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Art and Design Teacher - Full-time

Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, Tenterden

  • Ref:KCC886-5408-413T
  • Posted:24/03/2017
  • Pay:MPS/UPS
  • Start Date:Sep 2017
  • App Close Date:17/04/2017 at 23:45
  • Interviews:Week commencing 17th April 2017

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Bring your enthusiasm for your subject to the students at Homewood School and Sixth Form in the Wealden Town of Tenterden.

You are a qualified teacher keen to teach Art and Design and Technology. Experience of teaching Product Design GCSE would be an advantage as well as the ability to teach other areas of art specialisms (photography, fine art, graphics, ceramics or textiles). You will be working as part of a large successful team and excellent communication skills will be essential.

Homewood School, Tenterden is an oversubscribed progressive and innovative school set in a 55 acre site midway between London and the Channel Ports. Tenterden is described as ‘The Jewel of the Weald’. Its fine High Street must rank amongst the most attractive in the Country with historic houses, shops and restaurants separated from the road by wide expanses of tree-lined grass verges. Homewood School has an excellent reputation for engagement in curriculum development, personalisation and welfare management

It’s a competitive market out there and we want to know what it is that makes you the one for us. Detail your successes in your completed application form and supporting letter and get us excited about you! 

In return you will enjoy a unique working environment in the heart of the Weald of Kent, discounts and offers with Kent Rewards.   All teaching staff are provided with an Apple device and there is also a nursery based on the school site which offers discounts to Homewood Staff.

An application form and more information can be accessed directly from Sally or Karen on vacancies@homewood.kent.sch.uk or from www.homewood-school.co.uk.  If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to call us.

Closing date for applications: 17th April 2017

Information about the school

Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a mixed 11 – 18 wide ability school with Academy status with 2000 students including 350 in the Sixth Form. We are part of Tenterden Schools’ Trust working in collaboration with local primary schools and nurseries serving the Wealden town of Tenterden and the surrounding villages. The school is situated on the edge of Tenterden and enjoys a large semi-rural site overlooking open countryside. Home Farm Nursery is based in the grounds of Homewood School.

Homewood has excellent facilities for all its students and our specialisms in Performing Arts, Applied Learning and the Rural Dimension underpin our approaches to learning which are designed to raise achievement across the whole student body. We aim to maintain and develop the cultural aspirations of the school community in line with our priorities of “belonging” and “respect” and offer a broad range of curriculum opportunities in all subject areas. This also extends into the local community through partnerships across primary, secondary and higher education sectors as well as non-educational community partners.

Homewood provides a secure and caring learning environment in which all students can flourish and succeed. It is a school renowned for its support for students’ wellbeing. Heads of Community provide academic and pastoral leadership for the students in their Community, supported by dedicated form tutors, a Family Liaison Officer and Assistant Head of Community. A range of other staff including counsellors and a qualified nurse help and support the students through their time at Homewood. Consideration and respect for each other is central to our work and we are justly proud of our students’ achievements.

I hope you will be inspired to submit an application to join us. If you are successful, you can be assured of a very warm welcome and a real opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the young people of this part of Kent.

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Mr J Single
  • Address:Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LT
  • Telephone: (01580) 764222
  • Email: info@homewood.kent.sch.uk

Fax: (01580) 766267

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.