher who is enthusiastic about their subject and wishes to develop their pedagogy with keen, well-disciplined students, this is a fantastic opportunity.
Games contribute a significant part of the curriculum; the boys specialise in Football, Basketball and Rugby and the girls specialise in Hockey, Netball and Football. The summer term focuses on Cricket, Tennis and Athletics for all students. The Faculty seeks to provide opportunities for both the more able and the less able and recognises the progress made by all, at its annual Sports Presentation Evening. The Faculty is a very active member of the South Lincolnshire School Sports Association and members of the Faculty hold positions of responsibilities within it. The School competes in a range of local tournaments and has an excellent reputation at local, county, regional and national level. For 20 years the School has attended National finals in Athletics or Cross-country. Our Netball, Football, Hockey and Rugby teams also all compete at regional and national level on a regular basis with more than 50 students representing either the County, Region or Country.
The Faculty has an extensive extra-curricular programme and is well respected within the region, arguably being the most successful State School for sport in the county and region. Since 2013 the School has appeared in the top 200 State Schools for Sport on several occasions, reaching 24th in 2018. The successful candidate would be expected to contribute fully to this aspect of school life.
The Faculty actively promotes extra-curricular sports tours and have included in recent years:
Ski Trip – Italy annually since 2008
Girls’ Football Tour – Disneyland, Paris 2016
Netball Tour – Barbados – 2017
Residential GCSE PE trip – Skipton, Yorkshire – annually
Wimbledon – annually
Leicester Riders Basketball
The role
The role will suit either an experienced teacher with the ability to teach up to A-level, or a newly-qualified teacher who may not have the experience of teaching up to A-Level but must be able to demonstrate the ability and potential to teach our Sixth Form students. Expertise in Hockey and Netball is required, and racket sports would be advantageous.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Bourne Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1726 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Bourne Grammar School website (opens in new tab)
We are an oversubscribed mixed selective school serving Bourne, Stamford and Peterborough. Our students are well-behaved and motivated and are taught in modern and well-resourced facilities. The school offers 240 places to students in Year 7 and, with a growing Sixth Form of over 500, has expanded to become one of the largest grammar schools in the country. The vast majority of Year 11 students transfer into our Sixth Form where students are offered a choice of 26 A-Level subjects.
The best atmosphere, the best support, the best results
This is our purpose statement - we have no long or complicated mission statement. The order of the purpose statement is deliberate; we believe that if we get the atmosphere and support right then, given our able students and committed staff, good results will follow. The atmosphere is special and cherished by us all and something that interview candidates often remark upon. We are a large and busy school and our students are well-behaved, motivated and want to be here and their parents/carers want them to be here. Most of the students, most of the time, want to learn and enjoy lessons which are well-taught and engaging.
The teaching staff body numbers around 100 teachers supported by 40 non-teaching colleagues. All teaching staff are subject specialists and are only required to teach their own subject. Staff absence is very low, as is staff turnover. Staff who do leave often do so for promoted posts. All teaching staff at Bourne Grammar School are issued with a laptop and other benefits including no breaktime, lunchtime or bus supervision duties and free on-site parking. Tea and coffee are freely available in our two large staffrooms.
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