* Date:
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Where did you hear about the vacancy?:
* First Name:
* Surname:
* What position are you applying for? For example
Sports Instructors
Martial Arts Instructors
Fitness Instructors
Dance Instructors
Drama / Musical Theatre
Arts & Crafts Activities
Music Teacher
ICT Teacher
Language Teacher / Leader
Science Instructor
Mathematics Teacher/Leader
Literacy / English Teacher/Leader
Other
* Do you have a First Aid Qualification?
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No
Date of Issue of First Aid
Sports Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Abseiling
American Football
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball
Boccia
Canoeing
Chess
Climbing
Cricket / Kwick-Cricket
Cross County Running
Cycling
Discus Throw
Dodgeball
Fencing
Fitness Ciruits
Floorball
Football
Free Running
Goalball
Golf / Tri-Golf
Gymnastics
Hammer Throw
High Jump
Hockey / Uni-Hoc
Horse riding
Ice Skating
Javalin
Kabbadi
Kayaking
Kids quad and moting biking
Kids Scooter Stunts
Korfball
Lacrosse
Lazer Shooting
Long Jump
Multi-Ball Skills
Multi-Sports
Netball
New Age Bowling
New Age Kurling
Olympic Games
Orienteering
Pedal Go karting
Raft & Bridge Building
Roller Skating
Rounders / Softball
Rowing
Rugby / Tag-Rugby
Sailing
SAQ ladders & hurdles
Sitting Volleyball
Skateboarding
Skiing
Snowboarding
Swimming
Table tennis
Teambuilding
Tennis
Tobogganing
Trampolining
Ultimate Frisbee
Volleyball
PE Lessons
Athletics Activities
Dance Activities
Games Activities
Gymnastics Activities
Orienteering
I am a level 3 coach
I am a level 2 coach
I am a level 1 coach
I am a level 1 coach
List what sports coaching qualifications you have?
Please explain your experience teaching sport to children?
Using the following format of a lesson, pick any sport and explain what you would do with 30 children aged 8?
1. Introduce yourself
2. Explain rules & consequences
3. Play a Fun warm up game (10mins)
4. Teach techniques of a skill (10min)
5. Play a fun game using the skill just coached (10min)
6. Play 1v1 games, 2v2 games working up to 5v5 games
7. Cool down
8. Award a child with star performer trophy
Martial Arts Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Aikido
Boxing
Ju Jitsu
Judo
Karate
Kendo
Kickboxing
Kung Fu
Ninjutsu
Taekwondo
I hold one of the following Martial Arts qualifications, Brown belt, black belt, 1st Dan - 4th Dan.
List what qualifications you have in Martial Arts?
Please explain your experience teaching Martial Arts?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Dance Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Ballet Ballroom Dancing
Barn Dancing
Body Pop
Break Dance
Cheerleading
Curriculum Dance
Dance Aerobics
Disco
Divali
Flamenco
Folk Dancing
Hip Hop
Jazz
Latin Dancing
Line Dancing
Rock n Roll
Salsa
Street Dance
Tap Dancing
Zumba
I hold one of the following qualifications in dance; IDTA, NATD, ISTD, BTDA , BBO, RAD , UKA, Degree in Dance
Yes
No
Please explain your experience teaching dance?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Drama Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Singing
Acting
Body Pop
Musical theatre
What qualifications do you hold in teaching drama?
Please explain your experience teaching drama?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Arts & Crafts Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Cake decorating
Collage
Cooking
Craft Making
Crochet
Drawing technique Portraits, Objectives, Shapes
Drawing workshop
Embroidery
Fabric painting
Face Painting
Flower decorating
Gardening
I can teach children to work on projects in 2D and 3D and on different scales
I can teach children how to mix and use different colours
Jewellery projects
Knitting
Mosaic projects
Moulding Clay
Needle felting
Origami paper folding
Paper mache projects
Papercraft
Printing projects
Quilling designs
Scrapbooking
Sculptures
Sewing Projects
Surface Decoration
Textiles
Using Digital media
Wire sculpture
Wood projects
What qualifications do you hold in teaching art and design?
Please explain your experience teaching art and design?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Fitness Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Body Combat
Body Jam
Body Pump
Boot camp
Boxercise
Buggy Boot Camp
Chair Based Exercise
Circuit Training
Exercise to music
Games Activities
HOT HULA fitness
I am Personal Trainer
I can teach about Nutrition for Physical Activity
Indoor Cycling
Outdoor Cycling
Pole Dancing
Pole Fitness
Salsa Aerobics
Step Aerobics
Strength & Conditioning
Weight Training
Yoga
Body Balance
Pilates
Tai Chi
Jukari Fit to flex
I am a OCR Level 2 Certificate in teaching exercise and fitness
I hold either a Level 2,3,4, Certificate in fitness instructing (awarded by Active IQ, City & Guilds, CYQ or VTCT)
What qualifications do you hold in teaching Exercise & Fitness?
