Peripatetic Vocal Teacher & Choir Leader
The Queen's School
Cheshire West and Chester
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 4 June 2023
Job overview
Peripatetic Lower School Singing Teacher and Choir Leader
(to commence September 2023)
The Post
The Queen’s School Music Department is vibrant, happy and successful and it is a place where the importance of music peripatetic provision has long been acknowledged.
This is a new and exciting job opportunity for an enthusiastic vocal teacher to deliver singing lessons to our pupils at the lower school.
This post holder will lead and be responsible for two of the school choirs, and will rehearse and plan repertoire for the weekly rehearsals , preparing the choirs for events in and outside of school.
The Queen’s School hosts a variety of concerts in lower school and in the Chester Cathedral. The choirs also compete in the Chester Music Festival and participate in the annual music and drama productions in the spring and summer term.
The Music Department
Staffing
There are two full time members of the department who work in the lower and the senior school. A team of approx. 13 peripatetic staff deliver instrumental lessons – some peripatetic staff work in both the junior and senior sections of the school. We also have a part time music technician at the senior school.
Departmental Structure
The Head of Music oversees music provision and the post holder.
Accommodation and Equipment
The junior school has 1 music practice room with a piano and there is a classroom with an electric piano. The hall has a grand piano for concerts and shows.
Salary
Peripatetic staff at The Queen’s School are self-employed and the contract for lessons is between the pupil and the teacher.
Instrumental and vocal lessons are given on a weekly basis. Fees are payable at the start of each term in advance.
Interview and Appointment
- Please notify the school if you have any disability for which special arrangements need to be made for either the interview or if the position is offered.
- Candidates should be aware that the appointment will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
- Successful candidates will also be asked to confirm that they are medically fit to carry out the duties associated with this post.
- Employers have a legal duty to verify that new employees are eligible to work in this country, under the Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. Therefore, the successful candidate will be asked to produce their passport and/or visa before commencing work.
- It is also our policy to ask to see original certificate(s) of qualification(s) upon acceptance of the post. A photocopy will be retained for our records in both cases.
General
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Application
The application form and a letter of application, which should be no more than one side of A4, should be emailed to recruitment@thequeensschool.co.uk by midnight on Sunday 4th June.
Interviews will be held the week commencing 12th June. If you have not heard from us by 16th June, please assume that your application has not been successful in this instance.
It is The Queen’s School policy that feedback will not be given following application. Please note that applications will only be considered on the school’s application form.
For further information, please visit our website www.thequeensschool.co.uk before you come to the School.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children. Child safety recruitment procedures operate and the post is subject to references and an Enhanced DBS disclosure. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age
Attached documents
About The Queen's School
Welcome to Queen’s
The Queen’s School is a leading selective GSA Independent day school providing education for around 450 girls between the ages of 4 and 18 years.
The school is highly successful, with a strong and consistent emphasis on the needs of individual pupils that focuses on enabling pupils to challenge, question and develop. The Queen’s school is well known for its excellent pastoral care, which is a hallmark of its community and underpins the academic focus that characterises the school. The vast majority of our pupils go on to attend their first choice university, including medical and Oxbridge places, and leave the school as confident, articulate and well balanced young women.
The school is situated close to the centre of the thriving, historic city of Chester and a few minutes cycle ride or drive from the unspoiled countryside of Cheshire, Wirral and North Wales. Manchester and Liverpool are within easy reach, and London is 2.5 hours away via train.
The ISI awarded the school the highest standard of “excellent” in all categories in its most recent inspection.
The History of the School
The Queen’s School was founded in 1878. The school's pupils achieved considerable distinction from the outset. Of the sixteen girls who joined The Queen's School on its opening day in 1878, two would go on to win places at Cambridge - the first of many in a long and honourable tradition.
The school would subsequently provide Chester with its first female solicitor, its first lady mayor, the first woman to receive the Freedom of the City, the first woman president of the Freemen and Guilds in over 800 years and the first female cathedral provost in Church of England history.
The School buildings were erected with the financial assistance of several leading Chester families, on land on the Chester City Walls provided by the Duke of Westminster. This site still exists today as the main part of the Senior School. Further buildings have been constructed or acquired so that the school now inhabits a mixture of Georgian and Victorian buildings as well as more modern ones. The Queen’s Lower School was originally based in two large Victorian houses on Liverpool Road, Chester. It still occupies this site but has expanded in recent years.
Although much has changed since The Queen’s School was founded, our values-driven approach to education has remained the same and the school’s motto of “Honour Wisdom” still rings true and resonantly today.
Working at Queen’s
The Queen’s School has an outstanding reputation for staff and pupil welfare and staff career progression is important. Continuous professional development opportunities are offered, as is specific support for Early Career Teachers as part if the ECF. The school is a member of the Girls’ Schools Association network of schools, enabling access to a wealth of support, information and training.
Teachers at The Queen’s School are ambitious for themselves and for the school, but mainly for their pupils, getting to know them as individuals to set challenging but achievable targets. Across all year groups, there is an expectation of excellent results. At the Senior School, this includes the preparation of students for entry to highly competitive courses, including Oxbridge.
The Queen’s School invests proactively in technology to support teaching and learning, and an extensive and well-populated Virtual Learning Environment is well used by all pupils and staff at both the Lower and Senior Schools. All pupils in the Senior School have individual iPads and all teachers (Lower and Senior Schools) are provided with individual iPads to enhance their practice.
All members of staff are expected to contribute to the school's extracurricular programme, which mainly operates at lunchtimes and after school, and to support the marketing and admissions departments when necessary.
The Queen's School participates in a pension scheme with Legal and General and the Government Childcare Voucher scheme, offers discounted school lunches, reimburses parking costs for staff and offers a pro rata 50% fee reduction for staff members who would like their daughter/s to attend the school.
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