Teacher of Media

Studio School & Sixth is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, hardworking teacher to join our media team.

About Studio School & Sixth

Studio School & Sixth is a specialist 14-19 non-selective school and founding member of The Mercian Trust.

Located in the heart of Walsall town centre, our unique small school and sixth form offers an immersive professional experience; supporting academic, vocational and personal excellence for students starting Year 10 or Year 12 who seek a creative and digitally rich curriculum.

Vocational learning is really important here, but it would be wrong to think that this means our students focus purely on practical work. There’s plenty of theory to learn and we strike a good balance between the academic and the vocational. Above all, we challenge our students to be the very best they can be in their chosen fields.

Back in the Renaissance, more than 400 years ago, ‘apprentices’ studied under the guidance of ‘masters’ and it’s this model that has influenced the way Studio Schools operate today. Of course, much has changed and now, thankfully, those ‘masters’ and ‘apprentices’ are just as likely to be women and girls as men and boys.

Studio School & Sixth has almost 300 such ‘apprentices’. It’s one of only a handful of Studio Schools in the country and opened its doors in 2013. Its students go on to universities, conservatoires and high-quality apprenticeships. The school focuses on the creative, health and digital industries, which means students have careers as paramedics, therapists, software engineers, actors, dancers, teachers and much else besides.

Join our team

· Do you want to work in a school that champions creative industries?

· Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity in the field of media and digital technologies?

· Are you ready to pass on your technical and specialist knowledge/ skills to the next generation of budding media professionals?

Whether you have experience of teaching Key Stage 4 and 5 (Level 2 and 3 qualifications or you are completing your Postgraduate Certificate of Education (or equivalent teaching qualification) in secondary education, if you answered ‘yes’, we are looking for people like you to join our highly successful team at Studio School & Sixth.

If you wish to learn more about the school and this post, please get in touch via: perry.d@wss.merciantrust.org