Head of Music

Do you want to work in a school that values the arts and provides excellent professional development opportunities?

Music is a successful department at The Compton School and is taught at both KS3 and KS4. At The Compton, the Arts are really valued, and earlier this academic year The Compton was awarded the Artsmark Platinum Award to recognise the school's excellent provision and continued commitment to delivering a high-quality arts and cultural education for all. Music is taught throughout KS3 rather than on a carousel basis. The two music rooms and six practice rooms are housed within our purpose built arts block. Students work in a purposeful atmosphere and achieve excellent results. The department runs a rich extracurricular programme, often in collaboration with the other arts departments, which includes concerts, festivals, whole school musicals and trips, as well as weekly clubs and ensembles. The previous Head of Music was in post for 17 years, so this is a rare and exciting opportunity for an ambitious Head of Music to build on the strong foundations that have been laid, whilst also bringing their own stamp and perspective.

Why work at The Compton School?

• You will be joining a highly successful school with a national profile of excellence in teaching and learning, classroom behaviour, teacher training and student outcomes
• The Music department at The Compton School is staffed with subject specialists, who use a collaboratively planned curriculum to deliver lessons of outstanding quality to our students everyday
• We will provide you with exceptional training through our induction programme and a bespoke programme depending on your career experience. Delivered on site, colleagues can access bespoke Music CPD, generic nationally accredited teaching pedagogy courses and all the NPQs that we deliver as a strategic Teaching School Partner School
• We believe in developing our teaching staff to be outstanding classroom teachers and school leaders of the future – if you have ambition to progress your career, we are the school for you.

Who are we?

We are a massively oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had four outstanding OFSTED inspections in succession, most recently in January 2018. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely put the school within the top 5% of schools nationally for progress.

At The Compton, we understand that our brilliant teachers make a difference to the life chances of our students every day by helping them to secure outstanding outcomes. We always strive to appoint the very best teachers and once in post we provide a workplace environment that ensures their needs are fully met now and in the future. Many of our policies actively seek to reduce teacher workload, for example, we have smaller class sizes, reduced teacher timetable loading and 6 INSET days a year.

Are you the right person to join our team? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.

To apply for this vacancy, please visit our recruitment website: Head of Music at The Compton School | MyNewTerm

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.