Teacher of Music
Little Ilford School
Newham
- Salary:
- MPS 1-6
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Summer or Autumn 2025
- Apply by:
- 5 January 2025
Job overview
Full or Part Time (0.6 FTE Minimum)
Required for April 2025 or September 2025
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in your teaching career in a well led and supportive faculty. Little Ilford is a friendly, inclusive and oversubscribed school in Newham making a big difference to the lives of our diverse student community. In October 2016, we moved into a brand new state-of-the-art building. We have a strong reputation and high expectations of both students and staff and consider this to be an exciting place to work and develop, where creativity and innovation are nurtured. Our targets for attainment and progress are challenging, but staff have the focus and determination to realise them for the benefit of our students. We really know our students, and focus on them as individuals. Pastoral systems are strong and we value a curriculum offer and activities that educate the whole child.
As a school we are absolutely committed to ensuring that all staff have access to comprehensive professional development and have developed an exciting and impactful programme designed to offer training that makes a real difference. We value a good home/work balance and do what we can to support our staff in this respect.
We are looking for a committed, enthusiastic and high calibre teacher who has exceptional subject knowledge in music to join our energetic and dynamic team. You will ensure that the quality of teaching and learning in your classroom is outstanding, keeping up to date with curricular developments and helping to ensure that the subject is popular and successful within the option choices. You will engage and inspire our students in the subject allowing them to make outstanding progress and achieve strong results. Extra-curricular activity will be very important to you, so that as many students as possible benefit from the wider opportunities that music can give. Our school is very committed to the arts, and you will be an important part of our success in this area.
We will support and develop you to become an outstanding teacher and provide working partnership opportunities with other schools and departments. We are an aspirational, reflective and creative learning community where all adults are learners who take risks in order to achieve excellent results for our students.
Please note -the school is currently undergoing an expansion and staff may be expected to teach a second subject.
We look forward to your application.
To obtain further information or for an informal discussion please contact Mehz Karim on
020 8928 3548 /email m.karim@littleilford.org
There is no closing date.
We will shortlist and interview as soon as we have a strong field- applicants are advised to apply sooner rather than later
Little Ilford School, Rectory Road, Manor Park, London E12 6JB
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful candidates.
Attached documents
About Little Ilford School
- Little Ilford School
- Rectory Road, Manor Park
- London
- E12 6JB
- United Kingdom
Little Ilford School is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational, 11-16 secondary school, situated in the London Borough of Newham. The school, which was founded in 1957, has 1,500 students on roll.
Little Ilford School is part of the Manor Park Schools Community Partnership, along with most of its partnership primary schools, and is a Lead Practitioner Learning Centre for the SSAT.
Headteacher
Andrew Finn
Values and vision
Courage, Commitment, Compassion
Founded in 1957, Little Ilford School is a successful mixed multicultural 11-16 secondary school with 12 forms of entry situated in the London Borough of Newham.
We are a high achieving school described by Ofsted as good in their last inspection in 2022. We are a proud, diverse and celebratory institution that enjoys an excellent reputation and strives to be an outward facing school working closely with our community.
We are culturally rich with an ethos based around praise, support and caring for each other. We have very high aspirations for the students whatever their personal or social challenges; we systematically remove all barriers to learning to ensure that all of our students can fulfil their potential and leave us as fully active citizens of the Manor Park community.
Most of our students begin at LIS well below national standards but achieve in line with, or exceed, national standards when they leave in Year 11; our students achieve well above national rates of progression. We expect all of our students to excel.
We intend to ensure that our students achieve even higher rates of progress and outcomes through high quality learning and teaching and a curriculum that provides opportunities for all students to excel. Our school vision:
- We take ownership of our learning and aspirations so that we fulfil our unique potential;
- We promote equality and respect so that we feel safe, looked after and valued;
- We embrace challenge and change so that we have the confidence to broaden our horizons;
- We improve and achieve through resilience and self-reflection so that we are role models within the local community and the wider world.
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