Head of Music

Head of Music

Newstead Wood School

For September 2023

We are seeking to appoint a passionate and enthusiastic musician to lead our Music Department.

All students study music at KS3 with many opting to take GCSE at KS4. The successful candidate will play a key role in the promotion and performance of music across the school. We hold numerous events each year including our Performing Arts Festival, based on musical theatre performances, and this summer we stage our inaugural 'A Night at the Musicals' event. Our Orchestra, Folk Group, Jazz Band and other ensembles perform regularly.

We work closely with BYMT and have a number of peripatetic teachers who work with us on a weekly basis. Our new music block was erected last summer and our Main Hall stage area is benefitting from a complete refurbishment of AV equipment this summer.

We are proud to have flexible working embedded into our culture and are willing to discuss particular requirements with applicants as required. Equally, if you have a slightly different range of subject disciplines to offer, please do let us know.

You will be able to demonstrate the professional and personal qualities necessary to consistently inspire our highly motivated and very capable students.

The successful candidate will:

• Be an outstanding, organised and committed teacher
• Have a great understanding of their subject specialism and progression routes
• Be able to stimulate and engage students
• Be creative, determined and enthusiastic

Please see further information on our website.

About Us

Newstead Wood School is a highly selective girls’ state secondary school, with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is heavily over-subscribed. Students here achieve the highest academic standards whilst also benefitting from exceptional pastoral care. Our school badge, with its symbol of the acorn and the motto Fortitudine Crescamus, meaning ‘may we grow in strength’, symbolises the idea of growth, both for the school and for the individual.

We are a diverse and inclusive school with a wide catchment area. We pride ourselves on an excellent range of extracurricular opportunities to complement our academic courses. The vast majority of our students' progress to Russell Group Universities at the end of our Sixth Form. We are exceptionally proud of our students. They are bright and happy young people who enjoy being at school, each bringing unique talents to our community. Newstead students have freedom and security to be themselves, and many opportunities to follow their interests and aspirations. We know them as individuals and support them to grow as thinking young people and active citizens, ready to take positions of responsibility and leadership on leaving school.

Our lessons move at a fast pace and students are routinely challenged in their thinking.

Newstead Wood is situated in Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley and there are excellent rail links to both London Bridge and Victoria Stations.

Part of United Learning

Newstead Wood School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

To find out more about working in our Trust, click here.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

ECT's benefit form a starting salary of £30,000 and all other pay points are above the national pay scales. ECT's benefit from a Summer start if possible.

Applicants are encouraged to apply promptly, as we may call candidates for interview at any time and close the advert early.

Closing Date for Applications - Tuesday 30th May 2023

If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete the on-line application form or contact us by e-mail for further information: recruitment@newsteadwood.co.uk

Newstead Wood School is an equal opportunities employer and requires enhanced DBS clearance as part of its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We particularly welcome applications from BAME candidates as they are currently under-represented at our school. We recognise the vital contribution that members of a diverse team make to our students learning. The range of cultural experiences, differing viewpoints and role models this brings is essential in our school and we recognise the hole that would be left in our students education without you!