Teacher of Music
The Lowry Academy
Salford
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- Salary:
- United Learning Pay Scale (Competitive with MPS/UPS)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 September 2024
Job overview
Post Title: Teacher of Music
Start Date: As soon as possible
Hours of Work: Part Time/ Permanent, 0.4FTE – 2 days per week
Salary Grade: United Learning Pay Scale (Competitive with MPS/UPS)
Responsible to: Head of Department
Conditions of Service: United Learning Contract
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Are you passionate about teaching Music?
Join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at The Lowry Academy, where passion meets purpose in shaping the future of young minds. Be part of one of the country’s fastest improving schools – THE most improved school in Salford.
Following our most recent Ofsted inspection visit, we have been awarded Good, across all areas, reflecting our commitment to providing a high-quality education and nurturing environment for our students.
We are looking for a passionate Teacher of Music to join our supportive team at The Lowry Academy.
The Role
The purpose of this role is to provide learning activities to all ages of students in order to develop an interest and ability for expression, to develop an understanding, and using different methods to deliver a successful course with patience and tact with each student to meet their goals. To ensure the outstanding provision and inclusive practice for all children with additional needs across the school, thereby facilitating the best possible academic and social outcomes.
The post holder will report directly to Head of Department and will work alongside other staff members, to ensure quality inclusive provision for students across the organisation.
At The Lowry Academy we have high expectations and believe every single child can achieve. Our staff are highly professional, and we are relentlessly ensuring those high standards are maintained so teachers can teach, and students can learn. We prepare children for future success and ask students to live our values of Aspiration, Respect, Confidence, Creativity and Resilience. To maintain this strong culture, we have non-negotiable expectations:
· All the students arrive on time for their lessons. Students must arrive on time to be admitted to the lesson.
· All students are expected to have full equipment for every lesson.
· All students must think hard and work hard in lessons. Students are not allowed to opt out of their learning.
· The school has a straightforward approach to disruption to lessons. We follow a warn-remove policy where any student who disrupts learning, having been previously warned and given the opportunity to correct their behaviour, including opting out of work, is removed from the lesson.
· The Academy has zero tolerance for any act of defiance or disrespect towards staff or other students.
What can we offer?
· Competitive Teachers Pay Range, United Learning Trust’s Pay Policy applies.
· The opportunity to save money across hundreds of major retailers, through Perkbox.
· Disruption-free learning: a culture where teachers can teach, and students can learn.
· 5 INSET days per year +3 additional planning days each term, dedicated to subject knowledge development and planning/resource development to support in planning, resourcing, moderation and most importantly, workload.
· The benefits of working in a successfully multi-academy trust and full access to ongoing CPD
· Access to our full programme of teacher development CPD and coaching as appropriate.
· Westfield Health Cash Plan
For further information about this exciting role please download the attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please complete the application form.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
Why Us?
We are a caring yet ambitious academy at the heart of our local community. We provide all our students with opportunities to strive toward academic excellence and develop interpersonal skills in order to make a positive contribution to society. We have a calm and supportive environment characterised by respectful relationships between staff and students. Through our clear focus on delivering excellent academic standards for all students, we put high-quality teaching and learning at the core of our approach.
In joining The Lowry Academy, you will also be joining United Learning, a successful Multi Academy Trust. United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more thorough sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum, and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff’s wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call, the best in everyone.
The Lowry Academy is committed to creating the best place to work, where all staff can reach their full potential. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation. We look forward to receiving your application.
The Lowry is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its students. This responsibility necessitates a child protection policy and robust procedures. Each student’s welfare is of paramount importance. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be read on our website.
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About The Lowry Academy
The Lowry Academy is a popular 11 -16 school in Little Hulton, Salford. We take our name from the local artist L.S Lowry, who is famous for paintings which capture scenes of industrial England. As part of United Learning, we aim to bring out ‘the best in everyone’ and we continuously strive to ensure that students and staff here have every opportunity to do so. Our values are Aspiration, Respect, Resilience, Confidence and Creativity. Our students decided on these; they are what matters most to them.
At The Lowry Academy, we believe that our priority is to help our children learn. We place this at the heart of every decision that we make and ask ourselves: will this improve student learning? We believe that all students are capable of making progress and attaining the highest level, whatever their starting point. We do not make excuses for our students: we firmly believe that there are no barriers to achievement that cannot be overcome by a determined and resilient student and a supportive school team.
We have a constant focus on high standards from our students whether in uniform, behaviour, punctuality, communication or manners. We are relentless in our pursuit of the small things that we believe have a big impact on our school culture and environment and our students’ attitude to learning.
The Lowry Academy is very proud to be a multicultural, multi-faith community. We celebrate the diversity of our staff and student population and we encourage our students to celebrate their heritage but equally to be proud British citizens. We believe that having an understanding and appreciation of British culture and values is essential for our students in preparing them to participate successfully in British society.
The bedrock on which our school community is built is the excellent relationships between staff and students and between students themselves. When you visit our school you will notice the positivity and mutual respect that is shown to all members of the school community. We believe that respect should always be given and that all members of the school community should act with humility and understanding at all times. We believe in finding a win-win solution to every situation and that the focus of every conversation should be learning.
Visit our website to find out more or contact us to visit at ask.lowry@lowryacademy.org.uk.
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