Strings Tutor Fellow
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- £24,928 - £26,628 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 17 February 2023
Job overview
King Solomon Academy
Strings Tutor Fellow
Location: Marylebone, London
Salary: Band 4 of Ark Support Staff (£24,928 - £26,628)
Working hours: Term Time only; Full preferable Monday to Friday, circa 8.00am to 5.00pm during school term time (with a lunch break)
Contract: Fixed term contract until end of July 2023
Start date: ASAP
Closing date: Friday 17th February 2023 at 11am
The role
We are looking for a full time Strings tutor (please do contact us if you can’t commit to full time but can do a substantial proportion of the week) to join our team in providing inspirational strings tuition for our pupils across the academy from Year 4 to Year 11. We have been expanding our provision every year and are now very close to our full steady state capacity.
Person Specification: Strings Tutor Fellow
Qualification criteria
· Right to work in UK
· Grade 8 standard or equivalent on a string instrument
· Desirable: Qualified to degree level
· Desirable: Knowledge of/interest in the Suzuki method
· Desirable: Confidence in playing and teaching more than one string instrument (violin, viola, cello)
Experience
· Experience of working with young people or adults in a paid or voluntary capacity
· Experience of tutoring string instruments and leading ensemble work
Behaviours
Personal characteristics
· Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every pupil
· Passionate about music and nurturing this passion in our children
· Helpful, positive, calm and caring nature
· Able to establish good working relationships with staff and pupils
· Able to follow instructions accurately but make good judgments and lead when required
· Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
· Team player willing to work in a committed and driven team across a variety of scenarios
Specific skills
· Good communication skills, including written and oral
· Excellent numeracy and literacy skills
· Competent with computers and other technology
· Good administrative and organisational skills
· Able to understand and implement particular strategies and methods to help pupils to improve their learning and enjoyment of learning
· Able to deal with minor incidents, first aid, and the personal health and hygiene of the pupils
· Understands the importance of confidentiality and discretion
Experience
· First Aid training
· Available to support music related trips and other extra-curricular opportunities
Other
· Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
· This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check
View the full job description and person specification Here.
How to apply:
To apply and to see more information about the school and this role, please visit http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies and submit your application by the deadline.
To discuss the role, please feel free to email the Principal’s PA, Shaheen Riaz (s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org) or phone on 02075636901.
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In order to meet this responsibility, its academies follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
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About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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