Teacher of Music
Sir Graham Balfour High School
Staffordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- SGB Main Scale £23,720 - £34,324
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- February 2019
- Apply by:
- 11 January 2019
Job overview
Temporary Teacher of Music
Full Time, Maternity Cover
SGB Main Scale £23,720 - £34,324
Required from February 2019 to February 2020
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic teacher of Music to join our Expressive Arts and Physical Education Faculty. The successful candidate will have a firm commitment to raising whole-school achievement; have a professional approach to staff development; high expectations; and a determination to succeed.
The faculty is at an exciting point in its development and we are looking to appoint a forward thinking, able professional to join the Faculty in its continuing development. This post would suit any well-qualified and ambitious teacher of Music.
At Sir Graham Balfour we offer:
• A well-motivated staff, who embrace willingly a culture of professional development.
• An ever growing reputation in the local community which has resulted in the school being consistently oversubscribed in an area where student rolls are falling.
• A very positive climate for learning.
• A first rate learning environment. We are housed in buildings completed in 2002 and financed via a PFI initiative.
• Innovative 14-19 collaboration and an increasing roll at KS5.
• A commitment to inclusive practice.
Please note:
• The school is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all students and as such all applicants will be submitted for an enhanced DBS check.
• All applicants will be registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority.
• Applications can only be accepted if submitted on the enclosed formal application form.
• Two references will be required, one of which must be from your most recent employer.
• We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion.
Visits to the school are strongly recommended and can be arranged by contacting Mrs Vicki McKeen (details below).
For an application pack, please access our website, www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk, www.tes.com or contact Mrs Vicki McKeen, Headteacher’s PA, on vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk or telephone 01785 223490.
The closing date for applications is: 1.30pm on Friday 11th January 2019. Please return completed applications to vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
Shortlisting for this post will take place Monday 14th January 2019 and successful applicants will be contacted no later than 3.20pm on Tuesday 15th January. If you have not heard from us by this time, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Interviews will take place w/c 14th January 2019; will include a tour around the school, meetings with the Expressive Arts and Physical Education Faculty, delivery of a lesson and interviews for the short-listed candidates. Further details of the lesson will be sent out to the successful candidates.
Attached documents
- Physical Educaiton and Expressive Arts Faculty.docx4.2MB
- Job Description1.32MB
- Person Spec1.29MB
- SGB MAT Recruitment Monitoring Form Sept 2016.doc1.75MB
- SGB MAT Teacher Application Form June 2017.doc1.94MB
- Applicant Info Pack1.52MB
- Letter from the headteacher507.33KB
- Recruitment monitoring form1.76MB
- Child protection policy973.68KB
- Inspection report89.47KB
- Map/location355.23KB
About Sir Graham Balfour High School
- Sir Graham Balfour High School
- North Avenue, Stafford
- Staffordshire
- ST16 1NR
- United Kingdom
Welcome to Sir Graham Balfour School which OFSTED in May 2019 found to be a ‘Good’ school. I hope you find the information it contains useful and informative.
Our vision is summed up in our mission statement –
‘Learning, Working and Succeeding Together’
For us, the ‘together’ is absolutely critical; collaboration, cooperation and teamwork are essential for developing the skills, knowledge and confidence necessary for academic and personal excellence. As well as the drive to achieve academically, the ability to self-regulate, to communicate clearly with others, to know and be proud of who you are, to be compassionate to others and to be ambitious for yourself and others are equally important.
We passionately believe that the circumstances of birth or upbringing should not be the key determining factors to success in life and we are relentless in our ambition for ALL children to achieve as well as possible at Sir Graham Balfour School, regardless of their sexual orientation, socio-economic, ethnic, religious or gender status.
Our Values
Our aim as a school, working alongside parents and our community, is to help students to become outstanding
and effective citizens; to make responsible, appropriate and healthy choices in all things. Staff and parents will not always be there, at the point where critical decisions need to be made. This is why we are committed to values based learning; rules prescribe a set of appropriate/inappropriate behaviours (e.g. don’t run in the corridors) which are specific to given contexts, whereas values provide a set of aspirational guidelines within which children must choose the right behaviour or action for the vast array of contexts they will be faced with in life (e.g. how do I need to move around the school if I am taking responsibility for myself and others?).
These are the values which we believe will help our students to become excellent citizens of Stafford and beyond:
- Commitment to excellence
- Responsibility for ourselves and others
- Care for the local and wider Community
- Respect, Kindness and Compassion for ourselves and others
- Perseverance and resilience
- Ambition for ourselves and others
- Pride in working hard and the success it brings
Our values drive and shape every aspect of school life, taking the place of school rules. They seek to reinforce the development of the whole person, in addition to the academic. They are values which will, if routinely exemplified and embedded, give our young people all the skills and characteristics necessary to become outstanding citizens of the future.
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