Head of Drama
Kesgrave High School
Suffolk
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR/UPR plus TLRC2 - £8279
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 24 February 2025
Job overview
Kesgrave High School – Ipswich, Suffolk IP5 2PB
Head of Drama
MPR/UPR plus TLRC2 - £8279
Full Time
Permanent
Reference: 7006
Required to start September 2025
Kesgrave High School is seeking to appoint an inspiring teacher and leader to lead the Drama Department from September 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to join a successful and committed team of subject specialists. As well as Drama specialists the department collaborates closely with staff in English, Music and Dance, on both teaching and extra-curricular projects.
Kesgrave High School is a large 11-19 school which has over 1850 students on roll, including over 320 students in the Sixth Form. The Drama department has a great sense of team spirit, support and collaboration and are dedicated to ensuring our students achieve the highest possible outcomes. The department has an impressive range of facilities, including well-resourced teaching rooms, studios and performance spaces.
The Thomas Theatre is also used by the department for both teaching and productions, which is a performance space with state-of-the-art sound and lighting facilities that can seat an audience of over 300. We also have the benefit of full reprographic and administrative support.
The department has an impressive range of facilities, including well-resourced teaching rooms and resource areas. We also have the benefit of full reprographic and administrative support.
This an exciting time to join the school securing the best possible outcomes for our young people in a nurturing, supportive environment. We have a disruption-free learning approach to behaviour; leaders are highly visible and supportive so that teachers can teach highly effective lessons.
Staff benefit from excellent conditions of service, and we are committed to personalised CPD and career opportunities both within school and across our Trust.
Kesgrave is part of East Anglian Schools Trust (EAST) alongside Farlingaye High School, Bungay High School and Castle EAST School.
For more information
To find out more about us, please visit our website
(www.kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk).
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged, to arrange this please email hr@kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk.
How to apply
To apply, please visit our vacancies
page (www.kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk/join-us/staff-vacancies).
Alternatively, you can contact the school by calling 01473 624855 to request an application form.
Completed application forms and covering letters are to be returned via email to hr@kesgrave.suffolk.sch.uk.
Closing date: 9am, 24 February 2025.
Interview date: Week commencing 24 February 2025.
Attached documents
About Kesgrave High School
- Kesgrave High School
- Main Road, Kesgrave, Ipswich
- Suffolk
- IP5 2PB
- United Kingdom
About Kesgrave High School
We are proud of staff and students at Kesgrave High School and we expect them to take a pride in all that they do. We have a strong pastoral system, high academic standards and clear and fair behaviour expectations. Our experience tells us that children thrive in an environment that sets firm boundaries, is consistent in its expectations and which builds relationships that set the tone for learning
We provide an environment in which our students feel safe and are encouraged to grow, often challenging their own expectations. Our positive, inclusive approach ensures that students make the most of their talents and potential. We are lucky to have a school environment which befits these expectations, investing in their futures through the latest technology and facilities.
We encourage students to take responsibility, to be curious and to have a thirst for knowledge. Students learn from each other, as well as from their experienced and skilled teachers, in a supportive learning environment where everyone is valued.
Relationships within and beyond the classroom are positive and help us to secure the best possible outcomes for our young people. Teachers, associate staff, parents and carers all work together to help our young people to progress.
Our Culture and Ethos
Kesgrave High School is proud to be 'more than just a school'. Our ethos is at the heart of everything we do:
'Be Positive, Be Respectful, Be Your Best'.
- We have an ethos of purposeful learning with a sense of adventure and challenge, where students and staff are empowered to experiment and develop exciting learning opportunities.
- Our practice and development is rooted in evidence-based research.
- Class sizes are kept as low as possible. On average, a KS4 class has 22 students and at KS5 12 students.
- Our three period day means that staff and students have a break after every lesson to ensure smooth transitions between lessons and a calm purposeful learning environment.
- All departments have access to a designated curriculum administrator who helps drive improvements and reduce workload for teaching staff enabling them to focus on their core activities.
- Team rooms for all departments help build supportive, collaborative relationships and facilitate shared planning time.
- The majority of meetings are dedicated to Teaching and Learning.
- Departmental development is focussed on clear and manageable priorities rooting our work in the cornerstones of the best classroom practice.
- Lesson observations are for the purpose of teacher development and sharing of best practice. We discuss how to get better.
- There is no prescribed template for lesson planning. Our Teaching and Learning Principles focus on Subject Knowledge, Challenge, Modelling, Review and Retrieval, Questioning, Feedback and Oracy.
Headteacher
Julia Upton
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