Director of Music
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 7 February 2022
Job overview
This is a rare opportunity to play a pivotal role leading the musical life of one of this country's leading girls' schools.
The Director of Music will be responsible for the leadership and management of the Music Department, ensuring the highest standards of teaching and learning are delivered and leading our large team of peripatetic staff and extensive co-curricular music programme.
This role provides great scope for imagination, innovation and dynamic leadership from the right candidate, and will require creativity, empathy, energy and a sense of adventure, as well as strong leadership potential and empathy.
Music at Wimbledon High School
Music has an essential role to play in allowing our incredible students the scope to be expressive, to challenge themselves to their limits, to have fun and be creative, to work together and to develop the skills to perform under pressure.
Whether it is our annual showcase concerts at venues such as Cadogan Hall and St John’s Smith Square or our informal weekly ‘Friday Jammin’ sessions, there is space for everyone at Wimbledon High School to make music a part of their lives.
Many of our top musicians go on to study music at university (including Oxford and Cambridge) and at conservatoires. The school offers GCSE and A Level Music.
About Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London.
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. We’re incredibly proud of that heritage, and the fact that we are a beacon school of the Girls’ Day School Trust.
As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further information and to apply please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is Monday 7th February 2022 at 9.00am.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 22nd February 2022.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon High School GDST is a popular and academically very successful school.
We are a centre of excellence, demonstrating thought leadership and taking a lead in girls’ education. Our innovative pastoral programme, GROW, is at the core of what we do and what we offer: this is above all a friendly and happy school.
The first school to hold a ‘failure week’ back in 2012, we follow this up every year with initiatives to encourage risk-taking and resilience. The guru of GRIT, Angela Duckworth, visited Wimbledon High in 2016, and Steve Biddulph in 2017. We believe this ethos, together with an expansive co-curricular and partnerships programme, leads to unselfconscious students, comfortable in their own skin and highly active in all areas of school life, with student leaders organising annual Happiness Festivals and Clever Clogs conferences.
Academically, we have truly embraced cross-curricular learning, with two scientists in residence working across Juniors and Seniors to foster STEAM. The skills of problem solving, creativity and collaboration, together with the girls’ experiences of finding their voices and having their say, prepares them for what is likely to be an ever changing work environment and jobs which we cannot yet imagine. Our Year 13 stride out of WHS ready to take on the world and shake it up.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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