Overview
The role provides leadership of Music in a high performing and high-profile department, working under the Director of Creative and Performing Arts. The teaching and provision for Music at the Archer Academy is held with high regard, enabling outstanding opportunities and outcomes for our students. Creativity and the opportunity to inspire our students' creativity is core to the values of the school. The role of Head of Music is to secure an outstanding music curriculum, enhanced by a wide range of extracurricular opportunities that enable students to flourish and embrace their talents.
Music Programme
The Music programme focuses on developing an ambitious offer which stretches and challenges all of our students. The successful candidate must be a strong performer in their own right, in the classroom and/or other platforms, with theoretical knowledge to support students’ learning. The ability to lead by example is at the heart of our ethos, and the candidate must be a role model for the department and students.
Curriculum & Achievements
Our curriculum design promotes and protects opportunities for the arts from Year 7, with enhanced provision in Year 9 and across the GCSE choices process. GCSE results are consistently outstanding. In 2024, Music GCSE results saw 46% of students marked 7+, and 100% of students were 5+. In a high achieving school examining in the top 7% of the country, Music was one of the top 3 achieving subjects achieving to target, last academic year. We currently teach from the OCR GCSE Exam Board.
Extracurricular & Opportunities
Alongside the curriculum, a rich extracurricular offer further supports our students in realising their potential. Opportunities include Choirs, Orchestra, Jazz Band, as well as enrichments like MAC Composition and Theory Clubs. Our students regularly partake in a variety of performance opportunities including the East Finchley Festival, Whole School Musical (100+ pupils every year), St Jude's Proms, Archella (our very own summer festival) and many other regular school performances.
Facilities
The school has 5 practice rooms and two specialist classrooms, including one teaching room with electric keyboards and one with 16 MACs. Recently we secured our final round of fundraising to build an additional studio performance space to be shared across the CPA team. We break ground this summer on the new build.
Role & Status
This post offers the unique opportunity to play a key role in further development of our curriculum and extracurricular Music provision in an outstanding school.
Contract
This post is offered on a part time basis - 0.8. Please discuss our flexible working opportunities with us.
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