Teacher of Music in the Preparatory School

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Would you like to work in a well-established independent Preparatory School with ambitious plans for the future?

As a Teacher of Music in the Preparatory School, you will be joining a high-performing and ambitious music department reporting to the Head of Music. You will contribute to an excellent music programme to stretch and challenge our most able musicians whilst encouraging musical enjoyment for all. Highlights of the musical calendar include our annual Carol Service, annual Choral Outreach Concert, House Music Competition and our annual choral evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Many of our Year 6 pupils are awarded music scholarships to both Forest’s Senior School and other independent schools. We are looking for a team player to support the Head of Music to strengthen the instrumental side of our co-curricular provision as well as to contribute to the evolution of music at Forest Prep. Candidates should be a strong instrumental performer (a reed/brass player would be an advantage) and, a confident and imaginative teacher in the classroom. Visible commitment to the role, an ability demonstrate clear ambition and enthusiasm for music, and a willingness to be involved fully in the life of the school.

The successful applicant also needs to have a love of music of many different forms, a desire to encourage pupils to perform music and respond to it with enjoyment and understanding and motivation to work with pupils and young people. S/he will be recognised as an outstanding musician and teacher: dynamic and imaginative. S/he will be responsible for creating, leading and managing a key strand of our co-curricular provision – the Years 3 and 4 Music Instrumental Programme. As well as one period of academic music each week, Year 3 and Year 4 pupils enjoy an hour of musical instrumental, where small groups study the following instruments: violin, cello, double bass, trumpet, trombone, french horn, clarinet and flute. These sessions are delivered by Forest School’s peripatetic music staff.

The safety, wellbeing, happiness and fulfilment of all pupils is paramount to Forest Prep’s mission; we have a comprehensive system of pastoral care and robust safeguarding procedures. The successful candidate will need to have an up-to-date awareness and knowledge of all matters relating to safeguarding. They will also need to be able to quickly build positive relationships and rapport with pupils of the relevant age group, whilst always setting and maintaining appropriate boundaries and promoting the highest standards of behaviour and courtesy.

Introduction to Forest Preparatory School

Forest Preparatory School is in the middle of a very exciting development of the site, as work on the expansion of the Prep School building is nearing completion. This has enabled Forest Preparatory School’s provision to reach a new and even more innovative level. The benefit of the structure and the economies of scale it brings, Forest Prep School is a vital component of an all-through school that teaches pupils up to the age of 18. Forest Preparatory School has expanded this year to three forms in the Pre-Preparatory and will, at full size, reach 325 pupils.

Forest Preparatory School Vision Aims and Values

Vision

Forest Preparatory School will provide an education founded on challenge, breadth and personal fulfilment. Our learning environments will be inclusive, creative and industrious spaces where teachers inspire and support pupils to exceed their expectations and strive for ambitious goals. Forest Prep pupils will achieve more than academic excellence; they will become remarkable young people, empowered to make a positive difference in a changing world. Our staff will champion every pupil, nurturing the qualities of initiative, perseverance and responsibility.

Aims

Forest Preparatory School equips pupils to flourish in the world and prepare them for the next stage of their education. We achieve this by:

Curating a broad and innovative curriculum

Building pupils’ capacity to learn and to lead

Challenging pupils to think deeply and to develop self-reliance

Nurturing pupils’ pastoral and spiritual development in an atmosphere of trust, fairness and community

Developing pupils’ sense of empathy, compassion and global citizenship

Caring for all aspects of pupils’ wellbeing and teaching them to practise self-care

Values

Growth, Responsibility, Learning, Wellbeing, Hard Work Community Diversity

Forest Preparatory School: Where Young People Grow

About Forest

Forest School is an independent school for boys and girls aged 4-18 yrs established in 1834; benefiting from a tremendous location on the edge of North-East London. London’s only diamond structure school, Forest combines both single-sex and co-educational teaching on a single site as pupils move up the school. Our 1,395 boys and girls are taught together until the age of seven, separately from seven to 16, before coming back together again in a joint sixth form. This diamond structure offers all the academic benefits of single-sex teaching with all the social benefits of a co-educational school. The best of both worlds.

Location

Forest is a city school set within 50 acres of grounds surrounded by Epping Forest, within easy walking distance of Snaresbrook Central line tube station and Wood Street Overground station.

Why work at Forest?

There are many benefits of working at Forest school as staff are our single most important asset. Key benefits include:

• Generous CPD budget

• Comprehensive Professional Development Review system

• Opportunities to contribute to the wider community via our extensive Outreach Programme

• 18 weeks holiday and our own salary scale with salaries above those paid in the maintained sector

• Free death in service cover and subsidised AXA PPP healthcare insurance

• All teaching staff currently enrolled in the national Teachers’ Pension Scheme

• 20% fee remission (pro-rata for part time staff) for children attending Forest which is applicable Y3-Y13

• Free hot lunch (takeaway sandwich lunch also available) and refreshments throughout the day

• Free membership of the Sylvestrian Leisure Centre during school hours and heavily subsidised membership outside those hours

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis so early applications are encouraged. The School reserves the right to make an appointment at any stage.

Interviews will commence week beginning 15 February 2021