MUSIC
Gillingham School, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 4QPDeadline is tomorrow
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
25 April 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
24 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 32.5
Contract type
- Fixed term - One year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- M1 to M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Required from September 2025, Gillingham School in Dorset are looking for a dynamic and well qualified teacher of Music for a fixed term to cover maternity leave. A successful ECT candidate would be able to complete their first year of training in the first instance.
Music is taught by an enthusiastic and effective team who embrace new challenges to build upon the department’s popularity with pupils. Music and Music Technology is taught across all Key Stages. It is a highly successful department in a vibrant and supportive school. In addition to classroom based music, a large proportion of students participate in a diverse range of extra-curricular opportunities including Jazz Band, Concert Band, Orchestra, Vocal Groups, Music Tech and Chamber music with regular concerts, trips and a biennial music tour.
An excellent induction programme exists for new colleagues and opportunity for further career development is a real priority for our school. All colleagues who join our school are entitled to rich professional learning and ongoing professional development.
Gillingham School will conduct online searches
of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check and
the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work
with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of
discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct
the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant
and of concern.
We look forward to receiving an application form from you.
What the school offers its staff
Gillingham is an ambitious and happy school which offers excellent resources and outstanding facilities and a special ethos amongst both pupils and staff. The closing date for applications is Friday 25th April 2025. Please apply on line via the school website (https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk). We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions.
Gillingham School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to mpont@gillingham-dorset.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Gillingham School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1706 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Gillingham School website
- Email address
- mpont@gillingham-dorset.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01747822222
Welcome to Gillingham School in North Dorset, set in the heart of the beautiful Blackmore Vale.
Founded by benefactors in 1516, Gillingham School is proud and privileged to offer a quality and enjoyable educational experience that is open to all young people from the town of Gillingham, its surrounding villages and indeed, to young people further afield in Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset.
At Gillingham School, we recognise that children have many abilities, talents and personalities. Knowing that each student is different and that they learn in many ways, we aim to develop their abilities, raise their expectations and to provide the support that is necessary for success. By offering a wide range of experiences to our students both in and out of the classroom, students will receive a broad spectrum of learning.
'Docendo Discimus,' our school motto, means 'through teaching, we learn' and this recognises that learning is a shared, life-long process. The partnerships between students, teachers and parents are vitally important in ensuring that all students aspire to achieve the best possible chances for their future.
Gillingham School, furthermore, is a friendly, welcoming and inspiring school. Characterised by good behaviour, respect towards other and enthusiasm for new experiences, the positive ethos of Gillingham School has been a feature here for years and we remain committed to sustaining this into the future.
It is our privilege as teachers to welcome children into our school and to watch them learn, grow, develop and mature into the young adults who will eventually leave us and become the next generation of our community and our country. It is a delight when we meet former students some years later and hear how they have progressed, how far they have come and how Gillingham School helped them achieve their goals.
I was delighted to have been appointed as Headteacher in September 2017.
The unique and incredibly special ethos immediately resonated with me as I stepped through the doors and I am thrilled to have become a part of the school.
Gillingham School is a very happy school and we want our children to feel safe, secure and content always. Partnerships are very important to us and Gillingham School has a history of working with all members of our local and wider community in order to provide the best possible education for our students. This is something that we pride ourselves on.
Arranging a visit to Gillingham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mpont@gillingham-dorset.co.uk.
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