Teacher of Music & Drama
Longsands Academy
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 22 May 2022
Job overview
The Role
Longsands Academy has an exciting opportunity for a Teacher of Music and Drama to join their team!
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, inspirational teacher to assist with the continued development of the existing high standards of learning and teaching of Music and Drama at Longsands Academy.
The successful applicant will be a talented and creative individual, and appropriately qualified specialist. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who wishes to make a real difference. The successful applicant will have the ability to ensure and maintain high quality teaching and learning and excellent levels of student progress.
You will be joining a highly successful and forward-thinking department, teaching across the age and attainment range in Music, and GCSE Drama, in an environment where students are well behaved and keen to do well. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to Music and/or Drama both in and out of the classroom.
As our Teacher of Music and Drama, you will be:
• Inspire trust and confidence in students and colleagues.
• Build team commitment with colleagues, and in the classroom engage and motivate students.
• Demonstrate analytical thinking to improve the quality of students' learning.
We are looking for individuals who have:
• Effective classroom teacher skills
• Qualified teacher status
• Degree or equivalent
About Us
Longsands Academy is a successful 11-18 comprehensive school in St Neots, a market town with good facilities, within easy reach of Cambridge and with excellent transport links to London. There is a fully equipped Fitness Suite available for staff use.
Astrea Academy Trust is fully committed to being diverse and inclusive workforce where together we can embrace each other’s unique individuality, background and heritage. We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ and all our application forms hide your personal information so we can focus solely on your experience, skills and qualities.
We believe that by reflecting and representing the communities and people we serve, we will better and further the life chances of our pupils.
In return, we can offer you:
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Continued professional development and training opportunities
Closing Date Sunday 22 May 2022
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Interested in applying?
If this is something you’re interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role to apply.
Applications from ECTs will be welcomed. Longsands has a strong track record of supporting and retaining ECTs by ensuring excellent mentoring, a supportive culture and many opportunities for development and involvement in wider school activities.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
All queries should be directed via email to recruitment@astreaacademytrust.org
Attached documents
About Longsands Academy
Longsands Academy, part of the Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and its surrounding area. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging, purposeful and supportive environment in which all of our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence and become responsible, well rounded citizens.
A Welcome from our Director for Secondary Education
Longsands is brimming with potential. The academy is at the heart of the community and has pledged to provide a rich, broad and varied education to all the pupils it serves. The academy and Trust are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture, influenced by Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion and Tom Bennett. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all, with an underpinning philosophy that ‘education for all should confer the benefits associated with education for the rich’ (Michael Young).
We have recently launched the Astrea behaviour curriculum, where behaviour expectations and routines are explicitly taught and deliberately practised. The creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything.
Longsands Academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust and since joining the Trust in 2018 has developed a strong curriculum, good teaching and effective pupil support. If you are aligned to our mission and values, have a strong track record of improving young people’s education and a drive to do more, we very much look forward to hearing from you. We fully recommend that you take the opportunity to make an informal visit prior to making your application to see the school for yourself.
With best wishes,
Richard Tutt
Director for Secondary Education
Values and vision
The curriculum, at Longsands Academy, is defined as ‘the knowledge, skills & values students are expected to learn, the units and lessons that are taught, the planned sequence of instruction, the resources used to support teaching and the assessments used to evaluate learning’.
At Longsands Academy, our curriculum is designed to fulfil our core purpose which aims to secure the best possible experience, learning and outcomes for each young person for whom we have responsibility. As such, we believe that students are entitled to be immersed in ‘the best that has been thought and said’ which is best achieved through a broad and balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum and a strong personal development programme. In addition, our provision is tailored so that all students, whatever their background and ability, can follow suitable pathways, from Years 7 through to Year 13, which maximise their chances to progress their learning and achieve academic excellence and success in public examinations, as well as promoting emotional wellbeing and mental health, enabling them to successfully access the next chapter of their lives.
Our commitment to promoting an ethos of learning for life and work throughout all aspects of the Academy as well as our provision of a wide range of extra-curricular and personal development opportunities aims to instil our core values in students, including care and respect for self and others, honesty, creativity, clear and open communication, high aspirations and the determination to fulfil them and strong relationships and shared goals achieved through teamwork.
Find out more here - Longsands Prospectus
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