Teacher of Music (part time, January 2025 start)
Colfe's School
Greenwich
- New
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 16 September 2024
Job overview
We seek an inspirational and dedicated musician to join our friendly and highly successful senior school department in January 2025. The post is part-time and 0.5 over 3 days or 0.6 over 4 days will both be considered.
We welcome applications from both ECTs and experienced teachers. If an ECT were appointed to the post, a high level of structured support and guidance (meeting statutory requirements) would be provided to ensure progression towards the successful completion of their induction period. We pride ourselves on the level of support and care given to teachers in the early stages of their careers.
The successful applicant will:
· Be an outstanding classroom practitioner with a passion for teaching Music;
· Teach Music across the full age range of the Senior School from Year 7 to Y13;
· Direct ensembles and play a full part in the co-curricular life of the department;
· Be able to teach and enthuse pupils using a range of methods and media
· Have good organisational skills
The Music Department consists of the Director of Music, two other Music Teachers, a Musician-in-Residence, a Music Administrator and more than twenty Visiting Music Teachers. The Music Department is housed in its own dedicated suite of well-appointed rooms, which include two teaching rooms, music technology room, practice rooms, office, kitchen and recital hall.
In Years 7-8 all students study Music within the curriculum. In Year 9 Music becomes an optional subject and students receive four lessons per fortnight. We follow the Edexcel specifications at GCSE and A-Level Music, where take-up and results are both very good. Many of our students are also members of high-quality choirs or orchestras outside school and a number of students go on to study Music at university or conservatoires.
The department runs a comprehensive programme of co-curricular activities including choirs, orchestras, chamber and pop music coaching, wind, brass and jazz bands. There are many performance opportunities for pupils at Colfe’s ranging from high-profile events in external venues (including recent concerts at St Alfege’s Church, Greenwich, Southwark Cathedral and St James, Piccadilly) to informal platform concerts and assemblies. We have formed a partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire and host a series of recitals to showcase their talented students. Music Scholarships are offered at Year 7 and Year 12 entry.
Teachers appointed to Colfe’s are expected to contribute to the co-curricular life of the community and will become part of a caring, purposeful and committed community of outstandingly supportive colleagues.
Teaching staff at Colfe’s enjoy a range of benefits including:
· Colfe’s highly competitive salary scale
· Longer holidays than the maintained sector
· Free lunches
· Free membership of Colfe’s Leisure Centre
· Free on-site parking
· Excellent professional development opportunities
· Cycle to Work scheme
· Annual flu vaccination
· A programme of staff wellbeing activities
Application procedure
The recruitment process will require all applicants to complete an application form, accompanied by a letter of application, current CV and details of two referees, who will be contacted prior to interview, in accordance with the School’s Safer Recruitment procedures. There will be an interview, task and lesson observation for short listed candidates.
The application may be submitted either electronically, to: recruitment@colfes.com or by post, to: Mrs A Ross, Human Resources, Colfe’s School, Horn Park Lane, London SE12 8AW
Applications should be sent as soon as possible and by 11.00 AM on Monday 16 September at the latest. Colfe’s reserves the right to appoint to this post before the closing date if necessary and we would therefore very much encourage early applications.
Colfe’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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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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