Performing Arts Assistant
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £25k per annum, pro rata
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 28 June 2017
Job overview
Contact: 1 year Fixed Term Contract with a view to becoming permanent - Term Time plus 5 days
Hours: 27.5 hours per week (12.30pm to 6pm)
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive, creative and energetic Performing Arts enthusiast to play a key role supporting the delivery of an impressive co-curricular Music and Drama programme at our successful, friendly and academic school based in the heart of Wimbledon.
Working particularly closely with our Key Stage 3 girls, successful candidate will have experience in performance – both musical and drama, and ideally, a familiarity with working with young people.
A willingness to engage closely with our students, develop their talents and interests and encourage them in their efforts is a prerequisite of this role, as is a willingness to get involved in all the opportunities which present themselves and indeed, a desire to come up with some ideas and projects independently.
This role might suit someone who is interested in pursuing either a career in the performance arts or in teaching the performance arts.
Performing Arts at Wimbledon High School
The Performing Arts are thriving at the School, featured within the School’s Rutherford Centre for the Performing Arts: a fully functioning theatre with professional lighting and sound.
Music making is at the heart of Wimbledon High School life, with music being heard regularly across the School. Students are high-performing and academic results are excellent.
The School is also bursting with dramatic opportunities with a number of large-scale musicals and plays to be involved in.
If you are interested in this opportunity, we also offer a competitive salary and benefits package, excellent facilities and a friendly and supportive working environment.
Further details of the position and the application form are available by clicking the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am on Thursday 29 June 2017 and interviews will be held thereafter.
The School reserves the right to commence the interview process at any time prior to the closing date so early application is recommended.
Wimbledon High School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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