Teacher of Music
George Stephenson High School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE12 6SA10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
21 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 October 2024
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join our very successful and thriving Performing Arts department, who work together very closely, sharing ideas, resources and strategies to build on existing good practice. The department is committed to excellence in teaching and learning. As a team, the department believes in a caring, positive, stimulating environment in which to support students in their learning and to help them to develop into mature, responsible young adults. As colleagues, they provide a similar degree of warmth and support. The department has very high expectations of students and of themselves, but also believes in maintaining a sense of humour and genuinely enjoy working together.
The successful candidate will be able to teach Music to Level 3 and the willingness to teach Drama/Performing Arts to at least key stage three. We have switched from BTEC Music and Drama to GCSE in both subjects so last year’s year 11 was the first cohort through on the Eduqas GCSE Music. At Sixth Form, the department is able offer Post 16 qualifications in both Music and Drama depending on student uptake and demand. To develop Key Stage 3 further, we run the Bronze Arts Award group for selected Year 9 students, with a view of developing this further into Silver and Gold. This year’s cohort all passed their Bronze Arts Award, and we have began the process of rolling this provision out to more students.
Extra-curricular wise, we currently perform a hugely successful annual full-scale musical theatre production in Easter, along with a winter concert and summer soiree (awards/concert). There are a range of weekly clubs including choir, drama club, dance club and school production preparation. We offer peripatetic music lessons across singing, piano, brass, woodwind, strings, guitar and drums, with approximately 80 students taking up these lessons.
Students regularly participate in a range of other brilliant opportunities that take part in throughout the year, such as workshops from Dance City, Sunderland University workshops and performances, North Tyneside Dane Festival, Performances at Glasshouse, Local songwriter workshops, NTMEH days, theatre visits and visits to local primary schools.
This is an interesting and demanding post, but one which will give the right candidate an opportunity to be part of a committed and dedicated team of teachers and support staff, whose prime aims are the continuing improvement and development of the school and the support and encouragement of its students.
What the school offers its staff
At George Stephenson High School, we believe we offer the best education possible for all of our young people, as well as a warm and friendly atmosphere. We value the individual differences of our students, encourage them to succeed in everything they do and help them to become caring, confident and responsible young people. We strive to achieve this through providing excellent teaching, fostering the very best relationships, having a personalised and enriched curriculum, having the highest aspirations for all of our students and developing strong partnerships. We also want the school to be at the very heart of the local community and to be the school of choice of all who live here. We are a popular, inclusive, and oversubscribed school that is central to our community. The roll has grown from 850 in 2010 to over 1200 today. We are delighted that we will be oversubscribed again next year.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About George Stephenson High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1207 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- George Stephenson High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- acowen@gshs.org.uk
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