Teacher of Performing Arts
The Aylesbury Vale Academy, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0WSThis job expired on 14 February 2024
Start date details
April 2024
Closing date
14 February 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 January 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Drama, Music
Working pattern
- Part time: Would consider 2, 3 or 4 days per week.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are a highly supportive school with strong subject and senior leadership to help you develop. We are looking for a highly ambitious, committed and dynamic professional to join our Performing Arts department; someone who is passionate about their subject, communicates well with young people and makes a positive impact on their learning.
The Performing Arts department comprises of 4 full-time and 2 part-time teachers including a Curriculum Leader of Performing Arts and Subject Leader of Drama as well as a Music Technician. We work collaboratively as a team to support each other with the demands of our work and our wellbeing.
The Performing Arts department offers a broad and ambitious curriculum offering an enriching experience in both Music and Drama. As well as an engaging KS3 curriculum, we offer GCSE and BTEC Music and GCSE Drama. We are now also offering a KS5 course in Music Production and are looking to start an A level Drama course starting in 2025. Like the Academy as a whole, our recent GCSE and BTEC results in Music and Drama saw students making excellent progress overall with positive P8 scores across both disciplines.
Our facilities at Aylesbury Vale are excellent; boasting 2 Drama studios and a Dance studio and 3 Music classrooms all with suites of iMacs. Our enrichment offer is ever growing an we have a healthy uptake within our Extra Curricular provision. We have regular productions including a winter drama production and an annual summer musical amongst others. Opting for a Performing Arts subject at KS4 can sometimes result in smaller, closely-knit cohorts providing an opportunity for personalised learning support from teachers and nurturing a genuine passion for Music and Drama.
The successful applicant will be an individual who embodies a genuine passion for learning, possesses robust interpersonal skills, demonstrates resilience, excels as a teacher and is able to teach across both subjects of Music and Drama to a good standard.
What the school offers its staff
There are a wide range of staff benefits that are available to all members of staff employed directly by The Aylesbury Vale Academy. Some of the benefits include:
- A workplace fully committed to the principles of the DfE Wellbeing Charter
- Priority admissions for school staff
- Bespoke CPD that is often self-directed
- Free employee assistance programme - 24/7 phone line for free emotional, bereavement and financial concerns
- Well-embedded systems that provide clear structures at the same time as allowing individuals to work with autonomy
- 10% discount on pre-school places
- 10% discount on Primary wraparound care
- 25% discount on the use of the Lettings facilities (sport pitches, sports hall, drama studios, Community suite, party rooms)
Further details about the role
The successful candidate will value developing key employability and life skills such as analysing evidence, considering impact, critical thinking, research, reciprocation and value developing literacy.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.
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About The Aylesbury Vale Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1816 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Aylesbury Vale Academy website
- Email address
- eperrin@theacademy.me
- Phone number
- 01296 428551
Thank you for expressing your interest in the post of Teacher of IT. This is a school where we aim to go beyond the expected to ensure that students' life chances are enhanced.
We are proud of our non-selective, fully inclusive status and believe that children and young people, regardless of their background, ability or circumstances can thrive and succeed here. That is why we place respect, aspiration and resilience at the heart of everything we do.
Arranging a visit to The Aylesbury Vale Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email eperrin@theacademy.me.
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