Teacher of Music with Drama
Harris Academy Clapham, London, SW4 8LDThis job expired on 7 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 April 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Drama, Music
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,745-£49,666
Pay scale
- MPS (Inner London) + £2,000 Harris Allowance
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
Harris Academy Clapham is looking to appoint a vibrant and dedicated Teacher of Music (with Drama) who exudes passion and energy for these disciplines, igniting the spark of curiosity and creativity in our students. Our Music Department has experienced significant growth in the last year, and we are keen to bring aboard an individual who can contribute to its ongoing development. Music and the arts are an important part of Academy life and are strongly supported by the Academy Leadership Group.
Our Music Department boasts excellent resources, thanks to successful bids securing a £20,000 Restore the Music Grant and an £11,000 Restore the Music Technology Grant. With a dedicated team including a Subject Leader of Music, a music technician, and six peripatetic teachers, we offer a thriving environment for professional growth and innovation.
The Drama Department is an integral aspect of our school community. Our students actively and enthusiastically engage in lessons, and we are supported by Junction Theatre Academy who run enrichment sessions. Our well-equipped drama studio boasts full lighting and sound systems, complemented by curtains and blackout blinds. Additionally, our activities studio features full-length mirrors and crash mats.
The ideal candidate will be a skilled musician with a genuine enthusiasm for drama, eager to play an active role in both departments. We are seeking a confident teacher proficient in teaching both music and drama at Key Stage 3, with the ability to support Key Stage 4 students. Moreover, we seek someone who demonstrates a true passion for organising and facilitating school productions.
If you are passionate about nurturing musical talent and fostering artistic expression, we invite you to apply for the position at our Academy.
What the school offers its staff
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where‘everything is possible'.
TheClapham curriculumis designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of every one of our students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
At Harris Clapham, the curriculum is delivered through high-quality teaching. This is codified in our research-informed approach to pedagogy, which we call the Clapham Way.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible'.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
Operational/Strategic Planning
- To assist in the development of appropriate schemes of work, resources marking policies and teaching strategies.
- To ensure that the classroom curriculum is well planned and logically sequenced.
- To contribute to the subject area's Development Plan and its implementation.
- To attend all appropriate meetings.
Curriculum provision: intent, implementation and impact
- To undertake an allocated programme of teaching (the timetable)
- To ensure the delivery of a curriculum that is well sequenced and implemented effectively
- To place subject-specific vocabulary, knowledge and skills at the heart of the classroom curriculum
- To ensure all students produce high-quality subject-specific work
- To give feedback and support to all students in line with academy policies
- To have the highest standards of behaviour and attitudes
- To contribute towards student's personal development
Staff Development:
- To actively take part in professional development – keeping fully up-to-date with research, subject knowledge and subject developments.
- To want to be a world class teacher.
- To engage actively in the Performance Management Review process.
- To ensure the effective/efficient deployment of classroom support.
- To contribute positively to effective working relations within the academy.
Quality Assurance
- To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of the subject area
- To take on board advice and guidance in relation to the role
- To take part, as may be required, in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions
Management of Information
- To maintain appropriate records and to provide relevant accurate and up-to-date information for Management Information Systems (MIS), registers etc.
- To track student progress and use information to inform teaching and learning.
Management of Resources
- To contribute to the process of the ordering, allocating and managing equipment and materials.
- To co-operate with staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Academy Clapham
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 582 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Clapham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisclapham.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0204 513 9350
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible’.
The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of individual students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
By this we mean that:
every student is supported to fully develop their academic and personal talents; we help students to go on and achieve their dreams and help others
we work with our families to support all our students, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities
we are a supportive part of the Lambeth community, working with our neighbours and others as best we can
every member of staff is supported in becoming the best that they can be, including their future career prospects and ambitions.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible’:
Our key values
Endeavour for excellence
Learning to work hard and relish challenge.
Learning to never give up.
Learning to take sensible risks.
Learning to always strive for the best for themselves and each other.
Integrity and honesty
Always acting with kindness.
Treating others the way they would like to be treated.
Self-belief with a global view
Growing to have the agency to achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.
A central core of our ethos is to fully develop students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural wellbeing. We ensure that our students understand their role in making the academy and their community a safer and better place. We do this in a wide variety of ways, including after-school activities, during lessons, school visits and working with a range of external organisations such as local and national charities.
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