Peripatetic Oboe and Recorder Teacher
Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- January 2019
- Apply by:
- 16 November 2018
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding Peripatetic Oboe and Recorder Teacher to join a thriving Music Department within a highly-successful girls’ school.
The successful candidate will be comfortable teaching students from Year 3 to Year 13 and will be interested in developing the role within the wider Music Department. They will be able to teach both the Oboe and Recorder and will lead our specialist Wind Ensemble, Taffelmusik.
The post holder will be engaged on a self-employed basis and will be expected to be available for at least a full day per week, term time only. They will be responsible for creating their own timetable to ensure weekly lessons of 35-minutes are taught to their pupils. The role is estimated to involve a full day of teaching, with the option of extending this to a further half day if required. Candidates will ideally be on the DBS Update Service.
Wimbledon High School is a highly-successful girls’ school situated within a few minutes of Wimbledon Station. Music making is at the heart of 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% Grade 9 or 8 at GCSE and 100% A*-B at A Level in 2018. 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 2017/18.
Further details of the position and the application form are available by clicking the apply button.
Completed application forms and a cover letter addressed to the Director of Music, Mr Richard Bristow, should be emailed to Human Resources at hr@wim.gdst.net
The closing date is 9am on 16 November 2018.
Interviews will be held on Friday 23 November 2018.
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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