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New Hall School requires a House Matron (Sixth Form Girls)
Salary: £26,000pa-£28,000pa
Rent free School accommodation provided; meals without charge in term time
Excellent CPD opportunities, including funding for BSA qualifications
New Hall Sport Club Membership (£20pa)
This is an exciting professional opportunity in the largest Catholic independent boarding & day school in the UK, providing outstanding pastoral care to boarders in our Girls' Boarding House (Sixth Form). The House Matron is expected to support the Catholic ethos of the School.
The successful candidate will possess patience, empathy and understanding in order to provide the very best of care to our boarders. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to students across the age range are essential. This is a residential post and School accommodation is provided. It is a genuine occupational requirement that the post-holder be female for reasons of privacy and decency.
New Hall offers an exceptional working environment, in a stunning Grade I listed building that was the former Tudor palace of Beaulieu. The School owns 140 acres of beautiful country parkland and heritage gardens. With a staff of around 300, New Hall is a warm, welcoming and supportive community. A new London rail station will open in 2025, at New Hall's front gate: Stratford, 26 minutes; London Liverpool Street, 34 minutes.
Applications considered on a rolling basis until midday, Thursday 26 September 2024
JOB ID: NH0553
New Hall is committed to safeguarding students. There will be an enhanced DBS check prior to appointment.
Information about the School
New Hall is a Catholic independent boarding & day school for girls and boys aged 1-18. New Hall School operates the highly successful 'diamond model', where students are educated in co-educational classes from ages 1 to 11 and at Sixth Form. However, from ages 11 to 16 they are taught in single-sex lessons. Click on one of the four diamonds below to find out more about our divisions.
The main benefits of the 'diamond model' and five years of single-sex teaching, derive from the ability to tailor pastoral and academic provision more sensitively and expertly to the needs of young people going through the physical, emotional and social upheaval of adolescence. Young teenagers are liberated from the negative peer pressure of having to perform in mixed classes. The gender stereotyping of subjects is also removed. Girls and boys follow an identical curriculum and do not learn to perceive subjects as being more suited to either girls or boys.
The Sixth Form experience at New Hall is about expanding students' horizons, both in their specialist areas of study and, more generally, in terms of their personal development.
From the moment New Hall students first travel up the mile-long, tree-lined avenue that leads to the grand façade of the former Tudor palace, they will be given individual opportunities to grow, learn, be challenged and to develop into confident young men and women. New Hall is set in an idyllic and convenient location, on the outskirts of the City of Chelmsford, Essex, just 30 minutes by train from London and within easy reach of all major London airports.
As a Catholic independent boarding & day school, at New Hall with every student we aim to educate the whole person: academically, creatively and socially, in a community which also nurtures the spiritual dimensions of human life.