Teacher of Drama (Maternity Cover)
Hawkley Hall High School, Wigan, Lancashire, WN3 5NY12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Drama
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time as specified in the STPCD
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until February 2026 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Teachers' Pay Scales
What skills and experience we're looking for
Hawkley Hall High School is seeking a passionate and dedicated Teacher of Drama to join our vibrant and high-achieving team on a maternity cover basis. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a school that values creativity, innovation, and excellence in education.
We are a heavily oversubscribed, mixed comprehensive school with a strong reputation for academic success and a commitment to the arts. Our Drama department is well-resourced, featuring a professional-standard studio with advanced lighting and sound equipment, and offers a rich programme of extracurricular activities including school productions, theatre clubs, and drama festivals.
What We’re Looking For:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Drama teacher who:
- Holds Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Has the ability to teach Drama up to Key Stage 4
- Possesses excellent subject knowledge and classroom management skills
- Is committed to delivering high-quality teaching and learning
- Is eager to contribute to the wider life of the school through enrichment activities
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Hawkley Hall?
- A supportive and collaborative working environment
- Outstanding facilities for Drama and Performing Arts
- A strong culture of professional development and CPD
- Opportunities to be involved in a wide range of creative and performance-based activities
- A school community that values respect, kindness, and integrity
Further details about the role
How to Apply:
Please submit:
- A completed application form
- A supporting statement (maximum two sides of A4) outlining your interest in the role and how your experience meets the person specification
Applications can be submitted electronically to jobs@hhhs.net or posted to:
Mr P McKendrick, Headteacher
Hawkley Hall High School, Carr Lane, Wigan
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit, please contact Charlotte Harrison, PA to the Headteacher on 01942 204640 or email c.harrison@hhhs.net.
Commitment to safeguarding
At Hawkley Hall High school, your child’s safety and wellbeing is very important to us. Our students regularly receive guidance and support in school about how to keep themselves safe but we recognise that sometimes, as parents and carers, you may also wish to seek advice or support regarding an issue which is affecting your child. This section of our school website will signpost you to resources and information that you may find helpful on a range of issues that affect our young people.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@hhhs.net
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hawkley Hall High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1177 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hawkley Hall High School website
- Email address
- c.harrison@hhhs.net
- Phone number
- 01942 204640
We are an 11 – 16 mixed comprehensive of around 1000 students and 150 staff situated to the west of Wigan. We are a community of students, staff, parents and governors with a common goal. We strive for the highest standards in everything we do.
We are proud of our positive, caring ethos based on a set of expectations we call ‘The Hawkley Way’ which has a fundamental principle at its heart; the principle of mutual respect. The students themselves coined the phrase in our code of conduct, ”Treat other people with respect to be respected in turn”. We believe this principle is essential for our happy and successful school community.
Hawkley Hall is a special place which has the highest expectations of our students ensuring that they achieve their potential. As an outstanding school, with National Support School and National Teaching School Status, our students and staff are provided with extensive opportunities.
Our success is built on core values of mutual respect as well as a clear understanding of the conditions required for effective learning. We have sustained our success because the following foundations are in place:
- Clear expectations of effort and behaviour
- Highly effective pastoral support
- A culture of academic success and progress
- High quality teaching
- Effective opportunities for student leadership to be developed
- Excellent buildings and resources that enhance learning
- A broad and balanced curriculum
Our commitment to providing the best possible education means we are never satisfied and are always looking for opportunities to improve. We place high value on development and research and as a result we attract the best teachers and support staff.
We are always open to visitors and would be happy to welcome you into school so you can appreciate the Hawkley Way.
Arranging a visit to Hawkley Hall High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email c.harrison@hhhs.net.
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