Head of Drama - Maternity Cover
Ashford Senior School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary according to experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- 1 June 2017
- Apply by:
- 21 March 2017
Job overview
Head of Drama
Required from June 2017 to cover Maternity Leave
Full time / Competitive salary
We have a superb opportunity for an exceptionally creative Head of Drama to lead our thriving Drama Department in our award winning school.
As Head of Drama you will be expected to lead the teaching and development of the Drama curriculum and to provide regular and frequent opportunities for performance to all pupils in the Senior School; our pupils perform regularly in many regional festivals and have recently performed in consecutive years at the Edinburgh Fringe.
At Ashford School, we believe Drama provides a vehicle for creativity, spirituality and adventure for our pupils. Our expectation is that all pupils will participate frequently and regularly in performances in lessons and outside. If you share this belief, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Ashford School is part of United Learning, one of the leading school groups in the country. This enables us to offer you unrivalled career development opportunities and support to ensure you achieve your ambitions.
Closing date Tuesday 21 March at 12 noon
Interviews w/c 27 March 2017
Ashford School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the DBS.
Ashford School is a member of United Learning Registered Charity No. 1016358
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About Ashford Senior School
Ashford School is one of the UK's leading coeducational independent day and boarding school, founded in 1898, and voted Independent School of the Year 2010/2011. The school was endorsed as outstandingly successful in every category during the most recent inspection in 2014. In September 2014, Ashford School became a Teaching School; only one of four Independent Schools in the UK to do so. There are 850 pupils, comprising Bridge Nursery in Ashford, looking after children of 3 months to three years old; Ashford Prep School in the rural village of Great Chart, a preparatory school for children between 3 and 11, and Ashford School, a senior school for girls and boys aged 11 to 18, occupying a prominent 25+ acre site close to the centre of Ashford and within a short walk of the International Station. There are good rail, road and bus links to Ashford and London (37 minutes) and the school operates its own bus services to outlying villages.
Teachers at Ashford enjoy a welcoming, comfortable and well-resourced environment and are provided with assistance from a range of support staff. All teachers act as tutors and are expected to contribute to the co-curricular life of the school. Responding to the needs of the individual student - be it preparing for examinations in after-school classes or guiding the most able through Olympiad problems - is at the heart of the department and School ethos.
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