Head of Netball

**Salary**:
MPS + management point + competitive employee benefits

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
September 2025

24 February 2025

**Job overview**:
Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you passionate about inspiring students to reach their full potential? We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Netball to join us in September 2025.

Nottingham High School is rich in tradition and has been educating children for more than 500 years. Most important, it is a community and the people who work here believe that they can make a difference to the young people they teach. If you would like to join an academic and inclusive school, where we enable teachers to be the best that they can be, then we would love to hear from you.

This role comes with a management point and time allowance.

The successful individual is expected to make a full contribution to the School’s extra-curricular programme. Due to the nature of the role, this will also include pre-season training, after school & weekend sports team practices and fixtures, plus tours and overnight residentials. Progression through County and national schools' competitions may also see fixtures taking place in the school holiday.

Our staff benefit from a comprehensive CPD programme as well as competitive employee benefits including private medical healthcare and free parking on site.

**The closing date is 9am Monday 24th February 2025.**

No standalone CVs or agencies please.

**About**Nottingham High School**:
**Nottingham High School**
- Waverley Mount, Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- NG7 4ED
- United Kingdom

+44 115 978 6056

Nottingham High School is an independent day school (HMC) comprising of an Infant and Junior School (for ages 4 - 11), Senior School (for ages 11 - 16) and Sixth Form (for ages 16 - 18).

The school was founded in 1513 by Dame Agnes Mellers with King Henry VIII sealing the school's foundation deed in that same year. After more than 500 years of teaching boys, we welcomed girls into our school, becoming a co-educational institution in 2015.

Students come from a wide range of backgrounds and we are committed to maintaining a representative entry, supporting this with generous bursary and scholarship funds for Year 7. Together, these mean that about a tenth of Senior School students receive some form of financial assistance.

The Headmaster, Kevin Fear, has membership of HMC and the Acting Infant and Junior Head, Angharad Simpson, membership of IAPS.

The School has an extensive student catchment and is first choice for much of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.

Teachers at the High School are able to stretch the more able students whilst enabling all to achieve the highest possible value-added results. As well as teaching beyond the requirements of syllabus, there is a strong programme of departmental and School societies and clubs for students of all ages to enrich the curriculum. In addition regular visits are arranged to concerts and plays in the city through the High School Arts Society, offering subsidised tickets.

The High School operates a vertical pastoral system which is recognised as a particular strength. Tutors get to know the students in their charge very well indeed during the course of their school careers.

Music and drama in our own Founder Hall, and sport and outdoor activities (linked with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, Combined Cadet Force and our own Scout Group) are enthusiastically supported by students and staff, as is a strong programme of Community Action.

The Concert Band, music groups, choirs, wind band and orchestras thrive, regularly tour overseas and compete with national success in competitions. In recent years, the School has appeared in national finals for cricket, hockey, swimming, orienteering and chess.

The School has its own swimming pool on site, sports ground at Valley Road, ten minutes drive away and our own hockey pitches at Beeston Hockey Centre. There are facilities and coaching available in many other sports and tours are a feature of the major sports.

In 2020 the School was recognised again as a centre for best practice by the Independent Schools Teacher Induction Panel (IStip) following their quality assurance visit. This recognises the high quality of NQT provision at Nottingham High School.

In recent years we have focused in particular on the importance of stretch and challenge, meta-learning, interleaving and spacing, as well as the development of blended learning. As a result, we are seeking to employ dynamic, forward-thinking teachers who engage with teaching and learning initiatives, are committed to sharing best practice, and willing to adopting new technologies as appropriate.