Teacher of Music - Part-time

The Folkestone School for Girls, Folkestone

Ref:KCC886-5437-190T
Posted:30/03/2023
Pay:MPS
Start Date:September 2023
App Close Date:20/04/2023 at 12:00
Interviews:Short listed candidates notified by 24th Apr

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Teacher of Music

Part time 0.4-0.6 FTE

Required from September 2023

We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what students get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.

At the Folkestone School for Girls, students do not complete an excessive number of qualifications. This allows them not only time to focus efforts on achieving the absolute best grades within these, but also time to participate in our huge array of co-curricular activities in school and/or pursue interests & hobbies out of school. There is time to spend with friends and family and time, too, to just be a child. A justifiable balance between intellect and character.

We seek to appoint an outstanding classroom practitioner on a part time basis for September 2023 to join our small but vibrant and successful Music Team. We can offer a thriving department – our students are intelligent, curious, driven to do well and keen to take part in the wider opportunities that Music can bring. At the school we currently run four choirs, two rock bands, an ensemble, and an orchestra. This on top of the usual music lessons, peripatetic lessons, big school production and supporting other school wide events such as the Remembrance Day service for our 200 strong Cadet Force Contingent. We have a full recording studio with Pro-Tools, and a dedicated room for live recording. 5 practice rooms, each with a piano and themed instruments, and computers for students with their own MIDI keyboards and access to Soundtrap and Flat.Io.

You must be a qualified music teacher who is passionate about teaching music in all its forms. You should have a real desire to get our girls performing proficiently – just for the fun of it! You must also be keen to engage, stretch and challenge students of all ages and abilities in this 11-18 selective grammar school and be prepared to contribute to the wider community. We welcome applications from ECT’s for this role also.

You will need great people skills, resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG students.

You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website.

Details of this position and an application form are available:

on our website www.folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

or by email: kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

Only applications submitted on the schools or Kent Teach application form will be considered.

Closing Date: 20^th April 2023 at Midday

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by Monday 24^th April 2023.

The Folkestone School for Girls is committed to the protection and safety of its students. Applicants should be aware that we use the Disclosure and Barring Service to assess suitability for positions of trust. Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education Legislation. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Information about the school

The Folkestone School for Girls is driven by the unshakeable belief that exam results are what you get; they do not define who you are and will play only a part in shaping the person you become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do! We want all girls to have the opportunity to explore and excel, to learn and to grow - not only in the classroom but beyond it. Alongside our unique personal development and character education programme, the FSGBacc, our international outlook is also at the heart of what we do and equally vital to our ethos; we want our girls to know that as human beings there is much more that unites us than divides us.

We believe that our curriculum should not just interest and inspire the girls, not just reflect and respond and be relevant to the world we live in but that we need to be much more ambitious; that the curriculum we teach should help to change the world for the better: a curriculum that teaches our girls to value themselves, value each other, value the world we live in and the world around them. A curriculum for values. A curriculum for empathy. A curriculum for wisdom.

A curriculum to change their world. A curriculum to change the world.

Our ambition for our school is to be the best in the world; nothing less. To be world leading and world changing; to know the whole child/every child and have a curriculum which develops the whole child/every child.

Our ambition for our girls is that they leave us after seven years well qualified and well rounded; intellect and character. They will feel ten feet tall, be bold and spectacular. They will have the knowledge, the skills, the drive, the courage, the wisdom, the optimism and the values to change the world for the better.

Intellect & character. This is our curriculum. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. We are extremely proud of it.

Come join us.

Job Contact Information

Name:Kathryn Whawell
Address:The Folkestone School For Girls, Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3RB
Telephone: 01303 251125
Email: kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk

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