Head of Drama
Stantonbury International School
Milton Keynes
- Expired
- Salary:
- September 2019
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- TLR negotiable
- Apply by:
- 21 May 2019
Job overview
Head of Drama at Stantonbury International School
and Artistic Director of Stantonbury Theatre
TLR negotiable
Stantonbury International School
Milton Keynes
MK14 6BN
Head of School: Michelle Newman
Start Date: September 2019
Stantonbury International School offers an opportunity to an experienced Head of Drama with a successful track record who is ready for a wider role. As well as leading the team of teachers in growing the depth and range of the curriculum offer, particularly in the Sixth Form, the successful candidate will be the Artistic Director of our on-site professional theatre. For a well-networked practitioner, this presents a rare opportunity to produce and direct in that arena as well as raising even further the quality of school performances.
We welcome applications from qualified teachers in the independent, international and state sectors. Bring your past to help forge the next chapter of our future.
Applications by CV and letter to recruitment@stantonbury.org.uk by Wednesday 22nd May 2019. Interviews will be held on Friday 24th May 2019.
The School is an equal opportunities employer committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. All School appointments are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring.
Stantonbury International is a Secondary School based in Milton Keynes with 1,700 students between ages 11-18. We are forging our path to Outstanding based on proud traditions, wide horizons and high achievement with our sponsor, The Griffin Schools Trust.
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About Stantonbury International School
- Stantonbury International School
- Purbeck, Stantonbury, Milton Keynes
- Buckinghamshire
- MK14 6BN
- United Kingdom
Stantonbury Campus was planned in the early 1970s as a bold social project which would see students and adults studying together and enjoying shared use with the community of a leisure centre and professional theatre which were funded by Milton Keynes Council.
It opened in 1974, under the Founding Head, Geoffrey Cooksey.
The school has been through some challenging times during the last decade or so. In 2015 the governors looked for a suitable to Trust to join and chose the Griffin Schools Trust with whom they shared values.
The vision that GST proposed to the governors was (and very much remains) of a school whose flourishing future is connected to its proud past in a number of ways:
· A strong emphasis on the Arts and Sports, using the exceptional facilities to promote excellence as well as enjoyment. We promised to increase access to the Theatre and Sports/Leisure Centre for students which had been limited since council funding ceased some 15 years ago.
· A renewed focus on international links which the campus did so well in its early years, hosting whole school staff teams and making return visits to exchange best practice and innovation in community based education.
· A revived and contemporary approach to science, maths, engineering and technology.
We used and added to the governors’ great work in winning STEM funding to secure £22m for a new building at the heart of the school to house STEM subjects. (SIS is the home of the annual Griffin Science Symposium.)
· A 100% achievement mentality (well advanced in the founding GST schools) which will see every student reaching national norms as a minimum
The full realisation of this vision (further described in in Griffin Great Schools) is a long-term project and a great deal of progress has been made in securing infrastructure, improving the estate and introducing the IB Middle Years Programme as the foundation of the curriculum. The school’s name was accordingly changed to Stantonbury International School in September 2017.
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