Teacher of Art
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Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
Croydon
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- Salary:
- MPS including Outer London Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Apply by:
- 12 December 2022
Job overview
TEACHER OF ART
Location: Croydon, Surrey
Required for: January 2023
Contract: Temporary (Maternity Cover)
Salary: MPS including Outer London Allowance
Closing Date 12th December 2022
Interviews: tbc
- Teach Art from Year 7 to A Level
- Teach GCSE and A Level Photography
- Join a strong, small, successful department with high standards
- ·Work alongside knowledgeable and experienced colleagues
- Be part of a school that has been in Croydon for over 300 years, with strong traditions and wide-ranging extra-curricular activities
- Develop professionally and personally in a secure, but lively atmosphere
- Contribute to our pastoral care and our Christian ethos
Archbishop Tenison’s is a 308 year old Church of England, mixed 11-18 comprehensive school with an excellent track record at both GCSE and A Level. Most importantly, it is a community where the people who work believe they can make a difference to the young people they teach. Our school motto is “Academic excellence for each person in a Christian community”.
The school is situated near East Croydon Station which has excellent fast rail links to London and the South Coast. There is staff parking on-site at the school.
Archbishop Tenison’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and any appointment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as any other pre-employment checks.
For any further information, please contact Joan Andrew, Headteacher’s PA via patoheadteacher@archten.croydon.sch.uk.
Visits to the school prior to the application are also welcome.
The Art Department
The Art Department in this popular and successful 11-18 mixed comprehensive school, currently consists of two full time members of staff and one Art Technician who is shared with Design and Technology.
Teaching of Art is accommodated in a purpose-built suite with two studios. The studios are very well resourced with facilities for large-scale painting, print making, 3D construction and graphical digital work. Art and Photography are both popular examination choices and the curriculum time available is good. At GCSE students study Art and Design through Eduqas examination board and the department has introduced GCSE Photography this year also through the Eduqas examination board.
The Eduqas Art and Design course specification is also used in both A Level Art and Design and A Level Photography. Both subjects are very popular courses. Students are successful in progressing to study further in Art colleges around the country, including UAL Art Colleges.
At Key Stage 3 pupils are taught in mixed ability practical groups of 26 – 30 pupils. Pupils follow diverse schemes of work focusing on issue-based learning. The department has a strong tradition exploring drawing and painting, students also experience printmaking, ICT projects, 3D artwork and a range of contemporary and traditional art from different times and cultures.
Visits to Major London collections are popular amongst pupils and students. During the Summer term of 2022 there was a wide variety of successful trips. These included a visit to The National Gallery to see the Kehinde Wiley exhibition, Tate Britain to see the ‘Life between Islands’ exhibition, Tate Modern to see the ‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’ exhibition and to The Photographers’ Gallery to see the exhibit ‘For the Record: Photography and the Art of the Album Cover.’ Most recently, our GCSE Art group visited ‘The EY Exhibition: Cezanne’ exhibition that has just opened at Tate Modern.
The Royal Academy Outreach program has also visited the school on several occasions. Our department, has external links to professional artists and creatives within the United Kingdom who have shared their knowledge and wealth of experience through work experience, talks and workshops. In previous years, we have had visits from luminaries and experts in the field of Art and Photography, including the Chief Sports photographer for The Times Newspaper, lecturers from London College of Fashion and former students who are now enjoying careers within the creative industry.
Student and pupil work has been successfully entered and won local and regional competitions. In more recent competitions one of our Year 8 pupils became a finalist in the BioMedia Meltdown and will be having her work featured in their book. Also, one of our A Level Photography students won the ‘David Sims Photography Award’ and will get to work in his studio with both Sims and his team.
In the summer term each year the school holds the annual Art Exhibition, which includes the work of the A Level students and GCSE pupils. Pupils and student artwork is regularly exhibited and has a strong presence around the school.
