Theatre Manager & Teacher of Production Arts
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Buckinghamshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2024
Job overview
Required for September 2024, following the promotion of the current postholder to a senior freelance position in the theatre industry, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Production Arts specialist to join the passionate Performing Arts Faculty at Borlase as our Theatre Manager, leading on the delivery of the Production Arts BTEC qualification and working alongside all other Performing Arts staff.
The candidate would need to be confident teaching BTEC Production Arts/Technical Theatre with 16-18 year olds, and wider industry experience would be essential. Other than teaching and assessing the students within the Production Arts course, key responsibilities of the post include management of the theatre facilities for both internal and external events (including rigging and set up) and support of the Music, Dance and Drama curriculum work (including examinations). The new Theatre Manager will be supported by a new Performing Arts Technician, who we will look to recruit later this year.
Please do contact us with any queries or if you would like to discuss your situation with us first.
For an application form please visit www.swbgs.com and click on Vacancies
Applications submitted via email should be addressed to Mr Ed Goodall, Headteacher and sent to Mrs Anna Summerfield,
Director of HR at asummerfield@swbgs.com
Deadline for application: 9 am, Monday 22 April 2024.
Early Application encouraged as they will be considered upon arrival.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should suitable candidates apply before the closing date.
The school is fully committed to the DfE guidance on Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education and all candidates for the post will therefore be subject to vetting procedures following Buckinghamshire Council’s guidance and the Trust’s Safer Recruitment Policy.
All shortlisted candidates will be will be subject to an online search as part of the safer recruitment process.
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About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
- West Street, Marlow
- Buckinghamshire
- SL7 2BR
- United Kingdom
About Sir William Borlase's Grammar School:
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in the attractive Thames-side town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Founded in 1624 and still based on the original site, we are proud of our heritage as we approach our 400th birthday and excited to be inspiring and empowering the aspirations of our students today. Borlase is forward-looking; in 2019 we were awarded World Class School status from High Performance Learning for our innovative practice and received a government grant of over £2million to develop further our excellent facilities. We have a motivated staff of subject specialists who enjoy sharing their expertise with committed and engaged students. As a Teaching School, we have a particular strength in developing our teachers through a research-engaged professional development programme.
Headteacher
Ed Goodall.
Vision and Values
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School is committed to being an inspirational learning environment for students and staff, empowering young people to fulfil their aspirations and ambitions; supporting them in developing the confidence to shape their own futures and in so doing, the future of the world around them.
Our values today are captured in the school motto, adopted by those early scholars back in 1624. Te Digna Sequere - Follow things Worthy - is a principle that underpins the distinctive ethos of the school. It reminds us all that we should have a clear moral purpose behind the choices we make; that we should value all individuals within a supportive community and that we have the potential to use our different talents to make a positive difference at Borlase and beyond.
The Borlase Curriculum provides a breadth and depth of academic learning and cultural experience to excite and extend all our students. It is rich in knowledge and in opportunities to develop creativity, instilling a life-long enthusiasm for learning. Our curriculum is delivered by passionate, specialist teachers who encourage aspiration, intellectual curiosity and the exploration of their subject disciplines inside and beyond the classroom, as independent thinkers and learners. It includes a broad range of super and extra-curricular opportunities which ignite and extend students' interests, enthusiasm and skills across a wide range of endeavours including those linked to academic subjects, to sports, the arts, engineering, AI, public speaking, creative writing, entrepreneurism and so much more.
Ofsted
"This is an outstanding school. The headteacher and senior leadership team have the very highest of expectations and have developed an inspirational learning culture which is embraced by both staff and students. Teaching and achievement are of the very highest quality and students take responsibility for their own learning.”
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