This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Science teacher with excellent leadership skills to play a key role leading the Science department of one of London's top day schools.
As Head of Junior School Science, you will provide leadership and direction to the Science department and offer expert teaching and contribute to the school's pastoral system.
You will have responsibility for the development and implementation of policies for the teaching of Science throughout the Junior School, in order to optimise pupil progress and attainment.
As the lead practitioner for Science in the Junior School, you will lead by example consulting and advising colleagues in order to establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to the teaching of Science.
About you
Experience of working as a Science specialist teacher in an academically ambitious primary/junior/prep school is essential.
You will also need the ability to teach inspiring and exciting specialist Science lessons across Key Stage Two, as well as monitor, evaluate and develop the provision of Science across the whole Junior School to ensure the highest possible quality.
The ability to communicate your vision for the future direction of the subject is equally important.
About the School
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:Competitive salaries and pay progression
Access to extensive professional development opportunities
GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
Training grants for qualifications
Free life assurance benefit
A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 6th October 2025.
Interviews to be held the week commencing 13th October 2025.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About
Wimbledon High School
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Wimbledon High School
Mansel Road
London
SW19 4AB
United Kingdom
+44 20 8971 0900
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour - and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
Promoting excellent teaching and learning
Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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