Director of Performing Arts
Swavesey Village College
Swavesey, Cambridge
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2018
- Apply by:
- 25 March 2018
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher of Performing Arts with a Music specialism looking for promotion or a new challenge to really make a difference to young people’s lives?
Swavesey Village College is seeking applications for a Director of Performing Arts from September 2018 with the drive and vision to deliver excellence in our Performing Arts department. A candidate with a clear focus on outstanding outcomes and experiences for students, you will ensure effective teaching and learning is in place in the Performing Arts, and also ensure broad enrichment opportunities that build a rich and vibrant culture of high quality performance and participation.
SVC is an inspirational place to teach, lead and develop personally: We are an outstanding, oversubscribed 11-16 non-selective school with a long track record of delivering successful outcomes for students and an inspiring curriculum and extra-curricular activities which help develop our young people. Our curriculum is rich and our out of lesson offer is particularly strong; this newly created post is advertised with the aim of bringing the departments to work closely together. Also, new for next year, we are offering Dance at GCSE and in KS3 within the curriculum and are currently working towards the ArtsMark Platinum Award.
As part of the growing Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (CMAT), Swavesey won the bid to promote a new secondary school in Northstowe, a new local town within the catchment area of SVC. This new Northstowe school will open in September 2019. In this new role you would also offer your expertise in the development of Performing Arts and Community Arts provision in the new secondary school. We invest strongly in curriculum and Community Arts, and this role would involve line managing our Community Arts Development Manager.
As part of the Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust, all staff have access to excellent opportunities for professional development at all levels, with scope to build a career across a range of schools.
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All staff will be subject to an enhanced check with the DBS.
Closing Date for applications is 9.00am on Monday 26 March. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 28 March.
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About Swavesey Village College
- Swavesey Village College
- Gibraltar Lane, Swavesey, Cambridge
- Cambridgeshire
- CB24 4RS
- United Kingdom
Swavesey Village College was founded in 1958, and has grown in its 63 years from a small village college to a nationally recognised highly performing 11-16 non-selective school with an outstanding academic record and educational experience for its students.
Our most recent Ofsted in February 2020 inspection concluded we are still an Outstanding Provider, confirming the findings in 2011 when they awarded the school outstanding in all 27 categories. The College's GCSE results have been in the top 20% nationally since 2008.
In 2011 the school converted to academy status, as the lead school of the newly-formed Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (CMAT), a trust which has grown since to run several secondary schools across eastern England.
Swavesey is situated close to the A14, about 8 miles north-west of Cambridge – a rural location but not far from the bustle of an internationally renowned city. The school receives children from seven local village primary schools: Over, Swavesey, Bar Hill, Papworth Everard, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton and Elsworth. We have excellent transport links to Cambridge and St Ives, and especially useful is the Guided Busway for those staff who do not drive, with a stop right in the village.
Still true to the vision of Henry Morris, the visionary director of education at the Local Authority in the 1950s, the school also continues to offer educational activities to adults outside of school hours, and is used extensively for leisure activities by the local community.
Headteacher
Mr Jim Stavrou
Values and vision
Swavesey Village College enshrines its ethos in its Values Statement. This statement regards the most important aspects of life at the school to be the “Pursuit of Excellence, Valuing People, Achievement for All, High Quality Learning Environment, and Extending the Boundaries of Learning”. Swavesey works hard to ensure that the needs of every child are met, regardless of background, and sets high standards and targets for its students to strive for.
Ofsted report
The curriculum provides ‘for pupils’ academic and personal development exceptionally well’, and that ‘teachers are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and highly skilled practitioners’. Moreover, they feel we ‘successfully encourage and enthuse pupils to aim high and fulfil their potential’.
We are very proud that the inspection team saw that all ‘leaders promote pupils’ personal development exceptionally well’ and ‘there are a wealth of sporting, cultural and artistic opportunities available for pupils’.
View Swavesey Village College Latest Ofsted Information Here
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