Teacher of German

HAMPTON, United Kingdom Teaching On site

Hampton is one of the country’s leading, most successful and best-resourced independent schools and has been helping boys to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations for over 460 years.

Established over 460 years ago, Hampton is one of the country’s foremost, highest-achieving and best-resourced independent schools. Our community is vibrant, dynamic and happy, making it a wonderful place to teach and learn. Members of the Common Room are talented and hugely supportive of one another and their pupils; they share their love of learning with young people who are bright, intellectually inquisitive and aspirational.

Hampton is a lively, friendly and inclusive School community where we aspire to enable our boys to not only to make sense of the world, but also to want to go out and improve it. Above all, Hamptonians are encouraged and indeed expected to aspire to personal best while supporting those around them with kindness and respect.

Situated on a green-field site in a leafy suburb of South West London, we are fortunate to have 28 acres of playing fields within our spacious grounds. Pupils and staff alike benefit from first-class facilities across all areas of School life. These include a state-of-the-art 3G sports ground, a large and well-appointed Sports Hall, and the remarkable Hammond Theatre for the Performing Arts, along with an excellent library and specialist facilities for Art, Music, Science, Technology, Computer Science and Languages (Modern and Classical).

Our older pupils enjoy impressive Sixth Form private study and Careers provision in The Barry Martin Centre. The Millennium Boat House, shared with our neighbouring girls’ school, Lady Eleanor Holles, has a prime location on the nearby River Thames, and provides the focal point for our popular and successful Boat Club.

Hamptonians’ examination results and university entrance record consistently rank in the top echelon nationally and indeed internationally. Nearly all Hampton leavers go on to undergraduate courses at Russell Group or equivalent universities; around 25 pupils are offered places at Oxford and Cambridge annually, and a significant number move on to global top-10 universities. We also support pupils who wish to study at universities in North America, some of whom secure academic and/or sporting scholarships.

Hampton’s notably diverse, socially inclusive nature is an especially cherished part of our DNA and we as far from being a stereotypical public school as any setting in the independent sector. Currently, 7% of our boys (around 100 in total) attend on means-tested, free places, many of which are funded by a separate but closely linked educational charity, The Fitzwygram Foundation.

‘One of the most genuinely inclusive, diverse independent schools in the London area’. Good Schools Guide

A copy of the full ISI report can found on the School website and a summary booklet of the inspection team’s key findings is linked here.

Hampton is one of the country’s foremost academically selective independent schools and this is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant and successful department in a happy, high-achieving setting.

German is a popular subject, taught within the core curriculum and offered as an option to pupils from First Year (Y7) through to Upper Sixth (Y13).

In the Fourth and Fifth Year (Y10 & Y11), pupils work towards the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) IGCSE. Sixth Form pupils progress to either the AQA A Level or the one-year Goethe-Zertifikat B1.

The German department benefits from a wide range of high-quality published resources, including online eBooks and subscription platforms such as This Is School and Language Nut, alongside a strong suite of our own bespoke teaching materials.

Pupils’ enthusiasm for German is actively encouraged through imaginative, varied and appropriately challenging courses at all stages of the School, including structured preparation for Oxbridge.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach German up to and including A Level. The School has a strong record of academic success, with many…