VISITING WOODWIND TEACHER (approx. 3-4 hours)
Colfe's School
Greenwich
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 3 June 2022
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and able self-employed woodwind teacher and oboe specialist, who will be fully committed to the work of the department and will contribute positively to its development. Working closely with the Director of Music, the post holder will be a professional musician with relevant performing/teaching qualifications and experience of teaching all woodwind instruments at beginner level and to diploma level in their specialism. The post holder will initially teach small group lessons in the junior and senior schools on Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute and Oboe as part of the school’s Year 5 and Year 7 instrumental schemes. The post holder will also teach any one-to-one oboists who take up the instrument through the scheme in subsequent years.
The Music Department
The Music Department is a thriving and welcoming place where pupils are encouraged to embrace music in all styles as a means of self-expression and personal development.
Students in Year 7 have the opportunity to participate in an instrumental scheme, receiving free tuition on orchestral instruments and engaging in ensemble performances. The department runs a comprehensive programme of extra-curricular activities including choirs, orchestras, wind, brass and swing bands. There are many performance opportunities for pupils at Colfe’s ranging from high-profile events in external venues to informal platform concerts and assemblies. We have also formed a partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire and are host a recital series to showcase their talented students, from which our pupils can take inspiration.
Our pupils have gained places in prestigious ensembles such as the National Children’s Orchestra and London Schools Symphony Orchestra and a number of students go on to study Music at university or conservatoire.
Across the Junior and Senior Schools our peripatetic teachers teach approximately three hundred instrumental lessons per week. The department has an excellent record in ABRSM and Trinity exams, with over 75% of pupils achieving a distinction or merit since March 2019.
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About Colfe's School
THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL
At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;
• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;
• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;
• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;
• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.
Colfe’s School
Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools. It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652. In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.
In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school. For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.
Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London. All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site. The facilities are excellent: the school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.
Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.
Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it. It is very much a school of the present day. The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy). The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other. Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’. They are lively and willing to have a go.
Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.
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