Ark St Alban’s Academy
Lead Teacher of Music
Start date: September 2022
Location: Conybere Street, Birmingham B12 0YH
Reports to: Relevant senior leader
Salary: Ark Main Scale (£26,358) or Ark Upper Pay Scale (£45,203) plus TLR 2b
Closing date: 10.00am on Monday 13 June 2022
Ark St Alban’s Academy is seeking a leader for its music department as it seeks to rapidly expand its music provision.
About the role:
Pupils enjoy and make rapid progress in music at Key Stage Three, where each class has one lesson of music every week, and at Key Stage Four we have been consistently able to offer a rigorous GCSE music curriculum. Our music offer is developed in collaboration with music specialists from across the Ark network. The successful candidate would have the opportunity to lead the implementation of Music Mastery, an innovative trust-wide and knowledge rich curriculum at Ark St Alban’s Academy. In addition to the curriculum, specialists across the network also work together to provide an enriching extra-curricular offer for our pupils. As a result, the successful candidate would be able to lead pupils from our community in being able to create, practice and perform music with their peers from across the region and across the country.
We are also seeking a candidate who can plan strategically and develop an ambitious and robust enrichment offer. This enrichment offer would provide every pupil with the opportunity to learn an instrument and to practise music, and it would complement and support a developed curriculum offer in ensuring that an increasing number of pupils were able to confidently choose to pursue music at GCSE, and eventually at A-Level.
We believe that music is place where pupils can find joy and can find their passion. We know that the habits of practice, perseverance and teamwork which are required to become an expert musician, are the habits that all pupils need the opportunity to develop in order to succeed. We also recognise that the music curriculum is academically rigorous; it is rich with meaningful cross-curricular links and it is valued as a qualification at Key Stage Four and at Key Stage Five by the prestigious universities we want all of our pupils to aspire to.
View the full job description and person specification here.
About us:
At Ark St Alban’s Academy, we are supporting all of our pupils to climb the mountain to university.
We believe that success in a university preparatory curriculum is the best way to make sure that all of our pupils can make meaningful choices about their future when they leave us. As such, we teach an academically rigorous curriculum and provide pupils with both the pastoral support and the excellent teaching that they need in order to thrive.
As a Church of England School, we believe that climbing the mountain to university is the best way to challenge all of our pupils to fulfil their God-given talents. We also recognise our role in addressing inequality by ensuring that pupils drawn from a low-income community have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.
How to apply:
For an informal, conversation about the role please contact Katie Roberts on 0121 446 1323 or katie.roberts@arkstalbans.org.
Please submit your application online by visiting www.arkstalbans.org/vacancies. The deadline for applications is 10am on Monday 13 June 2022.
Ark value diversity and are committed to safeguarding and promoting child welfare. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and any other relevant employment checks.