Please explain your experience teaching Exercise & Fitness?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Music Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Percussion Instruments
Drums
Bongo Drums
Maracas
Electronic Instruments
Keyboard Instruments
Piano
Stringed Instruments
Violin
Guitar
Wind Instruments
Flute
Clarinet
Recorder
Saxophone
Trumpet
Create musical patterns
Help children write music
I can teach DJ skills
Musical instruments from waste
Singing
Speaking chants and rhymes
What qualifications do you hold for this role?
Please explain your experience teaching music?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
ICT Teacher Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
I can use SMART boards
How to use Word
How to use Excel
How to use Access
How to use Publisher
How to use Photoshop
How to create sounds & music
How to use make short movies
How to use take photo's and edit
What ICT qualifications do you hold?
Please explain your experience teaching ICT?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Language Teacher / Leader Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching
Sign Language
English
Spanish
French
German
Polish
Italian
Hindi
Punjabi
Please explain your experience teaching a language?
What language qualifications do you hold?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Science Instructor
Please list the kind of science activities you can teach children?
Explain what experience you have teaching children?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Mathematics Teacher / Leader
Explain what experience you have teaching children?
What mathematic qualifications do you hold?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Literacy / English Teacher / Leader
Explain what experience you have teaching children?
What literacy qualifications do you hold?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
* How much experience do you have teaching the follow age groups?
4-6 :
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Adults :
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* Do you have a CRB Disclosure within the last 3years?
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CRB Date of Issue?
CRB Disclosure Number
* If no, would you like to apply for one with Sporting Dreams
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I would like to apply also for a volunteer role to gain more experience
Yes
No Thanks
What grade did you achieve in GCSE Maths :
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What grade did you achieve in GCSE English :
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What is your highest academic qualification?
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BTEC First / National Diploma / A-Level / GNVQ 1 or 2year course
Higher National Diploma
BA Hons (degree)
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What was the title of your course?
What languages can you speak?
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* Date of birth:
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* Age:
* Nationality:
* Do you require a work permit?
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I'm Unsure
* Have you got a work permit?
I don't need one
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* Do you have a Car?
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Telephone Number:
* Mobile Phone:
* Email Address:
* Confirm Email Address:
* House Number/Name:
* Street/Road:
* Town/City:
* County:
County
Aberdeenshire
Anglesey/Sir Fon
Angus/Forfarshire
Antrim
Argyllshire
Armagh
Ayrshire
Banffshire
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Berwickshire
Brecknockshire/Sir Frycheiniog
Buckinghamshire
Buteshire
Caernarfonshire/Sir Gaernarfon
Caithness
Cambridgeshire
Cardiganshire/Ceredigion
Carmarthenshire/Sir Gaerfyrddin
Cheshire
Clackmannanshire
Cornwall
Cromartyshire
Cumberland
Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych
Derbyshire
Devon
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Dumfriesshire
Dunbartonshire/Dumbartonshire
Durham
East Lothian/Haddingtonshire
Essex
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Fife
Flintshire/Sir Fflint
Glamorgan/Morgannwg
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
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Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
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Kent
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Londonderry
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Monmouthshire/Sir Fynwy
Montgomeryshire/Sir Drefaldwyn
Morayshire
Nairnshire
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Orkney
Oxfordshire
Peeblesshire
Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro
Perthshire
Radnorshire/Sir Faesyfed
Renfrewshire
Ross-shire
Roxburghshire
Rutland
Selkirkshire
Shetland
Shropshire
Somerset
Staffordshire
Stirlingshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Sutherland
Tyrone
Warwickshire
West Lothian/Linlithgowshire
West Midlands
Wigtownshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
County Antrim
County Down
County Londonderry
County Armagh
County Tyrone
County Fermanagh
Westmorland
Cumbria
Glamorgan
Flintshire
Angus
Dumfries and Galloway
County Durham
South Yorkshire
East Yorkshire
* Country:
Country
England
Wales
Scotland
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* 1st part of the postcode:
EG: LE10
* 2nd part of the postcode:
EG: 1UB
Do you have any medical conditions we need to be made aware of?
Yes
No
What medical conditions do you have that we need to be made aware of?
What's the importance of a lesson plan? Tick which ones you think are important
It helps me focus & manage my time
So I know what I'm doing and I'm prepared
To plan what teaching points to get across
To hand to the head teacher to show I am well organised
I would complete a lesson plan the day before I am meant to teach
* Would you start the first 3 lessons off by going over the rules, expected behaviour & consequences so they begin to understand how they are expected to behave?
