Teacher of Music
Bishop Justus Church of England School
Bromley
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2018
Job overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented, highly motivated and enthusiastic teacher to join our successful music department on a long-term, temporary basis. We are looking to employ an inspirational individual that has a real passion for music. You will be able to enthuse, inspire and challenge students to produce the highest outcomes, contributing to a department that consistently achieves outstanding results. This position is suitable for someone who wants be involved in an active department and add to the huge variety of extra-curricular activities that are currently available for students.
The current music team is supported by a Music Technician, and fifteen peripatetic staff. The Music Department is housed in purpose-built, state of the art accommodation, and comprises two large main teaching spaces, two recording studios, a rehearsal room, four ‘break-out’ rooms and three peripatetic teaching rooms. The department is well equipped with keyboards, tuned and untuned percussion, sequencing software (Logic/Sibelius) and multi-track recording facilities.
As well as Key Stage 3 music, AQA GCSE is offered at Key Stage 4 alongside NCFE Music Technology and Edexcel A level Music and Music Technology are both run in the sixth form. Over one hundred students receive individual instrumental tuition from peripatetic staff each week and tuition for all types of instruments is available. In addition to the varied curriculum, frequent trips to musicals and classical concerts take place every term as well as an international tour.
Extra-curricular activities feature strongly during lunchtime and after school. Concerts are held throughout the year which include performances from the Jazz Band, Recorder Consort, Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Choir, Ukulele Orchestra, Chamber Choir, as well as smaller instrument specific groups. Many of our students also participate in the activities offered by the renowned Bromley Youth Music Trust with which we are an Accredited Music School. Performances in the local area also feature predominantly due to our reputation within the borough.
To apply please visit our website.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Bishop Justus Church of England School
- Bishop Justus Church of England School
- Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley
- Kent
- BR2 8HZ
- United Kingdom
ETHOS
Bishop Justus Church of England School seeks to serve its community in the name of the Church by ensuring excellent education in a Christian setting.
This 21st century school is a stimulating learning environment that prepares students for living and working in a rapidly changing world and encourages them to value the rich diversity of cultures they will encounter. Students and staff are empowered to achieve their highest possible in academic, creative and sporting achievement both as members of a community and as individuals. The school provides students and staff with many opportunities to explore the significance of Christian faith and values to their own lives and the issues facing people locally, nationally and globally. The school is committed to ensuring that the learning, vocational, and personal needs of all its students are met by its curriculum and extra-curricular activities.
The spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of the students is set in the context of Christian faith as taught and lived in the Church of England.
The school’s distinctive ethos and approach are offered to all members of the school community. Christian students find their faith affirmed and valued, and they meet and work with people who hold to other faiths and philosophies. All students encounter, in the lives of Christians in the school and in the school’s ethos, a living Christian witness which is neither coercive nor assertive but which welcomes and affirms. All members of the school’s community are equally valued and are encouraged to contribute their understandings and abilities to the school’s work and ethos. The beliefs of those from other religious traditions are treated with respect and openness.
We recognise that God is at the heart of the school, and so collective worship has a high priority in the school’s daily life. Collective worship is of high quality and planned to engage all members of the school’s community. The school is a place in which students and staff are cared for and where they learn to care for one other.
Bishop Justus Church of England School seeks to achieve its aims and develop its life and ethos….
“Through Faith and Learning”
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