Teacher of Music
Lister Community School
Plaistow, London
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Classroom Teachers Payscale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 22 February 2018
Job overview
Lister Community School is a large, 11-16 comprehensive school. Our vision is a world class education for young people in Newham. We are a mixed school that was judged ‘Good’ by Ofsted in 2013 and has just celebrated its 6th consecutive year of record breaking exam results.
We are determined to build on our most recent Ofsted judgement and continue our journey to becoming ‘Outstanding’ in the next two years. Our motto is “always aiming for excellence’.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This appointment will be conditional on successful pre-employment and enhanced DBS checks.
TEACHER OF MUSIC
(Required as soon as possible)
Classroom Teachers’ Payscale (Inner London payscale)
(NQTs can apply)
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an exceptional teacher of Music. Lister Community School is a successful community comprehensive, with specialisms in Science and Music, and provides a broad and rich curriculum for all its students. In the last five years Lister has made a huge commitment to Music education, and now provides every pupil in Yrs 7, 8 and 9 with free small group instrumental tuition. Following the creation of a non-teaching Director of Community Music post, our students now benefit from an exceptional range of partnerships and collaborative work with organisations such as Newham Music, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Southbank Centre, and others. This year, the department is leading on a large-scale project of their own: a grass-roots community opera project that will bring together 250 local young people and residents to perform a new work written and composed by Lister students and their families.
Our school is committed to continuing to develop high quality music education with high levels of student participation. The successful candidate will join a very strong team, with three other teachers and a core group of peripatetic teachers who are committed to working with the school and with our feeder primaries. We need a really skilled and dedicated teacher who will work with our talented and ambitious team to ensure that the Music education at Lister is genuinely world-class.
The school benefits from a partnership with the Music in Secondary Schools Trust, and will this year participate in a 5th Anniversary concert with other MiSST schools at the London Palladium. The department also work very closely with Newham Music, the local Music Education Hub, to offer joint provision and improve access to music for students across the borough.
Excellent instrumental skills on strings, woodwind or brass are essential; so too are the commitment, skills and high expectations which will lead to students achieving top grades in this subject, and the willingness to work collaboratively and to support a wide range of extracurricular activities including residential trips and high profile visits and performances. Experience of leading choral groups would be an advantage but is not essential.
If you think you have the potential to work as an outstanding Teacher of Music then an application form can be downloaded directly from our school’s website at: http://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/vacancies/ or by contacting Jackie Young (HR Manager) on 020 8471 3311.
Completed application forms must be returned by email to: Jobs@lister.newham.sch.uk
Applications are required by: 09:00am on Thursday, 22nd February 2018
Interviews: Tuesday, 27th February 2018 (all day)
We encourage visits by interested candidates, and you can contact Jackie Young (HR Manager) on 020 8471 3311 or by emailing Jobs@lister.newham.sch.uk if you would like to arrange a visit.
We will endeavour to acknowledge receipt of all applications, however depending on the volume of applicants this is not always possible. If you do not receive acknowledgement, please do not assume that your application has been received. We will only be contacting those candidates who have been selected to progress to the next stage of the process.
Please note we do not accept CVs and we do not consider applications from recruitment agencies.
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About Lister Community School
Lister Community School is situated in Plaistow, East London, approximately 10 mins walk from Plaistow and Upton Park Underground stations. We are also in close proximity to the new Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Westfield (Stratford) shopping centre. Please note we have no parking available onsite.
We are a specialist school in Music and Science. We are a mixed comprehensive secondary school and welcome both students and staff from a diverse multicultural background. With over 1,600 students, we are a larger than average school in the London Borough of Newham. The school benefits from being located in new and purpose built accommodation on a single site with ample outdoor areas and the use of an all-weather sports pitch.
The school is led by a team of senior leaders who are enthusiastic and experienced and, alongside all staff, share a positive and united vision for the school’s future. With an improved curriculum, vertical tutoring and house systems, Lister provides a well rounded and balanced experience for students.
Resource Provision for Deaf Children: Lister Community School hosts the Resourced Provision for secondary aged Deaf children in Newham. Specialist staff support students using a variety of communication modes such as BSL, SSE and Auditory Oral. Deaf students are taught alongside their hearing peers in mainstream classes for the majority of their lessons. The Deaf Support Department is made up of a large team of Communication Support Workers and Qualified Teachers of the Deaf who work with the deaf students in mainstream classes as well as small groups and 1:1. Deaf students may also have access to Deaf Awareness sessions and pre and post teaching.
Newham Community Learning: Our school is part of Newham Community Learning, which exists in order to provide an excellent education for all young people in our community. We are the only Trust to offer all-through provision from ages 2 - 16 within a single family of schools in Newham. Across our two primary and four secondary schools, all located in the west of the borough, we educate over 5,400 local children and young people, and employ a team of close to 700 members of staff, the vast majority of whom live locally.
To view opportunities at all our schools, please see our Trust page on TES.
Train with us - we are delighted to partner with Teach First to deliver our School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme. Teach First is a national charity that develops and supports teachers and leaders who are determined to make a difference where it is needed the most. As a training partner, we will be working with Teach First to deliver this one year teacher training programme, which enables participants to train and develop skills in the classroom. It is ideal for people who are eager to learn on the job and make a difference in their community from day one. Our Newham Community Learning SCITT Booklet has further information; please email traintoteach@ncltrust.net to find out more.
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