Gap Assistant
Old Buckenham Hall School
Suffolk
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary, accommodation and food provided
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 1st September 2025
- Apply by:
- 26 May 2025
Job overview
Start date: Monday 1st September 2025 (2 x Gap Assistants) and Monday 5th January 2026 (1 x Gap Assistant)
End Date: early July 2026
Hours: 45 per week, term time only
The Gap Assistants at OBH are a special part of the team and the whole community look forward to welcoming them in September each year. This is a really fun opportunity for a school-leaver who would like to spend an enjoyable year in Suffolk working with children.
The successful candidates are expected to support the teaching staff in providing an excellent standard of education and care to all pupils at the School. They are required to perform their duties with enthusiasm and positivity and enhance the school’s pastoral system. Each Gap Assistant’s timetable consists of assisting different departments with their teaching programme and supporting the boarding community at various times. Applicants with a particular interest in the following areas are encouraged to apply:
Marketing & Social Media
Science & Technology
Performing Arts
Please see the accompanying Job Description for more details.
Application Deadline: Friday 23rd May 2025
Attached documents
About Old Buckenham Hall School
Old Buckenham Hall is a leading co-educational preparatory school for children aged 2 – 13 years and has been educating children for over 160 years.
Here, children remain just that. They experience, they learn, they grow, but they do so within one of the most idyllic environments imaginable.
We are proud of our beautiful school, but it is what goes on inside these old walls and in the grounds that really matters. Every teacher at Old Buckenham Hall is committed to delivering the very best for every child. For us this means inspirational academic and co-curricular teaching, outstanding pastoral care and embracing risk and challenge. Children here feel happy and safe and they have a chance to explore their aspirations and develop their character.
Situated in the heart of rural Suffolk, near the historic town of Lavenham, Old Buckenham Hall is just 20 minutes away from Bury St Edmunds, Sudbury and Stowmarket; and 35 minutes from Colchester.
A range of transport options are available, including morning and evening bus routes and accompanied train journeys to London. Stowmarket and Colchester train stations are both direct lines to London Liverpool street.
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