Gap Student

**Job type**:
Full Time, Temporary

**Start date**:
1 September 2025

21 March 2025

**Job overview**:
If you are looking for a job in your gap year that provides variety, flexibility and a fun working environment, then a Gap Student role at Cranbrook School could be for you. Our Gap Students contribute to many areas of school life - sport, office administration, boarding, extracurricular activities, as well as offering support in the classroom.

You will gain valuable experience - whether you’re thinking of a career in schools or not - while being able to specialise in a particular area that you are keen on. You will have the company of a friendly staff community that will include other gap students and graduates. The term of your employment can be flexible, too, to accommodate any other plans you might have for the year. You will have full access to all our facilities as an employee.

, or call 01580 711801.

Cranbrook School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Cranbrook School is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

**About**Cranbrook School**:
**Cranbrook School**
- Waterloo Road, Cranbrook
- Kent
- TN17 3JD
- United Kingdom

+44 1580 711800

Cranbrook School is a mixed state grammar school with 900+ pupils aged 11-18 years, including around 260 boarders. It was founded in 1518. Day pupils come from within 5.28 miles of the school, following a test to judge their suitability for a grammar school education. Boarders are admitted from a wide area, having sat the same test. Although it is a selective school, Cranbrook admits a wider ability range than many other grammar schools. We provide a challenging and supportive curriculum so that students of all abilities are catered for. The value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of our provision.

For a state school, the facilities are impressive. Within the seventy acres of school grounds are found the six boarding houses, the Queen’s Hall Theatre (used for assemblies, school productions, visiting theatre companies and concerts), a large library and lecture theatre. Sports facilities include a large sports hall, dance studio, cardio gym, weights room, heated outdoor swimming pool, squash courts and extensive playing fields and facilities for games - hockey, rugby, cricket, netball, tennis and athletics - as well as an astro-turf pitch. The school also possesses a Performing Arts Centre that houses a drama studio and music practice rooms, and a vibrant Sixth Form Centre. The school boasts an Observatory named after Dr Piers Sellers OBE, an Old Cranbrookian and NASA astronaut.

**Head**

David Clark

**Our Mission**
- To provide an outstanding all-round education with academic fulfilment at its heart
- To add value to our local community and provide exceptional boarding for those outside it
- To develop curious, resilient and empathic young adults, who are confident to follow their own paths

**Our Motto**

Maiora tento praesentibus aequus
- Equal to today, I reach for greater things_

**Our Values**
- Kindness
- Integrity
- Curiosity
- Aspiration
- Individuality