Head/Teacher of Drama
Skinners' Kent Academy, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 4PYDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
2 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Drama
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday Teachers 1265
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1-UPS3
Additional allowances
TLR 2.1
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to recruit a dynamic Head /Teacher of Drama who is driven to enhancing student enrichment. The ideal candidate will be passionate with their craft ensuring student success.
Drama is taught as a compulsory subject until the end of Year 9 where it becomes a GCSE option subject. Students learn about theatre as a product and Drama as a process. We are proud to specialise in the teaching of technical theatre and design and have had great success at GCSE level with technical theatre results, we have technical students that have achieved places at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. We have strong connections with local theatres and festivals and ensure that our students benefit from these connections with opportunities like reviewing productions and volunteering for the Tunbridge Wells Puppetry Festival for example.
We run weekly drama clubs, stretch our most able and talented with masterclasses, run inhouse National Theatre on Demand viewings to encourage our students to see live/recorded theatre and we arrange trips to local and regional theatres. We look at our Drama curriculum and work with other subjects to support cross curricular teaching, our academy productions are varied and this year we are looking to offer a sixth form production for younger students to enjoy watching and benefitting from.
What the school offers its staff
We offer a valuable pension package of benefits for members and their dependents. Generous employer contribution, tax relief on contributions, flexibility to pay more of less in contributions,m flexible retirement options.
Fitness suite and sports facilities
Local Authority Reward Scheme
ePlatform: digital library
EV charging station
Free onsite parking
Commitment to safeguarding
The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.
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About Skinners' Kent Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1036 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Skinners' Kent Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01892 534377
The Skinners’ Kent Academy is a non-fee paying, co-educational, all-ability Secondary school. The Academy is funded by the DfE and sponsored by The Skinners’ School, a grammar school for boys together with the Skinners’ Company, one of the ‘Great Twelve’ livery companies of the City of London.
The Academy is founded on the principles of a commitment to ensuring high standards and high aspirations, of active participation, an emotionally rich learning environment and an inclusive culture where every child is known and every learner supported.
Arranging a visit to Skinners' Kent Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk.
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