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Primary Music/ Drama Teacher

Primary Music/ Drama Teacher

Huili School Nantong

Wellington College China

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Apply by:
2 December 2021

Job overview

Huili Schools form the bilingual arm of Wellington College China and offer a 3 – 18 educational program that combines the Chinese curriculum with the best of the West. Whilst there will be a strong emphasis on academics, Huili Schools also foster the pastoral and holistic aspects of school life to produce well-balanced, rounded, confident individuals who are ready to go out into a globally connected world. This ethos is set out clearly through our core values of kindness, courage, integrity, responsibility, and respect.

We are looking for a specialist, qualified teachers of Music and Drama. Experience in an international settings is welcome as is experience in multi-lingual environments, and in the UK state or private sectors. Most of our pupils are Chinese and we help them on their journey to developing fluency in English as they progress through the school. 


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Teaching and Learning

• Contribute to the holistic wellbeing of all pupils and specifically to those assigned to your individual care

• Undertake class management as a class teacher including discipline, standards of dress, safeguarding and ensuring that students understand and follow the school rules  

• Teach according to departmental schemes of work

• Complete teaching plans on time and to a high standard

• Ensure that lessons are well prepared, efficiently resourced, and appropriate to the ability level of the pupils 

• Participate in planning and departmental meetings

• Regularly assess the students’ work through formative and formal termly / half-termly assessments as directed by your line manager

• Communicate with your Head of Department regarding any student whose progress or behaviour gives cause for concern

• Constantly monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your teaching, maintaining good standards of practice and ensuring progression

• Participate fully in the Staff Appraisal system, with classroom observation of colleagues and a willingness to be personally observed within the classroom. Submit books, records or planning as required for monitoring by colleagues or the Head of Department.  

• Be involved in developing your department including the implementation and monitoring of relevant school policies and the resourcing of the department as appropriate

• Remain mindful of cultural sensitivities

• Develop and share teaching resources

• Assist the Head of Department in areas such as preparing internal exams and schemes of work

• Follow the school’s SEN policy

• Communicate with parents as required, whether in writing, telephone calls or meetings

• Attend Continued Professional Development (CPD) training as required (and, ideally, volunteer to lead CPD sessions occasionally)

• Support the School’s Development Plan generally and in so far as it relates to your subject  

• Attend and participate fully in Staff Development and INSET programmes

• Attend staff meetings and briefings as and when required

• Keep up-to-date with school policy documents and procedures, such as fire evacuation

• Cover lessons as required

• Invigilate exams as required


Home-School communication

• Make parents feel welcome and build a good relationship with them  

• Familiarise the parents with the curriculum

• Collect information on pupils’ interests, aptitudes and growth from parents

• Stimulate pupils’ study by making use of parents’ strengths

• Provide consultations and support to parents’ enquiries

• Share students’ information provided by parents with co-teachers

• Attend Parents’ Meetings as required and provide accurate, honest information regarding their child’s progress

• Report to the parents in the form of regular written reports, and also when additionally required by your Head of Department


Tutoring

• Most staff are expected to be a tutor. This will involve being the child’s ‘parent away from home’. You will be their advocate and their parents’ first line of communication at the school.

• Make sure the register is taken accurately each day

• Inform parents of any upcoming events related to their child that are not in the school calendar

• Help mentor, guide and support the children through their daily school life

• Liaise with the academic, pastoral, medical and special needs teams on behalf of the children in your tutor group

• Conduct weekly tutorial sessions

• Deliver the school’s moral education programme

• Attend pastoral meetings as required

• Write reports on pupils as required (for Interims and Full Reports)

• Assist with writing pupil references

• Track academic performance and raise standards

• Be mindful of the school’s Safeguarding Policy and remain vigilant of the children’s welfare 

• Help pupils achieve a satisfactory work / recreation balance and, if necessary, involve parents

• Attend events such as plays, sporting events, concerts and social events for their year group.


