Artist in Residence
Gordon's School
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Use of School's art facilities and reasonable art supplies plus free lunch is available during term time
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 7 July 2022
Job overview
Hours
A minimum of 15 hours per week working in the studio space during term time to include some Saturdays and evenings and three one- to-one sessions per week with the Art Scholar
Salary
This is an unpaid role, however, the co-curricular art sessions will be paid £20 per hour and additional paid work may be available. Use of the school’s art facilities and reasonable art supplies plus free lunch is available during term time
The Artist in Residence is a new role. We currently have two well equipped art studios and primarily focus on drawing, painting and photography. The school facilities will be at the disposal of the successful candidate, although they will need to provide their own specialist materials. We have two full time Art teachers and two part time Technicians.
Main Purpose of the Job
To assist the Art department in providing a lively, stimulating and supportive environment for our Art students. Helping to tutor and encourage students to investigate and research ideas within a structured programme of teaching.
To mentor the Art Scholar giving them advice on how to improve and further advance their art work and pursue a career within Art.
The Artist in Residence will be committed to both their own practice and the development of students at Gordon’s and will maintain a strong presence in the Art department.
Gordon’s School is a State Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment – applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate screening including a DBS check.
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About Gordon's School
Gordon’s is a non-selective, co-ed, 11-18 school of circa 1000 students. Unusually for a state school it offers residential boarding facilities to 280 students. Founded in 1885, its historical links with General Charles Gordon have shaped the ethos and sense of tradition that is present within the school today.
Gordon’s places a strong emphasis on standards, academic success and high expectations. Great importance is placed on the quality of teaching in the classroom because of the belief that schools are first and foremost centres for learning.
In the sixth form there are over 350 students taking BTEC and A Level courses. There are five residential boarding houses and six day boarding houses for students. This allows for a high level of care and individual support, excellent staff/student relationships, backed by a structured learning and teaching environment, with high standards of courtesy and self-discipline.
In the school there is a wide variety of sporting and co-curricular activities. Daily over forty clubs offer a range from traditional games, rock-climbing and horse riding to tap dancing, music and drama. The Combined Cadet Force and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme are particularly popular and successful. One unusual feature is the marching Pipes and Drums band, which plays at ceremonial occasions at school and for outside events, when the students wear their ‘blues’ - a form of military uniform featuring the Gordon’s tartan.
School facilities are excellent and include over fifty acres of playing fields, a state-of-the art fitness centre, sports hub including all-weather pitches and coffee shop, and refurbished music and drama block.
The school is situated in fifty acres of Surrey parkland a few miles from the M25, M3 and M4 motorways. Day boarders come mainly from the local villages of West End, Chobham and Lightwater. Residential boarders come for all parts of the United Kingdom and around ten percent from overseas.
The Ofsted Inspection of November 2014 reported, “Gordon’s is an outstanding school in every respect”. Ofsted inspected 27 areas, 26 of which were given grade 1. In particular: -
“Teaching and learning are outstanding”
“The curriculum provision is outstanding”
“Standards are outstandingly high in national tests and GCSE”
“The effectiveness and efficiency of the boarding is outstanding”
“The quality of care provided by the school for the pupils is exceptional”
“Leadership and management are outstanding”
All of this is a tremendous testimony to the hard work and commitment of both students and staff – and is part of the reason why Gordon’s is the most over-subscribed state school in Surrey with over five applications for every place.
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