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Teacher of Music and Performing Arts (0.4 FTE)

Teacher of Music and Performing Arts (0.4 FTE)

Barnes Wallis Academy

Lincolnshire

Salary:
M1-M6
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
01/09/2019
Apply by:
23 June 2019

Job overview

The David Ross Education Trust is now recruiting for a Teacher of Music and Peforming Arts to start as soon as possible. If you are an experienced in this role, Barnes Wallis Academy could be the ideal next step in your career.


About the role

To create a positive ethos and climate for learning in your classroom with high expectations for behaviour and work output alongside a fair and transparent system of praise and reward.

To monitor the progress of students against targets, intervene accordingly and evidence this intervention.

To use subject data to compare academy progress with national and local expectations and to monitor and evaluate progress from previous years.


 Our Academy

Barnes Wallis Academy is pleasantly situated within the villages of Coningsby and Tattershall. Its small size undoubtedly helps to create a strong feeling of togetherness that contributes to the ease of relationships between students, parents and staff.

The academy believes that education is very much about treating students as individual learners. The staff work hard to find out what will help students to reach their full potential.


 Salary & Benefits

  • MPS/ UPS
  • Access to Teachers' Pension Scheme.
  • An excellent provision for your professional development and Leadership Development programme


Who we are looking for:

  • An understanding of Music and Peforming Arts teaching
  • Enable students to achieve high expectations through good quality teaching and learning
  • Inspire students to have high aspirations and achieve their full potential
  • Build and maintain relationships with staff, governors, parents, students and the community
  • Demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm and motivation
  • Foster an open, fair and courteous environment
  • Demonstrate strong analytical skills to inform improvement
  • Be innovative and able to manage change
  • Communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  • Have a genuine liking of young people
  • Show they have a sense of humour and perspective
  • Adaptability, flexibility and determination
  • Work independently and as part of a team
  • Suitability to work with children


About The David Ross Education Trust

The David Ross Education Trust (DRET) has grown to a network of 33 academies, incorporating primary, secondary and grammar, and special schools. We employ over 2000 people with the primary focus of raising the standards of education for 13,000 young people. Whatever your role, you should know you are contributing to achieving our vision of inspiring the next generation of young people to be the best they can in whatever they choose. Our aim is to be the country’s leading academy chain, committed to delivering the highest educational standards alongside an unrivalled package of sporting and cultural enrichment, including events such as the DRET Spring, Summer and Winter Cups, Music Cup, volunteering trips abroad, and regular trips/visits throughout the year.

We are incredibly lucky to be able to work alongside outstanding organisations and individuals who are happy to share their expertise and skills in supporting the David Ross Foundation's vision to give children better life chances through access to the best education and support we can give them.

While each academy is unique, we share common goals, aspirations, values and methods that enable us to work collaboratively and collectively to achieve our mission. We operate regional hubs, whereby academies work with other schools who are part of the Trust so we can share skills and knowledge, allowing them to benefit and learn from each other.

Barnes Wallis Academy is committed to equality, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.

About Barnes Wallis Academy

+44 1526 342379

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The Barnes Wallis Academy is a mixed, mainstream, state secondary school located in Tattershall, Lincolnshire.  It caters to students aged 11 to 16 and has a growing roll with approximately 470 students currently. 

The Barnes Wallis Academy was founded in 1954 and was previously named Gartree Community School.  It began as a foundation school administered by Lincolnshire County Council and converted to academy status on 1st September 2014.  The school is now sponsored by the David Ross Education Trust but continues to coordinate with Lincolnshire County Councils for admissions.  In 2017 the Academy gained a “good” rating from Ofsted with personal development, behaviour and welfare being graded outstanding.

Executive principal 

James Scarrott 

Vision and values 

The Barnes Wallis Academy aims to provide a curriculum that excites learners and meets their intellectual needs.  Teachers strive to produce students who are resilient, confident and healthy, with the ability and desire to make the world a better place.  Every student is encouraged to positively contribute to the wider community. 

The Academy implements policies that respect an individual’s well-being and dignity, provide opportunities for success and acknowledge good efforts as well as personal achievement.  The school’s ethos is "Educational excellence for the community" and it aims to broaden horizons. 

The staff and students are proud to be an integral part of the local community and are actively involved in local events.  The Academy has a culture of celebration of achievement and places a high emphasis on the well-being of its students and their pastoral care.

English, maths and science are emphasised in the curriculum.  Humanities, arts, languages, technology and vocational qualifications are also available.  Vocational qualifications include BTEC Sport, BTEC Child’s Play, Learning and Development and BTEC Performing Arts. The curriculum also addresses global issues, the environment and economic awareness.

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