Head of Music
Alperton Community School
Brent
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS (£28,098 - £37,866) (UPS (£43,184 - £46,829 Inner London plus TLR 2B, £4,691
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 19 March 2017
Job overview
Thank you for taking the time to find out about Alperton Community School. Alperton Community School is an exceptional school.
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 300 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we will expand our roll from 8 to 10 form entry in September 2017. Alperton Community School is proud to be an inclusive comprehensive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Alperton is a popular shopping destination specialising in Asian food, fashion, music and is renowned for its cultural diversity and the remarkable Shri Sanatan Hindu Temple.
Our most recent Ofsted rating in July 2016 recognised the school as Good with outstanding leadership and management.
The school achieved its best ever set of GCSE results in 2016. The percentage of students achieving 5A*-C grades at GCSE has increased by 22% over the last three years and now stands at 66%. The school is ranked in the top 4% of schools nationally for student progress at GCSE (Progress 8), and ranked in the top 1% for maths and the top 9% for English. Attainment is above national and Brent averages. Student progress at A Level is in the top 10% of schools nationally (ALPS). We are very fortunate to have opened a new school building in January 2017. The new building has purpose-built specialist Drama, Music, Art and DT facilities, as well as 14 Science laboratories, 10 ICT rooms and a new MUGA.
The Role Head of Music
We are looking to appoint an outstanding practitioner and talented leader who has the vision and determination to lead our Music department to achieve outstanding outcomes for all our students. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to lead the Music department in our new school.
The Person The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher of Music. You will have high expectations of your students and have an innovative approach to curriculum ideas, supporting all pupils gaining a Music qualification. This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. We are committed to continuous professional development and if you wish to develop your career in a vibrant school, we would welcome your application.
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About Alperton Community School
Alperton Community School is a mixed, mainstream secondary school for 11- to 18-year-old students. Located in Wembley, north-west London, it has 1,362 students enrolled.
Alperton Community School was founded in 1922 as Wembley County Grammar School. In 1967, three different schools were combined to form Alperton High School. Then, in the 1990s, the school took control of its own finances through the Local Management of Schools legislation and reopened as Alperton Community School.
Headteacher
Gerard McKenna
Vision and values
Alperton Community School aims to provide an inclusive education that ensures every student reaches their full potential. Teachers want to help each pupil develop academically, physically, socially, morally and spiritually. The school works to mould students into responsible and active citizens. It has specialist status in maths and computing.
The secondary school emphasises the core subjects, but also offers important vocational courses such as business, computing, design and technology, ICT, and health and social care. Alperton has been awarded the Sportsmark for excellence in curriculum provision in PE and has won national competitions in sport and music. Its well-rounded educational offering has enabled many pupils to go to university at Oxford, Cambridge and medical establishments.
Ofsted report
“Quality teaching and learning is at the heart of leaders’ planning and has resulted in a very high degree of consistency in teachers’ use of the assessment system to support pupils’ progress. In the best examples, teachers identify pupils’ needs while planning activities that build upon pupils’ prior learning and rapidly develop it.”
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