Head of Art
Oakbank School
Wokingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS + TLR 2
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2021
- Apply by:
- 24 May 2021
Job overview
Job Purpose: To ensure the effective teaching of Art so that students can develop skills and knowledge.
Duties: The Head of Art is responsible for improving the quality of the learning and teaching of Art throughout the School. The post holder will be responsible for managing all activities relating to art. The duties will be reviewed annually as part of the Performance Management Review.
Curriculum: The Head of Art will be required to:
1. Raise standards of attainment at each key stage in art.
2. Ensure effective teaching, professional vision and knowledge in the art department.
3. Plan with line manager and senior leaders for the development of the department and write the Department Development Plan within the framework of the School Development Plan.
4. Ensure that the aims of Art Schemes of Learning and the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be imparted to students through the department, are in keeping with the general aims of the school.
5. Maintain and develop schemes of learning, within the framework of the National Curriculum and the requirements of examination boards.
6. Play an active part in ensuring that all students are working to their potential and achieving improved standards.
7. Ensure that students with special needs, gifted or less able, are catered for appropriately; to liaise with the SENCO about students with learning difficulties.
8. Play an active part in maintaining sound discipline, within the school’s agreed procedures.
9. Monitor the quality of teaching and learning within the Department
10. Oversee assessment of students, including reports to parents, internal records, records of achievement, internal examinations, external examinations; to give advice to students and parents
11. Keep abreast of curriculum developments affecting the department and be prepared to discuss matters affecting the curriculum as a whole.
12. Ensure that Health and Safety issues are properly understood and procedures followed.
13. Ensure that all safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to.
14. Create, maintain and develop conditions which maximise the quality of teaching and learning, and produce the best possible outcomes, in the department.
15. Create, maintain and develop an extra-curricular art programme that maximises the numbers of students engaged in art outside of their curriculum lessons.
Attached documents
About Oakbank School
- Oakbank School
- Hyde End Lane, Spencers Wood, Reading
- Berkshire
- RG7 1ER
- United Kingdom
Our school is proud to be part of Anthem, a multi-academy trust that creates ambitious and successful schools where every child thrives.
Our students are at the heart of the school, and we are immensely proud of their achievements and of the great opportunities our school has to offer them. We are an ambitious and successful community, where all students are supported, valued, and provided with everything they need to thrive.
Our dedicated and inspirational teaching staff are committed to ensuring Oakbank students leave prepared for the world ahead of them, with excellent examination results and with all the skills they need to succeed in the next stage of their education.
We are a truly caring and supportive school community in which every student is accepted and loved and where all students are encouraged to celebrate what makes them unique. We aim to provide the very best environment for success and our consistently high expectations drive Oakbank students to achieve personal excellence in all they do.
We are incredibly proud of our wonderful school community. We have made great strides in recent times to become a highly successful school and we will not rest in our ambition of being the best that we possibly can be.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, visitors, and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, suitable references, and other essential checks. Staff involved in recruitment and selection of employees are trained in safer recruitment, and all our staff and volunteers undertake Child Protection training.
Employee Benefits Include:
- Pension schemes - TPS (Teachers) and LGPS (Non-Teachers)
- CPD certified opportunities - available to all employees
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - providing wellbeing and confidential advice services
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Health Shield Scheme
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