Teacher of Art and Graphic Design
King's Academy Easthampstead Park
Bracknell
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR + Fringe
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019 start
Job overview
Applications from NQTs and more experienced teachers welcome.
Due to the growing number of students wishing to study Art and Graphics at our school, we are looking to expand our teaching team by recruiting a colleague, able to deliver Art, 3 Dimensional Design and Graphic Design to at least KS4 level and potentially A-Level. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with a 3D specialism, as we are keen to expand the opportunities we currently offer for students to experience modelling with mixed media, sculpture and multimedia design. The candidate would join our Design faculty, which encompasses the disciplines of Art, Photography, Graphics, 3D Design, Resistant Materials and Food Technology. In recent years, the department has enjoyed excellent outcomes and healthy student recruitment onto KS4 and 5 courses. We are currently developing our curricular offer by expanding into printmaking and clay work. This is a great opportunity to join a successful department, with strong, established leadership and a shared passion for really bringing art, design and technology to life for students. Applications from both NQTs and more experienced teachers are warmly welcomed.
Easthampstead Park Community School is a vibrant, cutting edge learning environment. Our school culture marries unswervingly high academic expectations with excellent pastoral care and support. We believe a healthy three-way partnership between parent, teacher and student is essential to effective learning, and are proud of our setting and local community. Teaching and learning is at the very heart of our school and drives everything we do. Our whole school expectation that students and teachers alike never stop learning means that staff quickly develop their practice and progress in their career. Our PPA time is deliberately generous, aiming to give our teachers a chance to maintain a healthy work-life balance and build strong departments. We also allocate significant funding every year to professional development, and offer the chance to contribute to working groups on teaching and learning and literacy.
This is a very exciting time to join us. In recent years, we have made excellent progress, and at our last OFSTED inspection (June 2016), we were rated as ‘good’ in all areas.
We aspire to be rated ‘outstanding’, driven by a core belief that all of our students deserve nothing but the best possible teaching and support in order to be happy, healthy and successful. We aim to deliver the best quality teaching and learning in a school where staff and students have respect for, and pride in themselves, their school and their community.
If you feel you have the necessary skills, mind-set and determination to join us on our journey towards ‘outstanding,’ we would very much like to hear from you. Visits to the school prior to application are warmly welcomed.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to all teaching staff, including access to Perkbox which provides teaching staff with money off in various High Street stores and with a wide range of online retailers.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Rhona Franco (Personnel Officer) on either the telephone number or email address below.
Online applications can be completed via the Bracknell Forest Council link from the school website https://www.epschool.org/staff-vacancies/
Should you require any further information, please telephone our Personnel Officer on 01344 390826 or email recruitment@epschool.org.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 20 May 2019.
Applications will be considered upon receipt, so you are encouraged to make an expression of interest as soon as possible.
Interviews: w/c 20 May 2019
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be undertaken.
No agencies please - please do not forward CVs.
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About King's Academy Easthampstead Park
King’s Academy Easthampstead Park is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive school situated in south Bracknell and the majority of our students are local; the Headteacher’s vision is for us to become the first-choice destination school for the designated catchment and beyond. There are currently just under 1000 students on roll and this number is predicted to rise due to the increasing popularity of the school and new housing developments in the area.
At King’s Academy Easthampstead Park, our vision is to provide an outstanding education for all students which fully prepares them for life beyond school. We aim to develop learners who are happy, healthy and equipped in every way to deal with the challenges and opportunities they will face in the future. The values of respect and pride are central to our school. We have high academic aspirations for all of our students, but also believe that education is about far more than just achieving outstanding academic results in examinations. We seek to develop students who have a strong sense of community, both locally and globally, who are confident, able to lead others and bring about positive change. The school is fully inclusive and has facilities to cater for all learning including special physical and education needs. Our facilities are excellent and we have a good range of performance and sports facilities which support both our in-school and our extended school curriculum.
In November 2022, we joined King’s Group Academies (KGA), following an associate membership lasting nearly two years. We took a great deal of time and care when choosing a MAT to join, and believe the relationship we have established allows us to retain our own unique school identity, whilst benefiting from the economies of scale and increased opportunities afforded by being part of a larger group of schools (‘the best of both worlds!’). Since we joined KGA, staff at all levels have been really enjoying sharing best practice and working collaboratively with their peers from the other KGA schools.
We have an incredibly friendly and supportive staff who enjoy working with a student body that fully reflects our community. The Senior Leadership Team includes two Deputy Headteachers, two Assistant Headteachers, and four Senior Teachers, all of whom will have strategic responsibility for a key area in the school’s development. There is a strong sense that the school is moving forward and we believe that this is an exciting time to join us.
The Local Area
Bracknell is located in the heart of Berkshire, 30 miles west of London and 10 miles to the east of Reading. The town is a thriving commercial centre with headquarters of many national and international companies. Transport links are good and allow staff to live within a large geographical area. The M3 and M4 motorways are each within ten minutes of the school and there is a direct rail link to London Waterloo or via Reading, a fast train to London Paddington. London airports are within easy reach.
Bracknell offers The Lexicon, a comprehensive shopping area, and travelling to The Oracle in Reading, The Meadows in Camberley or to other shopping centres at Guildford, Slough and Windsor is straightforward. Within Bracknell there is The South Hill Park Arts Centre, which comprises theatre, cinema and galleries. Centrally there is a 10-screen cinema, bowling alley, night club and many restaurants and pubs. The Ozone Ice Rink features a new state of the art ice skating rink for public use. Other sporting and leisure facilities include a Sports Centre with three swimming pools, indoor halls and an outdoor athletics track. The Coral Reef water sports ‘fun pool’ and the Lookout, a local heritage centre, are on the edge of the town.
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