Visiting Music Teacher (Cello and Drum)
Bromley High School
Bromley
- New
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
Bromley High School is looking for Visiting Music Teachers in both Cello and Drum to join our thriving Music Department.
You will teach individual pupils throughout the school age range (Year 3 - Year 13), tailoring lessons to suit the abilities of each individual pupil. Depending on the interests and skills of the appointee, there may also be opportunities to coach ensembles and to take part in school performances.
You will be an outstanding musician, an effective communicator, and an inspiring teacher, who is able to teach from beginner to post-grade-8 standard.
You will be engaged on a self-employed basis (term time only) and will be responsible for creating your own timetable in line with school guidelines, to ensure weekly lessons of 30 minutes are taught to your pupils. The number of pupils will vary due to demand but is likely to initially be between half and one day per week. You are required to invoice parents of your pupils directly. Visiting Music Teachers all charge the same tuition fee, which is agreed annually and kept in line with the neighbouring music service: from January 2025, the agreed rate is £225 for a set of 10 30-minute lessons.
Music at Bromley High School
Our ‘All Steinway’ Music School is housed in purpose-built accommodation with nine practice rooms, two large teaching rooms, an octagonal Recital Room and an iMac Music Technology Room. A variety of choirs and ensembles rehearse weekly and there are regular concerts and a major annual concert at a London Venue. A Music Festival held each year enables all musicians to compete for the prestigious Music of the Year Award and runs alongside a series of workshops delivered by professional players.
The Music and Drama departments work closely together on annual productions, which have included Edward Scissorhands, High School Musical, a musical based on the life of Mary Quant which was taken on Tour to New York, and our most recent production of Made in Dagenham. There are regular music tours, recently to France, Belgium, USA, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic.
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Applications must be received by 8.00am Monday 6th January 2025.
Interviews will take place week commencing 13th January 2025.
Please note that early applications are encouraged and the position may be closed sooner in the event of sufficient suitable applications being received.
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 will apply to this post.
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About Bromley High School
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Bromley High School has been offering an exceptional education to bright and talented girls since 1883.
A leading GDST and HMC girls’ school with superb facilities spread across a leafy 25-acre site, Bromley High School educates approximately 870 girls from pre-prep to Sixth Form.
The school’s academic results are consistently excellent earning a rare ‘Exceptional’ rating for Learning and Achievement from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate. Achievement at A-level in 2022 was 34% A*s, 68% A*-A and 91% A*-B.
Bromley High girls are resilient and well-rounded young women participating with enthusiasm and commitment in music, drama, art, sport, Duke of Edinburgh and an overabundant range of activities – and where they have interest or talent or enthusiasm, it is nurtured so that they learn to excel.
As the first all girls’ All-Steinway School in the world, the school continually invests in the music department, and offers its own Musician in Residence and specialist music wing. In 2020, the school launched a Steinway Scholarship and Mentoring Scheme offer the winning recipient coaching sessions throughout the year, a masterclass from a Steinway artist at Steinway Hall, private lessons with a Steinway artist and a solo recital at Steinway Hall. In 2021, the school’s first ever Steinway Scholar won a place to read Music at Oxford.
Sport is also exceptional: with 25 acres of top class facilities including a beautiful pool, new fitness suite, sports hall, gym, track and floodlit courts and pitches, providing the perfect environment in which to develop girls’ love of sport. Bromley High School has achieved huge successes in sport at regional and national level. The school’s under 16 team reached the National Hockey finals and were placed 3rd in the country and in 2021, Year 12 pupil Evie Davis won two gold medals with Team GB at the European Swimming Championships.
Pastoral Care is of paramount importance at Bromley High and the school offers an outstanding supportive and caring pastoral system. In 2021, the excellence of the school’s pastoral care was recognised by the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
Bromley High School provides a beautiful and vibrant environment where bright girls flourish.
The Girls’ Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools).
Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
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