Head of Music
The Peterborough School
Peterborough
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 25 February 2022
Job overview
The Peterborough School is an independent day school for boys and girls from Nursery to Sixth Form.
A Woodard School and Society of Heads School
Head of Music
Required for September 2022
This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding teacher to lead our highly successful and dynamic Music Department and to contribute to the thriving musical tradition within our School. The successful candidate will be an excellent practitioner with a proven record of high outcomes for pupils within curricular and co-curricular music. The appointed person will be expected to enhance the high standards of music tuition and musical activity on offer at The Peterborough School.
Music is a key strength of the School, with a wide range of opportunities for individual and ensemble performance, with an Orchestra, Chapel Choir, and numerous other groups and bands. We pride ourselves on the quality of our music teaching. Lessons are available on all orchestral instruments, with over 100 individual lessons offered weekly.
The Department has an excellent academic record at GCSE and A Level. Pupils sit Associated Board and Trinity Guildhall examinations each term with the majority achieving merits or distinctions.
The School has a strong Christian foundation, and we are fortunate to have a Chapel to use for our concerts and events. A significant part of The Peterborough School music programme involves pupils participating in a number of public events in Cathedrals and other venues both locally and nationally.
The Music Department enjoys the use of a number of practice rooms and a classroom containing a full suite of computers equipped with the latest Sibelius software for use in composition and harmony classes.
We offer a competitive remuneration package in a welcoming, friendly environment within a beautiful setting.
The Peterborough School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
More details and an application form are available from the ‘Contact Us’ section of our website www.thepeterboroughschool.co.uk
Closing date: Friday 25 February 2022
Interviews: To be arranged
The Peterborough School
Thorpe Road
Peterborough
PE3 6AP
Email: hr@tpsch.co.uk
Tel: 01733 343357
Attached documents
About The Peterborough School
The Peterborough School is an independent, co-educational, Church of England school for children aged 4-18. There are 440 pupils and it is situated in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. There is also The Peterborough School Nursery, which is Ofsted “outstanding”.
The Peterborough School is part of the Woodard group of schools, the largest collection of Church of England schools in England and Wales. Peterborough High School was founded in 1875 as girls' day school. In 2010, the school became fully co-educational and changed its name to The Peterborough School.
Headmaster
Mr A D Meadows
Values and vision
The school’s aim is to unlock the potential of each and every child, from preparatory age through to sixth form. The school endeavours to develop and nurture each individual so that they achieve academic excellence, confidence, creativity, and spiritual and moral values. The school supports the tenets of the Woodard Corporation. It welcomes children of all faiths and no faith at all, and offers an experience of Anglican worship.
ISI report
“The Peterborough School is very successful in meeting its principal aims. This is apparent in the pupils’ good academic achievement and in their successes in a range of sporting and creative activities, in their contribution to the community and in their excellent personal development. Pupils make good progress and benefit from the good teaching they receive, which enables them to achieve good results at GCSE and A level.”
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