Peripatetic Music Teachers
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required from September 2017
- Apply by:
- 20 June 2017
Job overview
The role
This is an exciting opportunity for three outstanding Peripatetic Music Teachers in Piano, Classical Guitar and Flute to join a thriving Music Department within a highly-successful girls’ school situated within a few minutes of Wimbledon Station.
The successful candidates will be comfortable teaching students from Year 3 to Year 13 and will be interested in developing the role of their specialised instrument within the wider Music Department.
The post holders will be engaged on a self-employed basis and will be expected to be available for at least half a day per week, term time only. The successful candidates will be responsible for creating their own timetable to ensure weekly lessons of 35-minutes are taught to their pupils.
Music at Wimbledon High School
Music making is at the heart of Wimbledon High School life, with music being heard regularly across the school.
The Music Department is high-performing with annual tours, CD recordings and concerts in central London venues. The department is academically strong with 100% of all GCSE, AS and A2 grades in 2015 and 2016 at A, or A* grade. Our team of 25 Peripatetic Musicians produce excellent results in termly ABRSM examinations, with 74% of pupils taking ABRSM examinations gaining either a Merit or Distinction grade in 2016/17.
Further details of the position and the application form are available by clicking apply.
Completed applications forms and a cover letter addressed to the Director of Music should be emailed to Human Resources at hr@wim.gdst.net
The closing date is 9am on Wednesday 21 June 2017.
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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