Teacher of Physical Education (Maternity Cover)
| Posting date: | 16 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2025 |
| Location: | Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3RB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | b4aa32d4-df0a-442d-8224-9d4c76bfd479 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We seek to appoint an outstanding practitioner of Physical Education at The Folkestone School for Girls.
We are seeking someone with the aptitude to engage, stretch and challenge students of all ages and abilities in this outstanding 11-18 grammar school. You will need great people skills, reserves of resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG students
What the school offers its staff
We offer a highly successful and well-resourced Physical Education department. We are incredibly lucky to have state-of-the-art fitness suite, a climbing wall, archery on site and even our own mountain bike trail (with mountain bikes to use on it!) You’ll be able to get involved with our unique personal development and character education programme, The FSGBacc, which encompasses all sorts of activities – from our very own escape room or our own radio station through to our extensive Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme or our Combined Cadet Force Contingent! Sport, Music, Debate, Drama, Dance, Adventure – something for everyone!
Further details about the role
We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what girls get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.
At the Folkestone School for Girls, girls do not complete an excessive amount of qualifications. This allows them not only time to focus efforts on achieving the very best grades within these, but also time to participate in co-curricular activities and interests, both at school and at home. There is time to spend with friends and family and time, too, to just be a child.
A justifiable balance between intellect and character.
You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website.
Applications from ECTs are welcomed.
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.
We seek to appoint an outstanding practitioner of Physical Education at The Folkestone School for Girls.
We are seeking someone with the aptitude to engage, stretch and challenge students of all ages and abilities in this outstanding 11-18 grammar school. You will need great people skills, reserves of resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG students
What the school offers its staff
We offer a highly successful and well-resourced Physical Education department. We are incredibly lucky to have state-of-the-art fitness suite, a climbing wall, archery on site and even our own mountain bike trail (with mountain bikes to use on it!) You’ll be able to get involved with our unique personal development and character education programme, The FSGBacc, which encompasses all sorts of activities – from our very own escape room or our own radio station through to our extensive Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme or our Combined Cadet Force Contingent! Sport, Music, Debate, Drama, Dance, Adventure – something for everyone!
Further details about the role
We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what girls get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.
At the Folkestone School for Girls, girls do not complete an excessive amount of qualifications. This allows them not only time to focus efforts on achieving the very best grades within these, but also time to participate in co-curricular activities and interests, both at school and at home. There is time to spend with friends and family and time, too, to just be a child.
A justifiable balance between intellect and character.
You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website.
Applications from ECTs are welcomed.
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.