Competitive salary and benefits package including accommodation, private medical care, flights and relocation allowance, and free school places.

Full Time, Fixed Term

August 2025

20 December 2024

Hiba Academy form the bilingual arm of Wellington College China and offer a 3 – 18 educational program that combines the Chinese National Curriculum with the best of the West. Whilst there will be a strong emphasis on academics, Hiba Academy Nantong also fosters the pastoral and holistic aspects of school life to produce well-balanced, rounded, confident individuals who are ready to go out into a globally connected world. This ethos is set out clearly through our core values of kindness, courage, integrity, responsibility, and respect.
We are looking for a qualified Physical Education teacher who is keen to share their love of the subject with their pupils. Experience in an international settings is welcome as is experience in multi-lingual environments, and in the UK state or private sectors. Most of our pupils here are Chinese and we help them on their journey to developing fluency in English as they progress through the school before going to university abroad (mainly in the UK and US).
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
We are looking for someone who is passionate about teaching PE to inspire our children at Hiba Nantong. The successful candidate will be instrumental in developing the PE Department in this brand new state-of-the-art school. They will teach lessons to pupils up to GCSE. The aim is to make PE both accessible and enjoyable by promoting it across the school. Our school is bilingual, meaning that learning takes place in both English and Chinese, which will organically improve the English language acquisition for our children.
As the school matures, the children will eventually take i GCSEs and A-Levels before moving on to some of the best universities in the world, particularly in the UK and USA. As a result, the emphasis on language acquisition is a necessity.
We are looking for someone who is full of energy and is after both a challenge and an adventure.
Hiba Academy Nantong is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service, or local national equivalent.

Wellington College China is excited to show off the newest member of its family — Hiba Academy Nantong, whose vision is to cultivate talent through virtue, kindness and integrity. Hiba Nantong is committed to providing a world-class bilingual education to Chinese pupils aged 3 to 18 leading to university entrance overseas, primarily in the UK, the USA or Europe. Hiba Academy Nantong encourages its pupils to become both outstanding Chinese nationals as well as well-rounded, global citizens. We say that our children have roots in China but a global vision. Teaching is in both English and Chinese with about 50% of our staff being local Chinese and 50% native-English speaking expats. All of our Chinese staff also speak English and are role models to the children in the school. The Common Room is strong with both the Chinese and foreign staff teaching and socialising together.
Offering a complete 15-year education system, Hiba Academy Nantong has a total area of 80,000sqm and is the largest campus in the Wellington College China portfolio. It opened its doors to Early Years 2 - Grade 7 (Ages 3 - 13) in September 2022 and will expand by one grade per year hereafter until full. Having an enrolment capacity of 2000, the school also offers boarding accommodation for approximately 700 pupils, starting from primary school age. Hiba Academy Nantong adopts the same architectural style as Wellington College in England coupled with the latest, state-of-the-art facilities. Its teaching areas, boarding accommodation, school halls, library, indoor sports hall, swimming pool and outdoor football and rugby pitches are all designed to resemble its premium British counterpart in both style and quality.
Thanks to the network of talent Wellington College China has developed over the past 10 years, Hiba Academy Nantong has been able to assemble an outstanding academic team and a top-quality learning environment. Our links with Wellington College are strong and good practice and CPD is shared regularly between the schools. With more Wellington and Hiba school to come online in various global locations in the coming years, it is a very exciting place to work.

Working at Hiba Academy Nantong

Wellington College China has built a vibrant community where pupils and staff alike strive to achieve excellence in all that they do. We employ individuals who are genuinely passionate and committed to working in the educational sector.
We expect our teachers to share our high expectations and aspirations, for themselves and their pupils, and to be demonstrably committed to the all-round education that our Hiba approach embodies.
We offer a competitive salary and excellent employee benefits with opportunities for career progression in a global organisation. Through Wellington College China, employees gain access to comprehensive professional development and support.