Trust Wide Subject Lead/Director - Music - Skegness Grammar School
Skegness Grammar School
Skegness, Lincolnshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 24 April 2018
Job overview
We are seeking an outstanding, inspirational musician to lead curricular and co-curricular Music as Director of Music at Skegness Grammar School, joining the growing team of Music Specialists at one of the country’s leading multi-academy trusts.
The development of the Trust’s Music strategy since 2015, under the leadership of Simon Toyne as Executive Director of Music, has seen an ever-increasing and ambitious programme of musical learning taking place across the Trust’s 34 primary and secondary academies. Partnerships with local music hubs and organisations including The Voices Foundation, Nevill Holt Opera, Apollo5 and the National Youth Orchestra are bringing music into the mainstream of everyday school life – the Trust’s Singing Schools programme, developed with The Voices Foundation, has brought significant whole-school transformation and recently won the Excellence in Early Years / Primary Award at the National Music Teacher Awards; Nevill Holt Opera’s Bel Canto project has seen over 100 secondary students learn bel canto repertoire, receiving regular coaching from NHO artists; while the Trust’s Choral Course Choir, with singers drawn from across all academies, will perform in the Gabrieli Roar residential and commercial recording this summer conducted by Paul McCreesh.
Skegness Grammar School is a high-achieving academic school, and we want to develop the music provision at the school to be among the finest in the state sector. The Music Department is housed in its own block of classrooms, practice rooms and recording studio, and a team of teachers from Lincolnshire Music Service delivers vocal and instrumental tuition. Last year, all of Year 7 and 8 learnt brass instruments as part of a project devised by the Trust with LMS, and students performed at the National Brass Band Festival. Musical ensembles include the school choir, brass band, soul band and smaller instrumental groups, as well as flourishing rock and pop groups and informal music making.
It is the only school in the local area to offer both GCSE and A Level Music, with the offer guaranteed for the foreseeable future, and we expect music to play a significant part in the future development of the school in the local community.
This post is an exciting prospect for an ambitious music teacher who is passionate about the role that music can and should play in our schools, and who wants to play a practical part in the shaping of music education over the coming years. Aspiration and inspiration are the vital qualities that will differentiate the successful candidate from others with equally strong musical and educational credentials. In addition to leading music at the school, the post involves a Trust-wide role developing a vibrant secondary music curriculum across all schools, ensuring that all students are encountering and accessing musical excellence (not just confined to lesson-time), and will involve working closely with the Executive Director of Music, Secondary Music Lead (South), Primary Music Leads and the Cultural Enrichment Team.
Please submit your CV and covering letter by visiting our website.
Attached documents
About Skegness Grammar School
About Skegness Grammar School
Located in Skegness, Lincolnshire, The Skegness Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school. First opened in 1483 by the founder of Magdalen College Oxford, William de Waynflete, the school has operated on its current site since 1933. After spending some time as a grant-maintained school, it converted to academy status in 2012, and is under the sponsorship of the David Ross Education Trust, a multi-academy group responsible for the running of a number of schools across the country. The school is smaller than average, with around 650 students.
As a grammar school, admission to Skegness is selective on the basis of academic achievement, with an entrance examination being required of students in order to gain admission. While the school sixth form is mostly made up of students from the lower school, around 25 places are available for students from other schools, with admission being made here based on school reports and GCSE results. Our sixth form cohort averages at around 130 students.
Executive Headteacher
Jude Hunton
Head of School
Lorraine Walker
Values and Vision
Skegness Grammar School is a coastal, community grammar school. We serve all our hard-working scholars equally and in doing so we are actively addressing issues of disadvantage. Our mission is to ensure our young people succeed in reaching a top university, excel in their careers and are able to make sound moral choices.
We are proud of our inherited motto, which guides our choices and habits and means; doing the right thing makes us stronger.
Murus Aeneus Conscientia Sana
A sound conscious is a wall of brass
At our grammar school we use the rhetorical power of “three” and simple inclusive messaging to make our values have power. Below are our three key values:
Knowledge, Fairness, Practice.
Our staff:
· share our values and high expectations
· serve our hard-working scholars equally
· advocate our evidence-informed SGS Way
Ofsted
“Leaders, staff and those responsible for governance work together effectively, with a common purpose to keep improving all aspects of the school.”
“Pupils are polite and courteous to each other and adults. They know how to behave well and understand why good behaviour is important. They conduct themselves very well in lessons and during social times. Low-level disruption in lessons is not tolerated, allowing pupils to focus on their learning.”
The full report can be found here.
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