Head of Music
Claires Court Schools
Windsor and Maidenhead
- Expired
- Salary:
- TBC
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 13 March 2017
Job overview
We are seeking an innovative, creative and highly motivated Head of Music to lead our thriving Music Department on our College Avenue site, where our Girls and Sixth Form are based. With a range of popular extra-curricular enrichment activities, strong GCSE results and inspiring members of staff, Music is a key curriculum area within the School. The ideal candidate will lead and develop this flourishing department, bringing real energy and dynamism to the role with a genuine love for the subject.
Recent investments in the site include the Music school with 2 teaching rooms/studios and connected practice/rehearsal spaces and main school hall with excellent acoustic amplification, including fully equipped stage and a 24 channel digital audio mixer. You will be working within a department of supportive & knowledgeable colleagues including an experienced teacher of Music Technology, together with specialist support teachers & instructors for junior, secondary and Sixth Form.
You’ll be committed to raising standards at all levels, delivering excellent lessons and enthusing pupils through your passion for the subject. The successful candidate’s core focus will be in the teaching of Music to the secondary age range, with the opportunity to teach across Key Stage 2. This is a full-time post, required from September 2017.
To be successful in this role, you must be:-
- Suitably qualified with QTS obtained in the appropriate age range
- An excellent musician, with the ability to enthuse, encourage and inspire others into a love for performing
- Experienced in teaching Music through KS3 to KS5 is essential and at KS2 desirable
- Knowledge of the subject specifications and procedures of appropriate exam boards in both music and music technology at KS4 and KS5
- Experienced in exploring and using music technology within the KS3 to KS5 classroom
- Passionate in using your knowledge of theory, innovation and practice in teaching and learning to provide highly effective curriculum delivery
- An enthusiastic team player, willing to participate fully in the School’s extra-curricular programme and wider school life
- Engaged with the School's ethos, thinking creatively and reflectively within an open, honest and hardworking team
Above all you need to like children, to want the very best for them and be prepared to put their needs first. You recognise the importance of educating the whole child – including all learners – and achieving high standards, within a creative, broad and innovative curriculum.
In return we offer a positive working environment, with supportive colleagues and regular opportunities for professional development and training.
This role will incorporate subject responsibility; therefore we are unable to accept applications from NQTs.
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About Claires Court Schools
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Claires Court Schools are proprietarily owned and operated by Hugh and James Wilding. For those who like their historical facts, Claires Court first opened its doors as a preparatory school in September 1960 led by David and Josephine Wilding – parents of the current owners. In those days Claires Court was a boarding school and Ridgeway one of the boarding houses.
As the demand for boarding reduced, the School gradually moved to a day school to 13 years of age, extending over the years to add GCSE and thus a leaving age of 16.
In 1993 College came under the Claires Court umbrella adding co-ed Nursery provision and in 1994 the co-ed Sixth Form started with 19 boys and 1 girl!
Here therefore was the birth of our unique education – the statutory school years of education with boys and girls separate but meeting for extra curricular activities, the performing arts, departmental trips and so on.
Our achievements are many and varied – never assume that academic excellence is sufficient for our pupils – we want them to experience and achieve so much more and because of this, we offer an absolute fountain of opportunity to ensure that our boys and girls emerge into the world of work or university as well balanced individuals able to move forward in confidence and with competence.
Co-ordinated education for girls and boys from 2 to 18 years
Co-ordinated education means that boys and girls are educated separately but meet together with such activities as sailing, rowing, performing arts as well as day trips and field study courses – the best of both worlds!
Our Nursery and Sixth Form are co-ed whilst the 4 to 16 year olds are educated separately.
We achieve outstanding results at all levels throughout the School with an intake that is non-selective – entry is by report from previous school and interview with the Head.
We aim to educate the whole child, treating each boy or girl as an individual and ensuring they achieve their maximum potential – sometimes far beyond what they believed they were capable of achieving.
Not only are our results excellent, we offer a school day that is brimming with opportunity and variety – both inside the classroom and out.
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