Professional Integrity and wider responsibilities

• Be present in school from 07:45 each morning

• Be positive and build a good relationship with colleagues

• Complete tasks on time

• Provide cover for absent colleagues as and when deemed necessary by your Head of Department

• Play a full role in the weekly co-curricular activities (CCA) programme, which will take place outside of the prescribed teaching hours.

• Make a significant contribution to school assemblies and newsletters, highlighting the work being done by your students 

• Promote an ethos of equity and equal opportunities for all pupils 

• Protect the privacy of pupils, their families and your colleagues

• Maintain high standards of conduct both within and outside of the classroom. Always act in a way that conforms to the school ethos and values and is in the best interests of the pupils. 

• Set high expectations and standards for the achievement of pupils and your personal performance.

• Emphasise the importance of safety and of safe methods of working methods in the classroom, and in all areas of the school and the curriculum

• Communicate to the pupils that they must take a responsible attitude toward equipment and materials they have been provided, and that they will be punished and possibly charged for damage inflicted upon school property

• Carry out duties as required. This will include playtime supervision, lunchtime supervision and after-school supervision

• Contribute as fully as possible to the annual calendar of School events, in whatever way possible

• All teachers will be a member of a house and are expected to attend and support house events and meetings


For further information about Nantong and our up and coming Recruitment Events, kindly see the attached information, or email nantongrecruitment@wellingtoncollege.cn. 

Huili School Nantong  is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service, or local national equivalent.

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About Huili School Nantong

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  • Huili School Nantong
  • 66 Haide Road, Su-Xi-Tong Science and, Technology Industrial Park, Nantong
  • Jiangsu
  • 226017
  • China
+86 513 6807 8812

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Wellington College China is excited to show off the newest member of its family — Huili School Nantong, whose vision is to cultivate talent through virtue, kindness and integrity. Huili Nantong is committed to providing a world-class bilingual education to Chinese pupils aged 3 to 18 leading to university entrance overseas, primarily in the UK, the USA or Europe. It instills in them the five characteristics of the Huili Identity: Inspired, Intellectual, Independent, Individual and Inclusive. Huili School Nantong encourages its pupils to become both outstanding Chinese nationals as well as well-rounded, global citizens. We say that our children have roots in China but a global vision. Teaching is in both English and Chinese with about 50% of our staff being local Chinese and 50% native-English speaking expats. All of our Chinese staff also speak English and are role models to the children in the school. The Common Room is strong with both the Chinese and foreign staff teaching and socialising together.

Offering a complete 15-year education system, Huili School Nantong has a total  area of 80,000sqm and is the largest campus in the Wellington College China portfolio. It opened its doors to Early Years 2 - Grade 7 (Ages 3 - 13) in September 2022 and will expand by one grade per year hereafter until full. Having an enrolment capacity of 2000, the school also offers boarding accommodation for approximately 700 pupils, starting from primary school age. Huili School Nantong adopts the same architectural style as Wellington College in England coupled with the latest, state-of-the-art facilities.  Its teaching areas, boarding accommodation, school halls, library, indoor sports hall, swimming pool and outdoor football and rugby pitches are all designed to resemble its premium British counterpart in both style and quality.

​Thanks to the network of talent Wellington College China has developed over the past 10 years, Huili School Nantong has been able to assemble an outstanding academic team and a top-quality learning environment. Our links with Wellington College are strong and good practice and CPD is shared regularly between the schools. With more Wellington and Huili school to come online in various global locations in the coming years, it is a very exciting place to work.

Working at Huili School Nantong

Wellington College China has built a vibrant community where pupils and staff alike strive to achieve excellence in all that they do. We employ individuals who are genuinely passionate and committed to working in the educational sector.

We expect our teachers to share our high expectations and aspirations, for themselves and their pupils, and to be demonstrably committed to the all-round education that our Huili approach embodies.

We offer a competitive salary and excellent employee benefits with opportunities for career progression in a global organisation. Through Wellington College China, employees gain access to comprehensive professional development and support.

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