Head of Design & Technology with Sport

Head of Design & Technology and Sport Cottesmore School, Pease Pottage, West Sussex, RH11 9AU Accommodation available Full-time For September 2026 or January 2027 Cottesmore School is seeking to appoint an outstanding, imaginative and energetic Head of Design and Technology to lead this important and exciting area of school life. This is a rare opportunity for a talented teacher and maker to shape the next chapter of Design and Technology at one of the country’s leading prep schools. Cottesmore has a long-standing commitment to creativity, practical learning and innovation. The successful candidate will have the chance to build on this tradition and help define what excellent D.T. should look like for 2026/ 27 and beyond. We are looking for someone who understands that Design and Technology is much more than one narrow discipline. It may include woodwork, product design, metalwork, plastics, 3D printing, engineering, sustainability, enterprise, problem-solving and invention. More importantly, it is one of the few areas of school life where the hand, the intellect and the imagination work together with immediacy, honesty and purpose. At its best, D.T. helps children to think clearly, make carefully and create courageously. It allows Cottesmore pupils to bring an idea from inside their mind into the physical world. That is a powerful educational experience and one which matters deeply in an age of artificial intelligence, automation and increasingly frictionless technology. The future will need brilliant thinkers. It will also need brilliant makers. We want our pupils to imagine, design, prototype, test, adapt and build. We want them to encounter wood and metal, code and clay, enterprise and ethics, sustainability and engineering, art and architecture, beauty and usefulness. The right candidate will be excited by that breadth and will be able to give children more doors through which to discover themselves. The department is based in the Sopwith Centre,