Teacher of Drama
Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 2DUThis job expired on 27 January 2022 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 January 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 January 2022
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Drama
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Maternity or parental leave cover - until the return of substantive post holder
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Teacher of Drama job summary
The governors of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invite applications for the post of Teacher of Drama. We seek a highly motivated and energetic candidate to join our very successful and very well-resourced Drama department. The school benefits from a purpose-built concert/drama hall, a drama studio and excellent facilities in the main hall. If you believe you can enhance our performance further, and are committed to academic excellence, we would be interested in your application.
In 2019, 96% of all students secured five or more A*-Cs at GCSE, and 84% of A level entries were graded A*- B.
96% GCSE Drama results were graded 9-5, with 78% at grade 9-7 and 100% of A Level Drama results were graded A*-B.
The school is situated on an attractive 35-acre site in the Green Belt, has excellent facilities and is committed to an extensive programme of staff development. Central London is easily reached by rail from Potters Bar and the school is close to motorway links.
The Governing Body is committed to admitting the children of staff in line with our admissions procedures.
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About Dame Alice Owen's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1449 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Dame Alice Owen's School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
Dame Alice Owen’s School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with over 1,440 registered students and a vibrant and highly successful sixth form. Our school was founded 400 years ago by Dame Alice Owen, a remarkable philanthropist with an unusually modern vision for education. She established the first school in Islington and as demand outstripped space, it moved to its current setting in the Hertfordshire countryside. Because of its roots and its close and important relationship with the Worshipful Company of Brewers, there are 20 places each year for 11 year old students from Islington. It also offers 65 places to the highest scoring applicants who sit the entrance exam each year and a further 10 places for students showing the most aptitude in music who apply for a place in Year 7. The remainder of the places, in an annual cohort of 200, go to siblings, local students on the basis of proximity to the school and to those with priority need.
It is this combination of student and its truly outstanding record of achievement and added value that makes our school such a special place. It is oversubscribed by 5 applicants per place every year. Our dedicated staff, parents’ association, Governing Body and school (staff and student) leaders constantly appraise and re-appraise the various aspects of school life, learning and achievement so we are never complacent. Our school faces the usual challenges of all educational establishments in the public sector, and ensuring that their impact is felt least by the students is a key objective.
We were delighted to be recognised as The Sunday Times Regional School of the Decade in November 2020’ and the country’s highest ranking non-fully selective state school of the year in 2021. Securing a place at Owen’s has been described as “winning the lottery” in the Good School Guide and “the golden ticket” in Tatler. Our school benefits from some of the most able students in the country. Many of our school leavers from Year 13 have offers from top universities to choose from, including on average 20 places at Oxbridge each year.
Our Foundress left a number of fields in the then village of Islington to the care of the Worshipful Company of Brewers which now generate over one million pounds of additional income for the school annually, to support the school. This creates a very special ethos and fosters the very positive staff working environment. The students and staff benefit from a number of traditions including Beer Money, staff awards and Visitation.
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