Teacher of Music (Maternity Cover)
Ark Greenwich Free School, London, SE18 4LHThis job expired on 20 June 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
20 June 2023 at 9am
Date listed
6 June 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Music
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time - Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, Sept 23 - April 24
Contract type
- Maternity or parental leave cover - Sept 23 - Apr 24
Full-time equivalent salary
- Ark MPS/UPS, Inner London
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an excellent Teacher of Music to join our Music Department to cover a period of Maternity Leave, for two terms only.
Music is highly valued and taught throughout the curriculum each week from Year 7-9. In Year 9 pupils will select their GCSE option subjects and Music is always a popular choice. Our first-class Music facilities and resources offer the ideal environment for our pupils to thrive and fulfil their potential. The music department sits within the performing and expressive arts faculty and the team consists of a technician, Head of Department, and a highly talented teacher of music.
The successful candidate will be capable of adding further value to a traditionally strong subject at the school. A passion for your subject and a commitment to extra-curricular activities is essential.
What the school offers its staff
- We are part of the Ark family of schools and benefit accordingly from outstanding networking and career opportunities and first-class CPD.
- Staff wellbeing is one of our main priorities. We do not do knee jerk reactions, fads or last-minute deadlines. Our systems and processes for communication, marking and feedback and assessment are streamlined and the approaches we take are research led and based on our local context.
- This is a small school model (600 scholars aged 11-16) because we believe that our close-knit family community provides the optimum conditions for success.
- Scholar behaviour is exceptional with clearly defined and embedded routines. This means our teachers can focus their time on the things that matter – planning and delivering brilliant lessons for our scholars.
- This is a strict no excuses, no mobile phone school. Phones are not permitted onsite at all. Scholars wear business dress to prepare them for a professional career.
- Our curriculum is traditional and academic, and we do not take shortcuts to seek to boost our position in school league tables – we do not, for example, offer equivalencies such as Btecs or Vcerts. >90% Ebacc entry rate.
- We put high-quality teaching at the heart of what we do. We are committed to providing staff with weekly high-quality training. We run coaching for staff who want to see rapid progress in their discipline. Live coaching and current best practice in the field of education is central to our approach.
- We don’t grade individual lessons or ask for lesson plans but we do place a primacy on curriculum design, independent learning and formative assessment.
- Scholars enjoy a compulsory co-curricular program on a Wednesday afternoon which includes a strong focus on community volunteering and we facilitate 12 drop-down days per year ensuring scholars benefit from a range of life-enriching experiences.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
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About Ark Greenwich Free School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 595 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ark Greenwich Free School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@arkgreenwich.org
- Phone number
- 02083193692
The opportunity to empower young people to grow and be successful is at the heart of everything we do. We provide the very best all-round education to prepare our scholars for the modern world. We are proud of our respectful and disciplined community where scholars and staff are safe and valued; a no-excuses ethos prevails; and aspirations are unashamedly sky-high. Our values of Ambition, Growth, Fellowship and Scholarship permeate all aspects of school life.
Our mission is to create a school of the highest standards that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff and in developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
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