Part-time Teacher of Art (0.2 contract/1 day per week, Monday - Friday)

Bourne Grammar School is a dynamic educational community built on strong ethical foundations. We believe in supporting all members of our school, whether they be students or staff, and we share a commitment to fostering a positive atmosphere and promoting the best possible outcomes for all. As an employer we ensure strong professional development opportunities and encourage staff to identify ways in which they can improve and develop. We believe in adjusting to individual needs and treating individuals as individuals. Leadership within the school is characterised by collaboration, consultation and a willingness to listen.

Bourne Grammar School is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all students and staff, both current and prospective, and in this position, you will actively support an environment and culture that values diversity and inclusion.

The Art Department at Bourne Grammar School consists of two full time specialist art teachers, one part time teacher and two art technicians. We are a positive, kind and friendly department who work as a team to ensure students receive a challenging, ambitious and diverse art education. 

Art is taught across all key stages at Bourne Grammar School and follows the School’s ethos of developing a challenging and academically ambitious curriculum for our students. Art enriches students learning and provides the opportunity for them to think creatively and respond to the world around them, communicating their ideas and concepts through a variety of materials and processes. At Key Stage 3, we develop student knowledge of key artistic genres, preparing them well for GCSE and building on analytical writing skills. The study of Art History and artists underpins our curriculum and enables a more academic study of why practitioners produce art. Students are challenged to make links to others work and be inspired by what they see, using their own improved skills to communicate personal ideas. We ensure that each student is challenged, prepared and inspired to study Art further at GCSE, A Level and Higher Education.

In Art, we provide an inclusive environment that encourages experimentation and exploration allowing students to learn from their mistakes and reflect on their practice.  We regularly demonstrate techniques and processes to ensure clear understanding of each material explored. Students receive one on one time throughout each lesson; at GCSE and A Level individual learning plans reflect how each student has a choice to investigate their own area of interest, socially, morally, culturally or thematically.

Art is a popular subject in Bourne Grammar School and we aim to inspire our pupils and create a love of the arts and raise awareness of different issues and contexts that many artists faced or have projected in their work. We regularly take students on visits to expose them to different artists and genres of art, both historically and contemporary. 

Classes in years 7, 8 and 9 have one lesson of Art a week. Therefore, we deliver the foundations of art during these years to ensure students are well prepared for GCSE in Year 10. We use the Edexcel Fine Art Syllabus at both GCSE and A Level and have had outstanding results for six years with 100% 9 - 4 at GCSE and 100% A*- C at A Level. We are proud of the achievements of our students and each year have had success in sending our students to top universities and arts colleges in London to study an art-based subject at degree level.

 The Post

The role will suit an experienced artist with an interest in teaching, a newly-qualified teacher or an experienced teacher.

The post can be flexible and all patterns of flexible work will be considered (1 full day, two days split across mornings/afternoons) depending on candidate availability.

The Application Process

All applicants must complete a Bourne Grammar School application form and should submit this by email to recruitment@bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk no later than midday on Monday 3 June 2024.

We welcome visits from prospective applicants and these can be arranged by telephoning Ms Hill on 01778 422 288 ext 296 or email recruitment@bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk

Please visit our website for more information regarding the School: www.bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk

Bourne Grammar School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all who work here to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This appointment is excluded from the non-disclosure provisions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants must declare any convictions which for other purposed are ‘spent’ and in the event of employment, failure to disclose such disclosure such convictions could result in dismissal or disciplinary action by Bourne Grammar School. All information will be treated confidentially.