Role Summary
We are seeking a highly qualified, enthusiastic and driven Teacher of Physics to join our friendly, professional and high-achieving Physics department.
An enthusiastic, well-qualified Teacher of Physics is required from September 2025. This is a rare opportunity to join an energetic, forward-thinking and high-achieving department. Physics is a core subject up to IGCSE and around 150 Sixth Form pupils study OCR Physics A level.
The successful applicant will be committed to delivering genuinely imaginative, varied and challenging courses at all levels in the school.
We seek to create a classroom ethos of collaboration and discussion, in response to a variety of high-quality stimuli. The last few years have seen a significant growth in the range of departmental resources, and we are excited by the enrichment that this continuing process provides.
The School has its own salary scale and offers generous non-contractual benefits, well above the maintained sector, to attract high-calibre candidates. Accommodation may also be available for the successful applicant. There is very strong commitment at Hampton to supporting the continuing professional development of colleagues.
The successful applicant will be expected to teach up to 30 (40 minute) lessons per week, which would potentially include a games afternoon and a form tutor period. The role involves planning appropriate lessons and dealing with marking and reporting. In this academically selective school, the challenges include stretching the most able up to Oxbridge level.
Contribution to the wider life of the School is also expected from staff at Hampton.
Hampton is rated 'exceptional' by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) for pupils’ achievements and learning. Inspectors also praised the School for fostering a culture ‘in which the individual matters and everyone’s contribution is valued.’
The Department
The Physics department currently has 12 teachers and 2 technicians and the post would suit either a newly qualified teacher or a more experienced teacher seeking a new opportunity within an outstanding and highly academic School.
The subject is taught in eight well-equipped laboratories situated together along a ground floor corridor in the main school building. All laboratories are equipped with a data projector which links to a laptop. The Physics Staff Room and lobby area for book collections are situated centrally within the Department. Technical and logistic assistance is offered by one full-time senior technician aided by one full-time assistant.
Physics at Hampton is taught by subject specialists as a separate and distinct science from the start. In the First and Second Year Physics is taught in Form groups of one double period per week to which is added a single period in the Third Year. All pupils are entered for Edexcel IGCSE Physics and there is no Double Award. 24% of timetable time is given to Science (Physics, Chemistry and Biology). Results have been outstanding with over 90% achieving 9 or 8 grades in Physics IGCSE in 2024.
On average, 75 pupils in each of the Lower and Upper Sixth years study Physics in the Sixth Form. The subject attracts a generous share of the stronger candidates in the School and in 2024 75% of the candidates achieved a A* or A grade. Sets average about 10 in size and do not usually exceed 12. These sets are taught by two teachers who work in parallel.
We also offer a one-year unexamined course in Further Chemistry and Physics (taught jointly with the Chemistry department) for those pupils in the Lower Sixth looking to extend their knowledge well beyond A Level. On top of this, extra classes are timetabled for Oxbridge preparation. We have an excellent record of success with at least half a dozen pupils gaining places for Physics, Natural Sciences and Engineering at these two universities each year.
Outside the classroom, there is a range of Physics-related co-curricular activities which allow pupils to take their interests further and in their own time. Large numbers of pupils are entered each year for the Institute of Physics Challenges and Olympiad.
Syllabuses
GCSE: Edexcel International IGCSE: Physics (4PH1) taken by all pupils
Sixth Form: OCR Physics A (about 75 pupils in each year group)
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