The Art department is well resourced and well organized, which ensures rapid progress irrespective of pupil and students’ individual starting points. There is outstanding quality of teaching that result in productive learning, above average standards and good achievement of pupils and students. The Art department operates as a close-knit, friendly team, with all staff agreeing to their contribution towards formulating policy and supporting the important place of Art in the curriculum.
Miss Wren – Head of Art
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About Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
- Selborne Road, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR0 5JQ
- United Kingdom
The School
In 1714 the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, founded a school for some "ten poor boys and ten poor girls" on a site which has since become Croydon's popular Whitgift Shopping Centre. As we enter our 310th year, and three sites later, Archbishop Tenison's is now situated in the leafy Park Hill area of the town, a 5 minute bus ride or fifteen minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station.
Archbishop Tenison's is an 11-18 voluntary aided, mixed comprehensive school, part of the educational provision of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and the London Borough of Croydon.
The school is well regarded locally for its high academic standards, an academic Sixth Form, the very high level of pastoral care provided for the pupils and its Christian ethos. Assemblies are an important part of school life; there is an annual Eucharist for each year group; all students take Religious Studies at GCSE, with a good number continuing to A Level.
The School caters for around 760 pupils, including the Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed every year and as a result it is necessary for the Governors to rank applicants for the 150 places in Year 7 according to the schools admission criteria, with places allocated largely on the basis of church membership, with 20% of places allocated to feeder schools and 20% of places allocated to all. No entrance examination is set.
Many of our pupils stay on into the Sixth Form and students also join from other schools in the Borough and beyond. The Sixth Form offers a range of AS and A Level courses, together with some vocational courses. Most of the Year 13 proceed to Higher Education each year, gaining entry to top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
Archbishop Tenison’s aims to provide an education which is broad, balanced, relevant and accessible to the diverse and close-knit community it serves.
The school is well regarded in the area for its music, drama and sport. Students are active in debating and public speaking. We regularly achieve very impressive results in National Mathematical Challenges. There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities with around 40 different clubs and societies. Charity support also features strongly in the life of the Sixth Form and the school.
The rewarding aspect of working at Archbishop Tenison's is reflected by the way in which staff stay at the school and the high level of staff commitment to extra-curricular activities mentioned earlier. Moreover, each year there are educational journeys in the UK and abroad, residential field courses, Duke of Edinburgh and Christian
The school has featured in a number of guides to good state schools and was described as "Good" in our last OFSTED Report. The school has both a strong sense of traditional values and a readiness to embrace new ideas which are of real benefit to the pupils and students. We are looking for the person appointed to this post to be part of a school with both a distinguished history and a vision of Christian educational purpose.
Transportation
London Borough of Croydon, the largest London Borough, has good transport links, by train Central London only twenty minutes away, Gatwick 30 minutes and Brighton approximately forty minutes.
ECTs, CPD, ITTs and School Direct
At Archbishop Tenison’s we pride ourselves in our successful trainee teacher and ECT training programmes. We have a number of support staff that have taken up teacher training, becoming very successful subject teachers, heads of year and subject leaders. Every academic year we have numerous PGCE, School Direct and Work Experience students either training with us or using our School as one of their professional placements.
Southeast Learning Alliance (SELA) - An Initial Teacher Training Programme
At Archbishop Tenison’s we are in partnership with a number of schools in the local area to provide high quality, bespoke training opportunities for all our trainees. The Initial Teacher Training packages offered by SELA allow prospective teachers to train in a dynamic educational setting across fourteen highly different but successful schools in the Croydon and Crawley areas. The Alliance comprises seven comprehensive secondary schools and seven primary schools, all of whom are working in partnership to help produce high quality and well-trained teachers of the future. The in-school training students receive is complemented by the accredited provider, where the learning is subject specific and helps to fully prepare students for delivery of the National Curriculum. All of the training that students engage with is aligned with the Core Content Framework, ensuring a smooth transition into being an Early Careers Teacher following the Early Career Framework.
More information can be found at: https://sela-teacher-training.org/
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