Visiting Music Teacher (Guitar)
Newton Prep School
Wandsworth, London SW8
- New
- Salary:
- £54.60 per hour, working up to two days a week
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Start date:
- January 2024
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2024
Job overview
Newton Prep is a thriving school with outstanding facilities, catering for over 650 pupils, aged 3 to 13, Nursery to Year 8. We are unashamedly ambitious for our pupils and want them to achieve their academic potential whilst also engaging in sport, art, music and drama. Our school is conveniently situated close to Battersea Park and Queenstown Road stations and the new Battersea Power Station.
Music plays a central role in the life of Newton Prep. The Music Department has truly first-class facilities, including a 108-seat Recital Hall with live streaming and recording facilities, an 800sqm teaching space for regular class music lessons, choir and ensemble rehearsals, plus a recording studio and practice rooms. Pupils are taught by specialist teachers from the very beginning of their time with us, right through to the end of Year 8, with a number of very talented musicians going on to their senior schools with music scholarships and exhibitions. In addition to its full-time staff, part-time Visiting Music Teachers make an invaluable contribution with over 56% of pupils currently receiving individual lessons each week.
We are seeking a Visiting Guitar Teacher to work up to two days a week from January 2024
Visiting Music Teachers are self-employed and invoice parents directly at the beginning of each term and are expected to liaise with parents to arrange lessons, payment and on progress.
We are looking for someone who can, through committed, skilled and outstanding one-to-one teaching inspire our pupils to learn to play their instrument, develop as musicians and to participate and perform at solo recitals and school concerts.
The ideal candidate will have performing experience in their own right, supported by a relevant music qualification at degree level, plus experience in teaching groups and individual pupils aged 3-13, including in rehearsing and leading a guitar ensemble and choosing appropriate repertoires for performances throughout the year.
For full details please see the attached Candidate Brief, which is also available to download from the school’s website: www.newtonprepschool.co.uk
To apply, please submit your CV, a cover letter (which does not exceed more than one side of A4) and a video (not exceeding more than three minutes), explaining your suitability for the post. This should reach the HR Department at: hrassistant@newtonprep.co.uk by the closing date: 9.00am on Thursday 5th December 2024.
Interviews and lesson observations will take place during the 1st week of January 2025. Candidates invited to interview will be required to complete the School’s Application Form, which can be downloaded from our website www.newtonprepschool.co.uk.
If you have any queries about the application process, please contact the HR Department on 020 7720 4091 extension 1255.
The successful candidate will be subject to child protection screening, including a DBS and Barred List check. The School will carry out online searches on all successful candidates as part of the process of assessing suitability.
Newton Prep is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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About Newton Prep School
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In a London landscape crowded with prep schools, Newton Prep stands out. The school, founded in 1991, has an unbeatable combination of size and eclecticism, coupled with extraordinary facilities and outside spaces. Its position at the heart of Central London’s most burgeoning development, Newton is a short walk away from the Nine Elms to Battersea riverfront. This hosts the bustling new ‘town’ around the rebuilt Battersea Power Station; a new extension of the Northern Line tube now means the school is within five minutes of three stations.
When arriving, visitors and prospective parents always comment on Newton Prep children: they are well-educated, of course, but noticeably curious, kind and articulate. Above all, in this modern world, they are equipped with the best of British values: pupils are encouraged to think for - and be - themselves.
Academic success is central to all that is taught. More than that, however, the school ensures children are equipped with a sense of self, resilience and hopefulness. We encourage children to think outside the curriculum. Whether it’s piano lessons, judo or Boggle, children need ways of engaging: we aim for our Newton Prep children to enter adolescence feeling that they already have more to contribute than just academic achievements. Yes, we need to get them into the right schools, but not at the total expense of their well-being, character and love of learning.
Inspiring a love of learning is central to Newton Prep’s offering. With a huge all-weather pitch capable of supporting four fixtures at a time, a 120-seat recital hall, a music technology suite, recording studio, 300 seat auditorium, three gymnasiums, bustling art studios, dance studios, two libraries and three hands-on science labs, children are encouraged to “do” as well as “learn”. We have an oasis of a garden where our children perform Shakespeare, hunt for mini-beasts and conduct scientific experiments.
Despite the excellence of their education, Newton Prep children are notable for their lack of arrogance; there is no sense of entitlement here. The kindness and generosity shown by the pupils towards their peers is remarkable; we are particularly proud of the engagement between the older children and our youngest pupils.
This spirit of community is also built into the Newton Diploma, our revolutionary humanities curriculum for Years 7 and 8. This is a cross-curricular, rigorous and exciting programme which allows pupils to explore links between subjects, extend initiatives for service and leadership, and breathe real fire into their intellectual curiosity.
We are not a blazers-and-boaters kind of school. As a school only thirty years young, we are not limited to looking back at the past to inform what we do in the future. We focus all our present energies on ensuring a bright future for our bright children. We want Newton Prep children to enjoy their precious childhood years.
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