Assistant Director of Music
Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018 or earlier
- Apply by:
- 21 November 2017
Job overview
Opportunity for an experienced Music teacher to join a thriving Music Department and play a key role inspiring our students to enjoy making music and relish the performing opportunities available to them.
As the Assistant Director of Music, you will work alongside the Director of Music in promoting the academic and co-curricular aspects of the Music Department across the School. You will also teach across KS2-5, delivering excellent musical lessons across the age range, encouraging our girls to focus on the key skills of analysis and evaluation alongside the practical skills of composition and performance.
You will be joining a department that is academically strong, with excellent GCSE and A Level results achieved over the last four years and many of our pupils having gone on to read music at university. The Department is attached to the Rutherford performing arts centre and offers two large music classrooms, both fully equipped with two suites of MacBook Pros running Sibelius 7, as well as seven practice rooms used for peripatetic instrumental teaching. The Department has recently undergone refurbishment with two new classroom sound systems, a recording studio being installed to the A Level classroom and sound bars being installed in each of the practice rooms.
If you are an outstanding musician with excellent subject knowledge and experience of planning and teaching KS2 and/or KS3 we would be delighted to hear from you.
In return, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• Free school lunches
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
For further details and to apply please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 21 November 2017.
Interviews will be held on 1 December 2017.
Wimbledon High School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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