Head of Art & Design
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2025
- Apply by:
- 28 October 2024
Job overview
The role
Wimbledon High School is looking for a dynamic and innovative teacher to provide inspirational leadership to our Art Department.
As Head of Art and Design, you will contribute to the strategic direction and development of the department, preparing a plan that will ensure the department continues to be innovative, creative, successful and ambitious, inspiring a love of the subject in our students.
You will also lead and manage department staff, promoting excellence in teaching and learning that will help students to develop their potential within Art and Design. This role will be key to ensuring that we deliver a high quality academic and creative experience to all students within a safe, well-supported, well-resourced and well-looked after environment.
You will be a positive and enthusiastic teacher, with excellent subject knowledge in Art and Design (especially in Fine Art). You will possess previous experience of teaching Art from KS3-KS5, including GCSE and A Level. Strong leadership, self-management and decision-making skills are essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively with others.
The Art and Design Department
Our thriving Art and Design Department has an excellent reputation for delivering a progressively challenging, stimulating and fun art education throughout the school. The department consists of three full-time teachers, one part-time teacher and a technician, as well as a fixed-term PT Digital Assistant.
We occupy the top floor of the STEAM Tower, which comprises three studios, printmaking facilities, a departmental office and resources rooms, as well as a wonderful central library/gallery area.
About the School
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 28th October 2024.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 7th November 2024.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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