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  • Job start date

    31 August 2022

  • Closing date

    20 May 2022 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    9 May 2022

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase
  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Drama

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£25,714-£41,603

Additional allowances

TLR - £6,738

Director of Drama job summary

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic teacher, with the ability to teach bright pupils from Key Stage 3 to A level, to lead a dedicated and successful department. Drama is taught to all pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9, and is an option thereafter. In Years 7 and 8, pupils have a single hour long lesson per fortnight. They develop specific skills, a general historical understanding and an ability to use drama as an explorative strategy. In Year 9 there are two lessons a fortnight and the department takes on the delivery of part of the PSHE programme, through Drama. At Key Stages 4 and 5 we follow the AQA syllabuses at GCSE and A level. Uptake is impressive, with two GCSE groups and an A level group. Results are strong (three year average of 80% A*-B at A level, and 65% 9-7 at GCSE). The Drama department shares Byng Hall, our performing arts centre, with the Music department. This collaboration between Music and Drama teachers encourages an exchange of ideas and crosscurricular opportunity on a significant scale. In terms of facilities, Drama has one specialist classroom, a specialist teaching space which is shared with Music, and the Thomson Theatre, a 180 seat theatre renovated to a very high specification in 2008, with raked seating and a hydraulic lighting system. The successful candidate will also be expected to lead the department’s extra-curricular work. This involves at least two performances a year, one senior production and one junior: these are shared between Drama teachers. There is also a high demand for rehearsal of A level and GCSE practical work. The department is also involved in supported a number of linked projects (eg. the National Theatre’s New Views writing competition). Theatre trips are common and we support a vibrant LAMDA programme. The successful applicant will be an outstanding teacher with excellent subject knowledge supported by a good honours degree in Drama or a related subject. The ability to form good working relationships with colleagues and students is essential.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About The Skinners' School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1141 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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Email address
wendy.dray@skinners-school.org.uk
Phone number
01892578103
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