Drama Teacher
Eastlea Community School
Newham
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Summer Term 2019
- Apply by:
- 4 February 2019
Job overview
We have a great opportunity for a well-motivated and enthusiastic Teacher of Drama to work within a highly successful, committed and forward-looking Arts Department. The successful candidate will be expected to teach Drama across a range of classes across Years 7 – 11. Applications from NQTs with an appropriate academic background are welcome.
Eastlea Community School is a co-educational, inclusive school. Alongside promoting excellent academic outcomes, our school ethos supports students to become confident and well rounded, independent and creative, responsible and caring. Our students are capable, hardworking and a delight to work with.
As Drama Teacher you will plan, resource and deliver lessons to the highest standard, ensuring meaningful learning takes place and pupils make rapid and sustained progress. You will create a pleasurable and stimulating learning environment for students, and fully implement our routines and techniques for creating a culture of high expectations.
Your challenge will be to inspire pupils to achieve at least expected progress and the majority to exceed that standard. We will look to you to support and encourage student participation in activities extending their educational experience outside the timetable too.
You will also contribute to the enrichment and transition programmes aimed at improving the quality of education for students of all abilities. . We will look to you to participate in our quality assurance and performance management processes as well as promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils.
Eastlea is a fully inclusive, friendly and supportive Community School where employees are valued and developed. You will want to make a real difference to young peoples’ future, be passionate about achievement and standards along with your own professional development and progression.
Behaviour is excellent. Our parents and students have high aspirations and teaching spaces are inviting and well resourced.
The school is within walking distance to West Ham, Plaistow, Canning Town and Star Lane stations and is close to the dynamic London Docklands and Canary Wharf.
If you would like the chance to meet our dedicated and supportive team & find out more about our school, please come and visit, we would love to meet you. Alternatively for an informal discussion about this post please contact the school on the above number.
An application form and further details can be obtained from the School Website or London Borough of Newham Website.
Completed forms should be returned to the school by: Monday 4 February 2019 @ 12noon
Interviews will take place week beginning: Monday 11 February 2019
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
Eastlea Community School has a strong commitment to equal opportunities and diversity in all aspects of employment within the London Borough of Newham and in its services to students, staff and the wider community. All employees are expected to understand and promote equality and diversity in the course of their work.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN
Eastlea Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and uphold all relevant procedures.
An enhanced current DBS clearance is a necessity for this post.
About Eastlea Community School
Eastlea Community School is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational secondary school in the London borough of Newham, serving students between the ages of 11-16. The secondary school, situated in Canning Town, has the capacity to accommodate 1200 students. Eastlea has a large number of high needs students including PMLD.
We pride ourselves in being a diverse school with over 80 different languages spoken amongst our students, many of these students are mid-phase admissions having newly arrived in the country. We understand that our students need to be prepared for the fast evolving future where vital skills like resilience and independent thinking are as important as core skills and teamwork, and so in Key Stage 3 we follow the National Curriculum for Years 7, 8 and 9, with GCSE studies beginning at the start of year 10.
Key Stage 4 offers learning pathways to best suit individual students. English Baccalaureate is offered and students are encouraged to take a language and history/geography, our curriculum at this stage is designed to give students the best possible preparation for Key Stage 5 study.
Executive Headteacher
Charlotte Robinson
Head of School
Sarah Morgan
Chair of the Interim Executive Board
Paul Leslie
The school offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities for students to get involved in and learn new skills, to gain further interests and develop social skills, allowing for them to practise their communication skills and build new friendships from outside of their regular classes.
Our Vision
Young people represent the potential of our society and the future of our global community. The aim of Eastlea is to nurture our students intellectually, morally, spiritually and physically to their full potential within the context of social responsibility.
In partnership with students, parents, staff, governors and the wider community, the vision at Eastlea is:
- to be recognised as an outstanding school that provides a safe, stimulating, creative and dynamic learning environment that strives for excellence and values achievement
- to be a community of learners where students are known and supported as individuals
- to foster individual goals, developing the skills of the learner within a happy, caring and inclusive environment
- to prepare students to play an active role in the world
- to provide a safe learning environment in which students feel secure and where self-esteem, confidence and respect, both for self and for others, can be promoted
- to make our school a place where students want to be and want to learn
Our Values - Aspire, Respect, Integrity, Curiosity and Enjoyment -to see the full content of our values please click the link
https://www.eastlea.newham.sch.uk/our-vision-values
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