Drama Teacher (with opportunities for teaching English or Film Studies for suitable candidates)
Woodrush High School
Wythall, Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 21 May 2024
Job overview
Teacher of Drama
To Start: September 2024
Contract: Permanent, full time
We are seeking to appoint for a practitioner who is passionate about their subject to join our CARTS faculty. Woodrush is an extremely popular, oversubscribed academy on the border of South Birmingham. We welcome applications from ECTs and those with more experience, who would like to work within a school where the wellbeing and progress of both students and staff are at the heart of everything we do. The successful candidate will bring Drama to life, helping all students to make excellent personal progress.
The role will include:
• Teaching KS3, KS4
• Pastoral duties as a Form Tutor
• Planning and delivering well-structured sequences of lessons, aligned with the curriculum to ensure all students make at least good progress
• Taking an active role in the department
We can offer you:
• An opportunity to work in an extremely popular Secondary Academy with an excellent reputation both locally and regionally.
• Extensive CPDL programme for all staff at every stage in their career
• Opportunities to work across our alliance of schools and work towards Specialist Leader of Education status.
• Subsidised on-site gym membership
• On site café and Library
Interested candidates are welcome to come and look around the school by prior appointment. To book an appointment please contact Laura McCleary, Lead HR Administrator on 01564 823777 or email her at hr@woodrush.org.
Closing date midnight Tuesday 21st May 2024. Interviews to take place Friday 24th May 2024.
Woodrush High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted staff will be subject to additional online searches.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluently and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
Attached documents
About Woodrush High School
- Woodrush High School
- Shawhurst Lane, Hollywood, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B47 5JW
- United Kingdom
Woodrush High School is a mainstream, non-denominational, secondary academy for girls and boys aged 11-18. It is situated Wythall, Worcestershire, near the city of Birmingham.
Our recent Ofsted inspection, December 2018, categorised Woodrush as a ‘Good’ school with ‘Outstanding’ Leadership & Management and Personal Development, Behaviour & Welfare. It is a Teaching School and a recognised National Support School.
Headteacher
Mr J Barber
Values and vision
Woodrush High School believes learning is lifelong. It offers a calm, supportive and disciplined environment in which children can learn. Teachers believe students can always improve and must always strive to do so.
The secondary school respects individuals and believes in equality of opportunity for all. It is focused on doing everything it can to improve students’ chances in life and prides itself on being a big team that includes pupils, staff and parents. It embraces its community and its role in the local area.
Woodrush High School focuses on strong academic performance, but also puts emphasis on students learning life skills and taking part in extra-curricular activities, which range from the Duke of Edinburgh Award to the arts, music and sport.
'Morale at the school is exceptionally high. Teachers are proud to work at the school, they are fully engaged in leaders’ improvement drive and all share a common goal, namely, to make their school the best it can be.’ Ofsted 2018
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