Teacher of Drama (Maternity Cover) - Fixed Term

Mascalls Academy , Paddock Wood

• Ref:KCC886-5439-240T
• Posted:22/05/2025
• Pay:MPS/UPS based on experience
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:02/06/2025 at 23:45
• Interviews:TBC

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Are you a dynamic and passionate Drama teacher ready to ignite creativity and inspire a love of performance in young minds? Do you thrive in a supportive, collaborative environment where teamwork and professional growth are key? If so, Mascalls Academy wants to hear from you!

We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven Teacher of Drama to join our thriving department and help foster a passion for the performing arts across the academy. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to inspire and challenge our students, shaping their confidence, communication skills, and appreciation for the power of drama. Importantly, our performing arts are instrumental in our Inclusion strategy, working to engage, support, and drive participation and enjoyment of learning for all students.

Why join us?

• Thriving Drama Department: You will be part of a well-resourced and dynamic Drama department where the performing arts are highly valued and play a key role in the academy's inclusive ethos.
• Instrumental in Inclusion: You will contribute directly to our Inclusion strategy by using drama to engage students, provide support, and foster a love of learning across the curriculum.
• Collaborative Culture: Our department has a strong culture of teamwork, where knowledge sharing, mutual support, and a shared vision are at the heart of everything we do.
• Professional Development: At Mascalls Academy, you will benefit from extensive opportunities for professional growth, including access to shared best practices across the wider Leigh Academies Trust network.
• Fantastic Resources: We have excellent facilities that enable you to deliver creative and engaging drama lessons, supported by the latest teaching tools and technology.

What we’re looking for:

• A passionate Drama teacher with the ability to inspire and engage students in all aspects of drama and performance.
• A subject specialist who thrives in a collaborative team environment, sharing ideas and supporting colleagues to achieve collective success.
• An understanding of how the performing arts can be used to promote inclusion, engagement, and positive learning experiences for all students.
• A drive to develop professionally and take full advantage of the excellent opportunities for career progression within Leigh Academies Trust.

If you are excited about the opportunity to shape the future of drama education, contribute to an inclusive learning environment, and make a lasting impact on students, we would love to hear from you!

Note: Whilst the position is offered on a maternity cover basis initially of up to one year, every effort will be made to offer a substantive position thereafter, either at Mascalls Academy or within the wider family of academies across Leigh Academies Trust. The central Recruitment Team will keep in touch with you throughout your contract to discuss options available to you.

Mascalls Academy is a very special place to work and pre-application visits or phone calls are both encouraged and welcomed. If you would like to arrange to discuss the role with a member of the team, please contact Amy Wenban, Recruitment Advisor at amy.wenban@latrust.org.uk

Information about the school

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Mascalls Academy community. As a successful and popular academy, we provide our students with the opportunities within the classroom and beyond to develop into young people who will contribute positively to our local, national and global communities.

At Mascalls Academy, we offer an incredibly wide curriculum, there are twenty seven different subjects being taught at GCSE level and twenty nine subjects at A level. We are also proud to be an International Baccalaureate World School offering the Middle Years Programme in Years 7-9 which is designed to develop happy, inquisitive, rounded, independent, globally aware and resilient young people. Our co-curriculum offers an incredible eighteen lunchtime clubs and twenty one after school clubs alongside teams in football, netball, rugby, volleyball and many more.

We achieve academic excellence and promote the Arts, our Creative Arts National Area of Excellence develops the skills and confidence our students need to succeed through visual art, dance, drama and music. There really is an opportunity for everyone to be happy and succeed here and that underpins the very core of our purpose.

Whilst our academy is large, we support our students by breaking it down into smaller schools, known as colleges. Each college is roughly the size of the average primary school and is headed by a large and dedicated leadership team devoted to the academic and pastoral care of the students within it. We prioritise mental health and well being alongside academic achievement through our on-site provision of Place2be, offering full time individual and group therapy sessions for those who need it. In partnership with parents we work closely through the seven-year journey from the very first day to the confident, knowledgeable and disciplined individuals leaving our academy as young adults.

We have incredibly high expectations of behaviour. Our students are happy, they are polite and show respect. Our behaviour systems promote a discipline within our students that prepares them fully for the world beyond the academy. As an academy, as a community we achieve academic excellence, develop strength of individual character supported by our culture of aspiration and celebrating success. Our rewards system recognises the success of our students through achievement points, Golden Tickets, half colours and full colours. Achievement and progress are rewarded within every lesson.

What underpins all that we do is that we truly care, Mascalls Academy really is a community in the truest sense. Developing successful and happy young people requires a team, and strong and supportive communication between all members of our community is essential to ensure this. Our students are balanced and compassionate young people who care for one another and have pride in what we all achieve each and every day.

Thank you for reading and I hope we will be welcoming you to the Mascalls Academy community in the future.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Elene Redelinghuys
• Address:Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6LT
• Telephone: 01634 412 273
• Email: talent@latrust.org.uk

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