Gap Student

Gap Student

Welcome to King's House School
Thank you for your interest in King's House School.

I am very proud of our staff here at KHS, and we are a friendly and caring school with a strong sense of community, where the boys (and girls in our wonderful Nursery) thrive and flourish.

The pastoral aspect of school life is at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on providing an inclusive environment that is both nurturing and challenging.

I am proud of the supportive and collaborative culture at King's House, which helps staff and pupils to be the best they can be.

It is a joy to watch our pupils grow into confident young people, ambassadors for King's House when they leave us at 13+ to go onto a wide range of day and boarding Senior Schools.

We value a broad and balanced academic education, enabling our pupils to develop their academic, social, sporting, emotional and artistic attributes.

We are committed to recruiting excellent staff across our teaching and non-teaching departments and King's House School Enterprises, with the opportunity to develop careers.

You will be joining the school at an exciting time, when we are constantly investing in our facilities to ensure an inspiring education for students in many years to come.

I hope this website provides you with a flavour of what life is like at King's House School, with a staff who develop enthusiastic young people, who can be relied upon to make a positive contribution in all areas of school life.

Mark Turner

Head

"Preparing the boys for life beyond King's House is integral:

problem solving, working with everyone, collaborating, thinking

critically, knowing what to do when you don't know what to do."

STAFF MEMBER
First class sports facilities at our 35-acres

Sports Ground in Chiswick, including:

The School

King's House School was founded in Richmond in 1946 and has been a boys' prep school from that time on.

The school operates on three sites in or around King's Road, which is on the very pleasant setting of Richmond Hill.

The Senior Department (for boys from Year 4 to Year 8) is at 68 King's Road, the Junior Department on its own site just down the hill, and the Nursery around the corner on Princes Road.

The school also has a 35-acre sports ground just over Chiswick Bridge, where there are numerous pitches, athletics facilities, cricket nets, tennis courts, a 3G pitch and all-weather pitch.

Most boys join the school in the Nursery (which is co-ed) or Reception but there are also small intakes at Years 3, 4 and 7.

Boys generally stay until 13 when they move on to a wide range of single-sex, co-ed, day and boarding schools, with a number each year gaining scholarships.

The Nursery operates from its own site in a carefully restored building on Princes Road. The youngest children, in Caterpillar Class (rising 3s), are based on the top floor and

Butterflies (the rising 4s) on the ground floor.

There is a very positive, caring atmosphere to the Nursery and the ground floor has an additional room used for music and small group activities.

The Nursery has its own dedicated staff supplemented with specialists from the school PE, Music and IT departments.

The School

Throughout their time at King's House, the boys are encouraged to take part in art, drama, music and sporting activities.

There are productions every year for all year groups, concerts and many more performance opportunities for music, as well as numerous games fixtures and sporting activities.

There are also numerous outings for all year groups to enrich the curriculum, and year groups from Year 3 go on residential trips in the summer term.

King's House offers its pupils a broad and balanced curriculum and prepares them well for their transition on to their next school.

We cherish each pupil as an individual and provide them with the skills and mental resilience to succeed in whatever path they choose to take.

Small class size means that we can get to know each child and identify their unique strengths, interests and passions.

First class sports facilities at our 35-acres Sports Ground in Chiswick

Gap Student
We are looking for enthusiastic and creative Gap Students to join our team. Many of our Gap Assistants will work for one or two terms, although those available to work a full academic year (i.e. three terms) may be prioritised. You will work closely with our PE and Games department alongside a variety of other duties across the school.

Closing Date:
Rolling Recruitment

• Salary: £14,340 per annum
• Hours: 07:30 16:30 Monday to Friday + occasional Saturday fixtures
• Reporting to: Head of Pastoral Care
• Free school lunches during term time
• Contract type: Full-Time, fixedterm for either one, two or three terms

Responsibilities

A typical day will involve:

• Supervising Breakfast Club/Earlybirds
• Collect boys from bus stop and walk them to JD/SD
• Playground Duty
• Work

---