Head of PE

Salary grade: MPS/UPS; TLR 2.2 Closing date for applications: 12pm Monday 8th June 2026 Start date: September 2026 Contract type: Permanent Who are we? ‘The school focuses on the holistic child’ (OFSTED, September 2022) ‘Pupils respond extremely well to the challenge of becoming independent learners’ (OFSTED, September 2022) Highbury Fields School is a community in which everyone enjoys academic and social success. The school actively celebrates and promotes equality, diversity and inclusion and aims to make everyone in our community feel welcome and wanted in school. An 11 to 18 girls’ school, we are proud to serve a culturally rich, but often underprivileged, community and are fiercely determined that every child in our care will develop into a confident young adult, who is academically and socially accomplished. The school’s consecutive ‘outstanding’ OFSTED reports of 2016 and 2022 and our consistently high progress 8 scores and attainment (average grade 5.7) have established our students’ reputation for academic excellence and we are highly regarded in the local community for our calm, focused learning environment. However, we are neither complacent not satisfied. The school strives for excellence in all aspects of its work and over the last year we have completed revised our studied, pastoral and wider curricular to ensure we are meeting the needs of all our students in the current post-Covid context. Our intention is to take each student on an educational journey of memorable and stimulating learning experiences, that enables them to be academically and socially successful, both in school and beyond. What is the role? ‘Leaders and staff have extremely high expectations for all aspects of school life’ (OFSTED, September 2022) It is in this context that the school is seeking a highly skilled Head of PE teacher to build on the success of our department and further develop our sports provision. This is an exciting opportunity for a well-qualified and highly ef