Teacher of Music
Bromley High School
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 24 March 2025
Job overview
The role
Bromley High School is looking for a well-qualified Teacher of Music to join us on a part time basis.
As a Teacher of Music, you will plan, prepare and deliver engaging Music lessons to students from Year 7 up to A Level, and will also make an enthusiastic contribution to the activities of a flourishing Music Department.
You will be a creative, inspirational and dynamic teacher, with a track record of excellent teaching in Secondary Music and the ability to teach the subject up to and including A Level. You must also demonstrate the ability to direct choral and/or instrumental ensembles and lead regular, productive rehearsals.
Music at Bromley
The ‘All Steinway’ Music School is housed in purpose-built accommodation with 9 practice rooms, 2 large teaching rooms, an octagonal Recital Room and an iMac Music Technology Room. There are over 25 visiting teachers, offering tuition on piano, strings, woodwind, brass, percussion – orchestral and kit, guitar – acoustic and electric, voice, harp and recorder.
A variety of choirs and ensembles rehearse weekly – Orchestras, Bands, Choirs, Jazz Group, Rock Groups and Chamber Ensembles. A Music Festival held each year enables all musicians to compete for the prestigious Music of the Year Award and runs alongside a series of workshops delivered by professional players. As an ‘All Steinway School’ we have a complete fleet of Steinway pianos in addition to extending links with prominent pianists world-wide; we are the first and only all girls’ school in the world to have this status.
About Bromley High School
Bromley High School is a consistently oversubscribed, academically selective girls’ school with 900 pupils from 4-18, occupying a 25-acre parkland site in leafy Bickley, in Kent. In 2018, the school was recognised by ISI as a centre of excellence for training and development of new teachers.
As part of the GDST, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- Free school lunches
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
- Access to school multi-gym, swimming pool, yoga classes
For further details and to apply please click the apply button.
Applications must be received by 8am on Monday 24th March 2025.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 27th March 2025.
Please note early applications are encouraged as the position maybe closed sooner in the event of sufficient suitable applications being received.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
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About Bromley High School
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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.
A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.
The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.
Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing. In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.
Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.
Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system. In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.
The Girls’ Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).
Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
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