Lead Teacher of Music
Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
Worcestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MS-UPS plus TLR2b
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/01/2023 or to be negotiated
- Apply by:
- 7 October 2022
Job overview
Lead Teacher of Music
This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to lead a thriving and growing music department.
We are seeking to appoint a passionate, hardworking and ambitious leader to join our popular and oversubscribed Academy. The successful applicant would be expected to be able to model highly effective quality first teaching strategies, drive strategic development of the department and ensure our music department continues to provide an opportunity for all children to achieve.
Department information
The music curriculum offered at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester is inspiring, challenging and fully inclusive; we are supportive, proactive and dedicated to ensuring that every child fulfils their musical potential. Music is a popular subject at our school; we currently have a significant number of students studying GCSE Music (Eduqas), as well a sixth form offering of A Level Music and RockSchool.
We offer an extensive extracurricular programme, including several choirs, bands and an orchestra. Students are given numerous performance opportunities throughout the academic year at regular music concerts, as well as being invited on music tours and trips. We have a team of ten peripatetic teachers who offer a range of instrumental and vocal tuition to our students, and have a variety of instruments we can provide for students who wish to begin these lessons. We are also lucky to have a private benefactor who financially supports music.
Within our new-build school the Music department has dedicated specialist teaching spaces. Each classroom has an i-desk, an integrated sound system and class sets of keyboards and ukuleles, as well as, a selection of percussion instruments. We also have a dedicated Mac suite, plus a further three practice rooms. In addition we have a purpose built recording studio, live room and a 250 seat theatre with Yamaha grand piano.
All schemes of work are fully resourced in centralised electronic folders, with a shared commitment to delivering clear objectives in each half term for each year group. We work collaboratively with the ten other schools within the Tudor Grange Trust to share expertise, resources and opportunities.
Across the broader Performing Arts we work closely with the drama department to produce two shows each year, recent performances include Hairspray, We Will Rock You and Our House. We also run the Arts Award programme between Music, Art and Drama.
General information
We are mixed secondary school of 1200 children aged 11-18, located in Worcester, the happiest city in Britain. We have a comprehensive mix of students whose academic profiles are in line with national averages. 27% of our cohort receive pupil premium funding. We are committed to providing an excellent education for our students. As a result, we are keen to attract the best people for our appreciative learners. Our students are proud of our Academy and are excited to welcome committed teachers to join us. The successful candidate will have a passion for education and making a real difference to the lives of our students. All subject specialisms are welcome to apply.
We are part of a multi academy trust and there are many occasions in which to collaborate and share best practice with colleagues across our twelve Tudor Grange Schools. This provides unparalleled opportunities for career development and professional experiences. We are excited about what we can achieve together and our high quality, state of the art building enables all our students and staff to excel.
What we offer
At Tudor Grange Academy Worcester, excellent teaching and learning is at the heart of all we do. Our staff are our most valued asset, therefore professional development is very important to us. We offer a comprehensive CPD programme to enable you to continuously develop your practice in an over-subscribed school where students fall in love with learning, embrace a growth mindset and are successful.
• Opportunities for individualised self-development
• Unique Continuing Professional Learning within an expanding strong Trust
• Breakfast Boosters and Teach Meets
• A focus on staff well-being ensuring staff maintain a good work-life balance
• A lower-than-average teaching timetable
• Subscription to the Health Assured Programme for staff and their families
• Modern building and welcoming staff and pupils
• Membership of the National College
• Discounted membership at Nuffield Health Fitness and Wellbeing Gym
To find out more about the Academy please go to our website: www.worcs.tgacademy.org.uk.
Our current Lead Teacher of Music here in Worcester is Kate Harper, who also oversees secondary and primary music education for the wider Trust, who can be contacted via kharper@worcs.tgacademy.org.uk if you would like further information or would like to arrange a visit.
Closing Date: Friday, 7th October 2022
Interview:
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments will be subject to receipt of satisfactory Enhanced DBS check, pre-employment checks and a probation period. Please note that if you have not heard from the Academy within 2 weeks after the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful
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About Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
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Tudor Grange Academy has quickly developeded a reputation as a school that is truly in the community. We opened on September 1st 2009 and with the support of the outstanding sponsor school Tudor Grange School, Solihull, we have made great strides forward.
The ethos of the Academy is built around a set of core values:
- Meeting the needs of every student
- Quality in all that we do
- Raising horizons
- Blending tradition and innovation
- The whole is greater than the parts
- Inclusive and collaborative
The Academy provides a broad, balanced, innovative and motivating curriculum, individually tailored to the needs of each student. We are always outward-facing, because learning in the home and the community is as important as learning in the classroom and because we want our students to be active members of their local, national and international communities.
We know that everyone is different & whatever their flair or talent, we prioritise developing their aspirations through new experiences. We dedicate an afternoon a week for most students to pursue new experiences or access the time, people and resources they need to be able to excel in their chosen field through our skills, action and service curriculum.
The students at the Academy are constantly stretched with problem-solving tasks demanding higher-order thinking and new applications of prior learning. Though we feel that the students need to be aware of the individual disciplines of subjects we are careful to organise our curriculum so that they are able to recognise links between their learning and see the relevance of the skills they are developing in real-life contexts.
Central to the Academy is the college structure which has a focus on building a culture of success where achievement is highly valued, celebrated and rewarded. The five college structure allows us to create `schools within the school' so that students really feel that they are a part of their learning community and so that we are alert to and able to respond to the ever-changing needs of every individual in the Academy.
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