Teacher of Drama
Wellingborough School
Northamptonshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- As per Wellingborough School Teachers’ Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for September 2020
- Apply by:
- 12 March 2020
Job overview
The Role
Start Date: September 2020
Disclosure Level: Enhanced
Reporting to: Head of Drama, Senior School
Hours: Part time, 0.5 full time equivalent
Salary: As per Wellingborough School Teachers’ Pay Scale
The post would suit a well-qualified applicant who has the experience to support the provision of KS3 Drama, GCSE and A Level but who would be supported by a Head of Department and by a very experienced colleague who teaches in the Prep School and who has, historically, had oversight of the School’s major production.
Drama at Wellingborough School
Drama is currently taught as a discrete subject from Years 5 and 6 of the Prep School and it is offered as an optional GCSE subject in Years 10 and 11, following the AQA specification. Drama is also offered at A Level and the successful applicant would be encouraged to build on the current situation to increase numbers at GCSE and A Level Drama in the future. In addition to this, with the implementation of Project Chrysalis in September 2020, Drama will now be taught at KS3. The successful applicant would be involved in developing this new provision of Drama and the role is expected to expand as KS3 provision increases year by year.
GCSE Drama lessons have access to The Pod, which comprises a large open space, which can have seating, and which opens onto balconies giving an al fresco atmosphere. This has a wireless sound system and lighting bars with LED lighting, as well as the usual ceiling mounted projector and large monitor. There is also a new Drama classroom space being created located next to the Senior School Hall, so that students can benefit from a classroom environment and have space for practical work.
Wellingborough School has a strong tradition for Drama outside the curriculum, having the annual production staged at the local Castle Theatre so that the cast, and all those involved in the production, can experience professional facilities. The School has a long-standing tradition for excellent whole school productions (Most recently, Sweeney Todd, A View from the Bridge, Oliver, and Les Misérables) and smaller productions such as the Sixth Form play rehearsed through the Enrichment Programme and Junior Drama productions. The successful appointee would be expected to support these enrichment activities.
The post advertised would require 0.5 full time equivalent for Drama although this could be enhanced by a timetabled contribution to the Games programme, the School’s Combined Cadet Force or the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
At times, it may be necessary to work beyond your normal hours in order to meet deadlines. Where this is necessary, any additional hours will be agreed with the HoD.
Further details and application form may be downloaded from our website http://www.wellingboroughschool.org/who-we-are/vacancies
Please can interested applicants complete the application form and return it, along with a covering letter, to Lulu Corrigan, HR Manager, Wellingborough School, London Road, Wellingborough. NN8 2BX Applications by email are welcome and should be sent to recruitment@wellingboroughschool.org
(Other forms of applications will not be accepted)
Closing date for the receipt of applications: 9am, Thursday 12th March 2020
Interviews will take place on w/c 16th March 2020
Further details and application form may be downloaded from our website.
Please complete the relevant School application form which can be found on our website: http://www.wellingboroughschool.org/Job-Vacancies ; we will only accept applications made on this form.
Wellingborough 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.
Wellingborough School is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Attached documents
About Wellingborough School
- Wellingborough School
- London Road, Wellingborough
- Northamptonshire
- NN8 2BX
- United Kingdom
Wellingborough School is an independent, co-ed, selective, Christian-based though multi-faith all-through school, situated in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire with a broad geographical catchment area. Currently it provides 850 places for nursery, primary, secondary and sixth-form students aged 3-18.
The school was originally a Tudor Grammar School, founded as an all-boys boarding school in 1595. Originally situated in the centre of town, it completed the move to its 45-acre current location in 1881. Girls were admitted for the first time in 1970.
Headmaster
Andrew Holman
Values and Vision
Wellingborough's motto is “Salus in Arduis”, meaning fulfilment through challenge. From its primary school to its sixth-form college, the educational aims are the same: to enrich cultural experiences, develop good behaviour, promote a close partnership between school and home, achieve academically and help students make the most of all the educational opportunities that the school provides.
Its size helps promote a communal family feel, as does the ages it sees children through, many children staying for the whole 15 years of education. Although no longer a boarding school, it sees itself as having the atmosphere of one.
ISI
"The quality of the pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent."
ISI INSPECTION, MARCH 2022
In March 2022, Wellingborough School was inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), the body approved by the Government for the inspection of independent schools. Inspections take place roughly every six years, and allow an opportunity for the school to be scrutinised in considerable depth.
As most of you will not be au fait with the structure, scale or significance of an Inspection, it is worth me saying that it is a big deal! As well as surveys of students, staff and parents, the Inspectors sifted through our policies and examined our risk assessments before launching into a whole host of lesson and activity observations, student and staff interviews and work scrutinies, seeking to triangulate every bit of evidence they found before drawing their conclusions– conclusions that will form part of how the outside world views us until the next time a team turns up.
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