Yes
No
What strategies do you use or would you use to get children to stop and listen?
Inform the children at the start of the lesson about my strategies and how they must react
Raise your hand in the air and ask children to copy you and be quiet
Say to the children raise your arm in the air if you are listening
Say Freeze
Count down from 5,4,3,2,1
Use a Whistle
Say Stop stand still
Shout
Talk quietly
How would you deal with a child who misbehaves? Tick which actions you would take. Select one option or more
I would give them a warning and tell them not to misbehave and join back in. If they carried out messing about I would make them sit out for 2minutes and then ask them why have I made them sit out. I would then let them join back in.
I would make the child sit out straight the way to make an example of them in front of the class so that other children know they won't get away with misbehaving. I would ask the child, why have I made you sit out? I would then let them join back in if they agreed not to misbehave.
If I have made a child sit out and they continue to misbehave I would make them sit out again and inform them that I will have to tell the head teacher.
You become concerned about a child who you may think has suffered or is suffering from physical abuse from home or elsewhere , how would you deal with the situation and who would you inform? Tick which actions you would take
I would ask the child is everything ok, do you want to tell me anything?
I would ask the child how they got the bruise, wound or why they're upset?
I would inform their class teacher and head teacher
I would ask the parent what happened
What do children want to get from playing in your lessons?Select one option or more
To have fun
To learn
To be challenged
To succeed
What does a parent want to be ensured of by leaving their child in your care? Select one option or more
That their child is safe
Supervised at all times
With someone who cares about them
Will not be bullied
What do you think a head teacher wants from each of your lessons? Select one option or more
A lesson plan
Well organised
Rewarding good behaviour and performances with house points
Sessions have FUN as well as discipline
To follow school procedures and policies
How would you deal with a child with a nosebleed? Select one option
I would ask the child to pinch the soft part of their nose for 10mins and tilt their head slightly forward. I would reassure the child, inform their parents at the end of the session/day and fill out an accident report form. If in school I would send them to the first aid room.
I would ask the child to pinch the soft part of their nose for 10mins, sit down and tilt their head back. I would reassure the child, inform their parents at the end of the session/day and fill out an accident report form. If in school I would send them to the first aid room.
I would send them to the first aid room to get looked after
What is your understanding of the National Curriculum?
Select what you understand about using Differentiation in your lessons.
To have a plan of making things EASIER for children finding it difficult
To have a plan of making things HARDER for children finding it easy
Provide an example of how you have differentiated during your lessons?
Select the actions you would take to carry out a risk assessment and safety recursions.
Check the working area for any potential dangers
Find out where the first aid room/allocated first aider is located
Ask the school office staff or teacher if any children have any medical or behaviour issues you need to be made aware of
Check the children’s footwear and clothing
Conduct a registration / count total number in class
Find out where fire evacuation points are.
It's Sundays evening (6pm) and your due to start work on Monday morning. You're not feeling very well but you know that it will be hard to find cover at this short notice. Tick which actions you would take
Call or Send a Text to my manager Monday morning at 8.30am and inform them I cannot work.
Call my manager Sunday evening and inform them I may be unable to work so can you get cover.
I would continue trying to contact my manager if there was no answer or if I left a message to make sure they received my message.
You wake up and get ready to go to work go out and try and start your car but it's not working. It's 8am and you have to be at the School for 9am. Tick which actions you would take
I would call my manager and inform them I can't work.
I would try and get a lift to the school from family/friends, otherwise I would get a taxi and sort my car out after work.
I would try and fix my car and not go to work
You're on the way to your lesson and your car break's down. What do you do?
I would call my manager and inform them I can't work.
I would try and get a lift to the school from family/friends, otherwise I would get a taxi and sort my car out after work.
I would try and fix my car and not go to work
Attributes: Explain what you can bring to the Sporting Dreams team:
Criminal convictions: Have you ever been convicted of any criminal offence
Yes
No
Employment history: Please provide details of previous employment, include dates.
* References:
To support your application we will require two referees.& Ideally previous/present employer.
Referee one:
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Company:
Address:
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What is their relation with you?
Referee two:
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Company:
Address:
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What is their relation with you?
Equal Opportunities Policy:
Sporting Dreams is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All decisions on recruitment are based solely on the merits and abilities of each applicant, regardless of sex, marital status, religion, color, race, ethnic origin or disability. If at any time in the recruitment stage you feel a decision has been taken which discriminates on the basis of the above, you should formally write to the Managing Director of Sporting Dreams who will investigate your allegations.
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