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Percussion Teacher

Percussion Teacher

Cheam School

Hampshire

  • £36.44 per hour
  • Expiring soon
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2024
Apply by:
20 June 2024

Job overview

The successful candidate will: 

  • Provide instrumental tuition on a 1-1 basis with approximately 10 pupils. This number can go up and down but is approximately what we have at any one time.
  • Teach mixed ages from Year 3 to Year 8 so children from ages 8-13 years.
  • Teach a mixed ability of children from beginner to more advanced diploma level.
  • Teach for approximately 1 day a week on a Thursday.  
  • The role is offered on a casual basis with no guarantee of hours. Hours can, and will, vary each term dependent on the number of children signing up for lessons.  


The successful candidate will possess the following skills:

  • Experienced percussion teacher, happy to teach both drum kit and orchestral percussion
  • Inspirational drum teacher to support a dynamic Percussion Department at Cheam.
  • Inspirational leader experienced at working with children.
  • Comfortable working with beginner players as well as advanced players.
  • Good communicator with pupils and parents.
  • Team Player.
  • Willing to be part of a wider music team at Cheam. There is a huge opportunity for both Ensemble work and performing opportunities.
  • Competent ICT skills for administration purposes.

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About Cheam School

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+44 1635 267804

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Cheam was founded in 1645 and is one of the oldest prep schools in the world. Cheam is a IAPS boarding and day school with some 310 pupils, boys and girls, in the prep school and approximately 80 in the Pre-Prep and Nursery. Cheam prides itself on its excellent all-round record academically, musically, artistically and on the sports field. On completing their life at Cheam, children move to the top Public Schools in England, including Eton, Wellington, Marlborough, Radley, Harrow, Bradfield, Sherborne and St Mary’s Calne. The school is non-selective yet achieves consistently high standards academically through an inspirational and dedicated team of teachers, throughout the Pre-Prep and Prep Schools.

Cheam School is situated in a stunning rural setting of 100 acres, ten minutes from Newbury and fifteen minutes from Basingstoke, just off the A339.  It is surrounded by smaller towns and villages from which it draws many of its day pupils.

At Cheam children are prepared not only for the next stage but for life beyond.  The school nurtures and develops intellectual, personal, physical, emotional, creative and empathetic core values and skills in each pupil.  This is done through the creation of a happy, stimulating environment in which pupils experience a diverse range of opportunities and are encouraged to ‘give it a go’ and strive to give of their best in all they do.

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