About This Role
The Role
You will be instrumental in our mission to provide every scholar a great education and real choices in life, regardless of their background. A passionate practitioner, you will deliver high-quality, rigorous instruction that drive achievement and inspire a love of learning Music that extends beyond the classroom.
Key Responsibilities
● To support, develop and lead after school Music enrichment clubs such as Orchestra, Choir and Student Band
● To support whole school events including, but not limited to, Prize Evening, AGFS Cabaret, School Musical, Black History Month Concert and the Christmas Concert.
● To support KS4 Music lessons offering 1:1 and small group tuition as directed by the Head of Music.
● Some teaching of KS3 Music for the right candidate.
● Working with peripatetic teachers to ensure our scholars are receiving bespoke support outside of their curriculum lessons, and delivery of music lessons as appropriate
● Manage behaviour effectively to create a safe, respectful and nurturing environment so that scholars can focus on learning.
● Work collaboratively with both school and network colleagues as a committed team member, building successful, high performing teams.
● Participate actively throughout the school and network, by attending relevant meetings and CPD.
● Supporting the school with lunchtime and after school duties.
● Supporting a tutor group as directed by the form tutor.
● Work with colleagues, scholars and families to develop a strong school community.
● Follow all school rules and procedures.
How is Ark Greenwich different?
• We are part of the Ark family of schools and benefit accordingly from outstanding networking and career opportunities and first-class CPD.
• Staff wellbeing is one of our main priorities. We provide breakfast for staff each morning, lunch for early careers staff and have a 6pm/weekend work-related communication cut off. We do not do knee jerk reactions, fads or last-minute deadlines. Our systems and processes for communication, marking and feedback and assessment are streamlined and the approaches we take are research led and based on our local context. We offer a WFH day to HoDs for curriculum design and also offer external marking of scripts to support workload. Our full approach to staff wellbeing/workload can be found here.
• This is a small school model (600 scholars aged 11-16) because we believe that our close-knit family community provides the optimum conditions for success.
• Scholar behaviour is exceptional with clearly defined and embedded routines. This means our teachers can focus their time on the things that matter – planning and delivering brilliant lessons for our scholars.
• This is a strict no excuses, no mobile phone school. Phones are not permitted onsite at all. Scholars wear business dress to prepare them for a professional career.
• Our curriculum is traditional and academic, and we do not take shortcuts to seek to boost our position in school league tables – we do not, for example, offer equivalencies such as Btecs or Vcerts..
• We put high-quality teaching at the heart of what we do. We are committed to providing staff with weekly high-quality training. We run coaching for staff who want to see rapid progress in their discipline. Live coaching and current best practice in the field of education is central to our approach.
• We don’t grade individual lessons or ask for lesson plans but we do place a primacy on curriculum design, independent learning and formative assessment.
• Our scholars enjoy a compulsory co-curricular program on a Wednesday afternoon which includes a strong focus on community volunteering and we facilitate 6 drop-down days per academic year ensuring scholars benefit from a range of life-enriching experiences.