Teacher of PE
Shevington High School, Wigan, Lancashire, WN6 8AB21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Required from Easter or September 2026
Closing date
28 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 January 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916 - £51,048
What skills and experience we're looking for
Shevington High School is a successful and popular 11-16 community school, built upon our core values of respect, inclusion, aspiration, and kindness. We are seeking to appoint a full‑time Teacher of Physical Education. This post offers a fantastic opportunity for an ECT or an experienced teacher. (If you are interested in a part‑time role, please indicate this on your application.)
The successful candidate will work within our dynamic and dedicated PE Department, a team committed to promoting physical literacy, sporting excellence and healthy, active lifestyles for all pupils. The department is highly supportive and collaborative, ensuring students receive high‑quality teaching across a broad, engaging and inclusive PE curriculum.
At Shevington High School, our aim in Physical Education is to create young people who develop a love for sport and physical activity which they can take into their future lives. We strive to provide an environment where students feel safe, have fun and are challenged to learn through the medium of PE and Sport.
Learning is centred around four key elements:
- Skill and Performance
- Key Knowledge Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Analysis of Performance
Through a balanced and varied curriculum — including invasion games, net and wall games, physical fitness, dance, outdoor activities and athletics — students develop confidence, resilience and a lifelong appreciation of healthy, active living. Many of our pupils continue to study in the field of Sport and PE post-16.
The successful candidate will:
- Demonstrate excellent subject knowledge and passion for Physical Education.
- Inspire and motivate students to enjoy sport, physical activity and personal challenge.
- Deliver high‑quality lessons using adaptive teaching to meet the needs of all learners.
- Contribute to our extra‑curricular sports programme, fixtures and school competitions.
- Uphold our school values of respect, inclusion, aspiration and kindness.
Facilities include sports fields, sports hall, gymnasium, hard court areas and we will soon have our own 3G pitch.
This an exciting development for our team, and we look forward to hearing from applicants who feel they can complement and enhance the learning experiences that we currently offer, while embodying our school values in their approach to teaching and supporting students. The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting our pupils to lead active, healthy lives and develop lifelong participation in physical activity.
What the school offers its staff
Salary & Benefits
- M1 – UPS3 FTE £32,916 - £51,048 per annum
- CPD including access to NPQs, specialist knowledge development courses and access to StepLab
- Enhanced Induction for all new staff
- Comprehensive ECT Scheme including ongoing coaching and mentoring for all teachers
- Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
- Rewards and Recognition Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing team and School Workload Charter
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
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Shevington High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 878 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Shevington High School website
- Email address
- lthompson@shevingtonhigh.org.uk
About the School
Shevington High School is a very popular and successful 11-16 secondary school with a track record for achieving the best possible outcomes for the pupils it serves.
The school located in the village of Shevington, 3 miles from Wigan town centre and five minutes from the M6 motorway. The school is smaller than the average size secondary school but grown significantly over the last 5 Years. We currently have 178 students in every year group.
As a School, we have developed a learning culture of high aspirations and expectations for all students.
At Shevington, we are committed to maintaining the very highest standards. Our positive approach seeks to identify and nurture the ability and talent in every learner and to ensure through an array of experiences and opportunities that everyone has the chance to shine.
Shevington High School is a happy school where individuality and difference are recognised and embraced and curiosity, creativity and leadership are fostered. In addition, every learner has the right to strive for success and to have their successes celebrated. We are a disciplined and caring environment where respect for each other, small courtesies and good manners are held in very high regard.
Learning is at the heart of all that we do and in order to prepare young people to become the citizens of the future the learning must be stimulating, challenging and be about real life and the real world.
We are immensely proud to be a Laboratory School as part of the International Centre of Educational Enhancement (ICEE) and Bolton University. Through our relentless research and development work with the ICCE we have developed the Shevington Teaching Framework and developed a blended learning approach where all students work from digital devices in lessons through Google Classroom. This has transformed our learning and pedagogical approach in lessons.
One of our other unique strengths, is our commitment to encouraging and enabling students to take ownership of their learning. To this end all students attend a weekly coaching session with their form tutor setting weekly and long term learning goals linked to our curriculum and Student Agency in Learning (SAIL) approach.
We have worked hard to create a working environment, where hard work and dedication are rewarded. We are very proud of our amazing students, our dedicated staff and extremely supportive governors and parents.
The school has a strong school vision supported by all stakeholders.
Through our values and personalised approach to learning we expect students to achieve the highest academic excellence, recognise opportunities, have a positive view of challenges and dare to think in new ways – to be creative – and realise that “life is what you make it!”
At Shevington High School, you will find a school which is totally committed to ongoing and high-quality professional development for all staff who form part of our team. We have a comprehensive programme of professional development and have a Staff Coaching Programme where staff work collaboratively in triads throughout the year reflecting on practice and developing teacher protocols. All teachers also embark on personal research and inquiry projects and share their findings with others as part of our professional learning community. We believe that the focus on developing teacher protocols has been central to our ongoing success.
If you are suitably qualified and would like to share in our vision and journey as we continue to develop an innovative and excellent educational provision, we would very much welcome hearing from you
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