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Music Teacher

St James School, Exeter, Devon, EX4 8NN

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• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  15 September 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Music
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS-UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job Description:

• Enable the Trust to realise its mission to ‘Transform lives, strengthen communities and make the world a better place by developing and delivering the music curriculum at St James School.

• Teach music across the age and ability range in such a way as to challenge and inspire all students, with clear objectives, delivered in line with department schemes of work and school policies.
• Plan and deliver lessons to students according to their educational needs and with reference to prior attainment, SEN and EAL as required, striving to ensure equal opportunities for all and to provide students with the opportunity to achieve their potential.
• Assess, record and report on the development, progress and attainment of students in line with school policies, ensuring that marking and assessment are of consistently high quality and in accordance with the school assessment policy.
• Maintain effective behaviour management in the classroom, using positive behaviour strategies to ensure learner’s engagement in the lesson.
• Monitor the progress and achievement of the students following the course and identify the appropriate intervention strategies for underachieving students.
• Set high expectations for students and develop their behaviour for learning through focused teaching and through the development of positive and productive relationships.
• Manage, develop and share resources to enhance teaching of music.
• Promote enrichment and extension of music across the department, participating and developing events, trips and visits as well as producing high quality displays.
• Contribute to objectives of the curriculum area within the school objectives and take part in an annual review of the subject and curriculum area.
• Take a full role in the pastoral system of the school, by being a tutor and a member of staff well known to the community of students.
• Embrace the continued professional development programme within the school, striving to be a lifelong learner, maximising opportunities to make impact within the role.
• Be familiar with, fully support and reinforce the aims, ethos, policies and procedures of the school and Trust with students, staff, parents and other stakeholders where and when appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent
• Relevant University Degree (2:2 or higher) or Equivalent
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Recent and relevant teaching of good to outstanding lessons at Key Stage 3 and 4 in music
• A track record of excellent student progress demonstrated by examination outcomes

Curriculum and Knowledge:

• Wide knowledge and understanding of music within the curriculum context and wider world and how this complements other curriculum areas.
• Knowledge of current educational issues, an awareness of recent developments in the National Curriculum
• Ability to use data effectively to support student progress
• Know and use a range of teaching and learning styles
• Show an awareness of what constitutes outstanding pedagogy and practice

Key Skills:

• Ability to engage and support students to build an enthusiasm for learning
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
• Ability to work as part of team and independently
• A passion for ensuring that all aspects of school life demonstrate integrity and respect
• An ability to organise, plan and prioritise time effectively
• A willingness to challenge others, promote positive outcomes and role model for both colleagues and students in accordance with the Trust ethos
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Willingness to contribute and share high quality good practice with colleagues
• Ambition and enthusiasm to develop your subject area, your own knowledge and support others to develop within the academy.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Child Protection and Safeguarding requirements within an education setting and in accordance with the DfE expectations
• Fitness to undertake the role following a pre-employment medical check.
• Enhanced DBS clearance, other relevant overseas checks if applicable, satisfactory references covering a minimum of 5 years and certification demonstrating right to work in the UK

What the school offers its staff

St James is a school with an ambitious curriculum, disruption-free classrooms and great learning. Our mission is to empower our students to use their education to become their best selves, to thrive in fulfilling careers and to lead great lives.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Ted Wragg Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All appointments will be subject to a number of safeguarding checks including an enhanced DBS check.

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About St James School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 979 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St James School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@stjamesexeter.co.uk
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St James is a thriving, diverse and ambitious community with 980 pupils. We are an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school that is consistently one of the highest performing in the area. We perform so well because from the moment they join us, we ask our pupils to work hard and be kind. These two behaviours epitomise what we think is important for both pupils and staff alike.

Our school is situated in the East of Exeter on a new, purpose-built site which means we benefit from excellent facilities, including an art and photography suite with gallery, an amphitheatre, a drama studio and a theatre with full rigged lighting and raked seating, a 4G full sized pitch, a greenhouse, allotments and significant school fields.

At St James, we value teachers’ time which is why we have a sensible marking policy for classwork meaning that you are not routinely expected to handwrite feedback to pupils. Additionally, we have an automated system for homework which is planned, set and checked for you. All this saves you time so that you can focus on getting to know your pupils and planning the very best lessons for them. Across EBACC subjects, we have a common curriculum with fully resourced schemes that you simply need to refine for your classes’ needs.

Our classrooms are disruption free as our behaviour system removes pupils who do not follow our lesson expectations. All sanctions are centralised so that you can simply get on with your job: teaching.

We ensure that our students are outward facing and enjoy a full range of experiences and opportunities whilst they are at St James. We help develop open minded, receptive and kind people, who embrace new ideas and change and who enjoy life and want to explore it by experiencing new things. The arts are core to our curriculum and are the beating heart of our school. All students partake in the arts and are given the opportunity to take the full range of arts qualifications at KS4.

More than 70% of our pupils complete the English Baccalaureate, and, as a result, we see our students invited to join elite post-16 programs, such as the Exeter Maths School and the Reach Academy.

At the core of our ambitious learning culture is a broad, knowledge-rich curriculum, which is cohesive, cumulative and effectively sequenced. Our common curriculum is academic, rigorous and challenging, and designed with long-term memory in mind; students’ knowledge, skills and understanding are cemented by frequent and systematic revisiting.

Our curriculum aims not only to provide students with the knowledge and skills to obtain optimum GCSE outcomes but also to develop a love for subjects, acquiring knowledge and skills which set them up for future studies. Through a curriculum which, for us, encompasses every aspect of school life, we are developing our community of young people to have deep agency with their learning: they are curious about the world around them and proud to be learning with us.

We are committed to providing the very best environment for professional growth, believing that this is key to fostering an innovative and a progressive atmosphere. Our colleagues are incredibly committed and passionate about all that they do and are rewarded with bespoke CPD provision, in-house career progression opportunities, together with a relentless focus on staff wellbeing. If you are reflective in your approach and have a desire to be part of a highly successful school improvement team then this is the school for you.
Like Dylan Wiliam, we believe ‘every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better’. That’s why our teachers receive weekly coaching sessions so that they can reflect on and refine their practice. We don’t carry our formal, graded lesson observations as we believe our focus should be on helping teachers improve, rather than prove their practice.

Ofsted judged us to be a strong Good in our inspection in 2018. Our results in 2019 saw our students sustain the high level of performance of recent years. Headline figures show that 65% of students left with a grade 9-4 in English & Maths (a ‘standard’ pass) and 42% with a grade 9-5 in English & Maths. 77% of students achieved a 4 or above in English, and 62% a 5 or above, whilst in Maths 70% achieved a 4 or above, and 48% a 5 or above. The school’s strong performance in the Ebacc has also continued.

We value kindness at St James and work to be kind in all of our interactions and engender the same in our students. So, if you like to work hard and be kind and you like your pupils to do the same, St James School is the place for you.

The Governing Body:
The Local Governing Body operates with full delegated authority from the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust and is directly accountable to the Trust. The governors understand well their statutory duties to hold leaders to account as well as setting the strategic direction of the academy and ensuring the academy has a sound financial footing. Their commitment is absolute, believing in social justice they bring a rich background of experience beyond education. They are led by a chair determined for the academy to be a first choice for parents and where every child is given the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

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To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@stjamesexeter.co.uk.

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