Director of Drama
Forest School
E17 3PY
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April/September 2020
- Apply by:
- 27 October 2019
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a talented and inspirational Director of Drama to lead this busy and dynamic department into its next stage of development, retaining and enhancing our reputation for dramatic excellence and exploring new opportunities for Drama within the School, local and national communities. The ideal candidate will have a strong record of delivering academic achievement as well as a strong catalogue of performance opportunities for their pupils.
Forest School is an independent day school with more than 1,360 boys and girls in equal proportion, from 4-18. The School consists of a Preparatory School consists of two sections: The Pre-Prep for pupils aged 4-7 and Prep School which teaches pupils aged 7 -11. The Senior School consists of three sections: Lower School, Year 7 and 8; Middle School, Year 9, 10 and 11; and Sixth Form, Year 12 and 13
The School is located on a beautiful site on the very edge of North-East London, with outstanding facilities and surrounded by ancient Forest.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 30th October 12pm
Interviews: Interviews will take place week beginning the 4th November 2019.
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Appointment to this position requires an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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About Forest School
Forest is an outstanding all-round School, well known for its friendly, welcoming ethos, and full of 1450 bright sparky pupils aged 4-18. We are lucky to be located in this part of North East London, allowing us to attract pupils from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds who share in being academically ambitious, but are grounded, engaging and very loyal to the School. Described by the Good Schools Guide as a ‘powerhouse with a heart’ and enjoying a reputation for strong expert teaching and learning, Forest pupils are encouraged to find success on all fronts through the breadth of the opportunities on offer to them.
We aim to develop the whole pupil through our distinct educational provision which gives equal weight to academic, co-curricular and pastoral strands of school life. To this end, Forest promotes all-round educational excellence, recognising that advancement to higher education or the world of work requires top academic grades but keen to develop a sense of service in the pupils and an awareness of their responsibilities to other people, as well as themselves. Forest is recognised as a school that is always evolving, self-evaluating and planning strategically for its future, while valuing its heritage and its location, all of which makes our community a stimulating one to work in for our 150+ teachers and 100+ non-teaching staff.
For full details about working at Forest School please visit our website www.forest.org.uk
Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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