Teacher of Music
Wood Green School
Witney
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- February 2019
- Apply by:
- 11 January 2019
Job overview
Wood Green is an Academy school in the thriving town of Witney, 10 miles west of Oxford. Our core purpose at Wood Green School is to ensure “Excellence for All” and everything we do contributes to achieving this. This is a very exciting time for Wood Green, as we create our truly excellent school. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our journey and to make a real difference to the lives of young people. We are focussed on improving outcomes for all our learners and raising aspiration, building on the good behaviour of students and a culture of strong pastoral care.
The right candidate:
Applications are welcome for the position of an enthusiastic and talented teacher of Music to join our successful, forward looking department. This is a temporary part-time post from February 2019 until August 2019.
• You will be an NQT or an outstanding teacher with a passion for music
• You will show the ability to inspire students of all ages and abilities
• You will have high expectations of yourself and students and be committed to your professional development
• You are committed to playing a full role in the development of the Music Department and the wider school.
Wood Green can offer:
• A Music department that achieves consistently good outcomes and has a drive to improve from Year 7 through to A level
• Students who thrive on good relationships with staff and who enjoy music
• A reputation for high quality music for all students with over 200 students participating in a large and successful programme of extra-curricular ensembles each week. Ensembles have been invited to play at events held at Blenheim Palace, Buckingham Palace, Birmingham Conservatoire and many other prestigious venues. We complete annually in the Regional Festival of Music for Youth and have been invited to perform at the national finals in Birmingham. We currently have a Junior Choir, a Senior Choir, a Senior Girls’ Choir, a Senior Boys’ Choir, an invitation only Chamber Choir, a Concert Band, an Orchestra, a Big Band and a Jazz Combo.
• Development opportunities for staff, collaborating with teachers within school, across the West Oxfordshire Learning Partnership and as part of the Acer Multi-Academy Trust.
• A school committed to enabling every student to achieve the very best they can with supportive colleagues and a constant focus on enhancing teaching and learning.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Attached documents
About Wood Green School
Wood Green School is a mixed, comprehensive, secondary school with sixth form situated in Witney, Oxfordshire. It is an academy converter operating under The Acer Trust, which was co-founded by four Oxfordshire schools: Wood Green School, Chalgrove Primary School, Icknield Community College and Matthew Arnold School.
Wood Green School provides 1,335 places for students between the ages of 11 and 18 when fully subscribed. It converted to academy status in February 2017.
Headteacher
Rob Shadbolt
Values and vision
Wood Green School subscribes to the Acer Trust values of trust, equity and opportunity, believing these are essential for a successful collaboration and for providing high-quality education for all students through these important years of their lives.
The secondary school also uses the LEARN Well values of learning, effort, aspiration, respect, nurture and wellbeing to capture the most important aspects of an excellent education. High expectations are always placed on students, and they are helped to achieve these in a happy and supportive environment.
Ofsted report
“Leaders at all levels, teachers and governors have effectively brought about improvement across the school. Leaders make very effective use of information on students’ progress to identify where strengths and weaknesses life. Subject leaders make a positive contribution to improvement by closely monitoring the quality of teaching in their departments. Students’ social, spiritual, moral and cultural development is promoted effectively across the school and strongly contributes to the school’s caring ethos.”
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