Teacher of Physical Education (Male)

Would you like to join a popular, oversubscribed school with excellent state of the art facilities? Our popular and heavily oversubscribed school is looking to appoint a talented and inspirational male Teacher of PE. The successful candidate will be a consistently good to outstanding practitioner and must be able to teach PE up to KS4 and KS5. They will be committed to excellent curriculum PE as well as the value and contribution of Sport and Exercise to the enrichment and wellbeing of our students. We have a thriving extra-curricular programme which we would expect the successful candidate to contribute to. The successful candidate will be a role model and leader and will look to inspire similar qualities within our students. Willingness to drive the school minibus is desirable. July start is available for ECTs. Due to the changing room facility requirements we are only able to accept applications from male candidates. The successful candidate will join a well-established team supported by excellent resources including a full size 3G football pitch, sixty station fitness suite, cricket nets, and floodlit tennis/netball courts. For further information about the PE department and curriculum, please click here. Furze Platt is a highly successful and inclusive mixed comprehensive school serving the children of Maidenhead. At Furze Platt, 1500 students of all abilities develop the skills and qualities to enable them to excel in the future. We are an ambitious, high-achieving and fully inclusive school in which our students are challenged and supported to achieve excellence. We are well placed for access, with good transport links to and from London and surrounding counties. Our school is very well resourced and equipped with many new facilities benefiting students and staff.   These include a state-of-the-art theatre, gym, fitness suite and new three-storey teaching block incorporating science laboratories and classrooms. We have introduced ‘Laptops for learning’ this year, so all pupils have access to their own laptop. We want our students to enjoy the time they spend with us by providing an education which is broad, stimulating and rewarding. We encourage all our staff to offer enrichment opportunities with over 50 clubs and societies being offered each term. We are proud of this range of extra-curricular opportunities including Duke of Edinburgh, ski and theatre trips, visits overseas to enhance language skills and historical knowledge and many others.  We offer a friendly and harmonious campus atmosphere, with a Senior Leadership Team who genuinely want to see you succeed and develop. Career opportunities allowing you to grow professionally within Furze Platt. Furze Platt is the lead school for Teach Maidenhead, a teacher training partnership which offers School Direct teacher training giving staff the opportunity to develop their mentoring skills. ECTs are allocated a mentor, a reduced timetable and the opportunity to attend training s