Head of PE

What skills and experience we're looking for

Head of PE

TLR2B

(Outer London £5,872.00 per annum)

Required September 2026 or January 2027

• Would you like the opportunity to develop your leadership skills and inspire colleagues with your passion to teach PE?
• Are you a dynamic teacher who enjoys sharing your enthusiasm with students in a school that fosters a lifelong love of learning?

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Head of PE.

As a member of our Performing Arts faculty, you will be responsible for developing and delivering an innovative PE curriculum. Your outstanding classroom practice will help to inspire our students with your own love of learning. You must be able to demonstrate creativity as well as an excellent subject knowledge in teaching a wide range of sports including dance, gymnastics, athletics and a variety of team sports. You should be qualified to teach trampolining.

Committed to ‘bringing out the gift’ in every student, you will be committed to running extra -curricular sports and will lead teams at fixtures as part of our extra-curricular provision. You must have a commitment to developing and maintaining high standards of teaching and learning and enjoy the challenge of ensuring that all pupils achieve their full potential.

Walthamstow School for Girls is a wonderful place to work, learn, teach and lead. We are passionate about education being a vehicle for promoting equality for all and our mission is to empower young women to become leaders of the future. We are a truly comprehensive school, proud of our diversity and committed to social justice.

An application form and further details can be downloaded from the school website www.wsfg.waltham.sch.uk here. Completed application forms should be returned, as a word document, by email to recruitment@wsfg.waltham.sch.uk Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date

Monday 15th June 2026 (9.00am)

Interview date

Thursday 25th June 2026

Walthamstow School for Girls is committed to Equal Opportunities and to Safer Recruitment practices and procedures.

What the school offers its staff

• One of the lowest teaching time contact ratios in London, demonstrating that we have chosen to invest in our staff
• An understanding that work-life balance is important, including a commitment to staff wellbeing in our School Improvement Plan
• In addition to making allowances for staff to have cover for family events, we have been piloting a whole school approach to flexible working which will be rolled out across the school in 2025– 26
• Teachers have an allocated WFA - Work from Anywhere period included on their timetable

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Home and Family weeks

termly non-meeting weeks throughout the year to support with reduced workload and staff wellbeing

• No report writing
• Beautiful school grounds, including staff terrace(in summer!)
• The possibility of flexible working contracts (42% of our staff are part-time)
• Regular wellbeing surveys and wellbeing slots in staff meetings; member of SLT with responsibility for staff wellbeing
• 97% of staff say the school is a happy and enjoyable place to work; 95% feel their professional contribution is valued; 73% feel they have a good work-life balance.This compares very favourably with the TES national Wellbeing report where only 20% of staff felt their workload was manageable.

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Employee Assistance

free 24-hour confidential counselling, help and information service

• Staff organised activities including a running club, yoga and Boxfit exercise sessions
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Staff working in schools in Waltham Forest,regularly using computers,are eligible to apply for reimbursement towards some of the costs associated with eye tests and glasses
• Free on-site parking
• Lunch or breakfast provided on INSET days
• Free tea and coffee in the staff room
• Staff benefit from preferential admission criteria for their daughters.

Commitment to safeguarding

Walthamstow School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.