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Teaching Vacancies; Clitheroe; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Teaching Vacancies is recruiting a dynamic art teacher for our thriving Ribblesdale School art department. You will teach across KS3 and KS4 and have the opportunity to deliver art across the full age range from 4–16 in a through-school setting.

The successful candidate will share our ambition for high standards in teaching and pupil progress, participate in enrichment activities, and uphold safeguarding commitments in line with school policy.

Qualifications

• Ability to teach art at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
• Ambitious approach to teaching and learning to achieve excellent results.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Responsibilities

• Teach art to pupils across KS3 and KS4.
• Deliver a varied and engaging art curriculum for ages 4–16.
• Contribute to enrichment activities and school-wide creative initiatives.

Skills

Art teaching

KS3/KS4

Curriculum delivery

Education

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic classroom practitioner who displays the passion, drive and energy to join our successful and well-established art department at Ribblesdale School. The department provides pupils with an array of opportunities within lesson time as well as extracurricular activities to enable them to develop their skills and knowledge and showcase their talents. This quality provision leads to a high number of pupils opting to study Art or Textiles at GCSE.

The department boasts large, recently refurbished art and textiles rooms, fully equipped with all the facilities necessary to deliver a varied and contemporary curriculum. The department is supported by a technician who works alongside the staff to assist in the delivery of curriculum activities, trips, gallery visits and workshops. Members of the department are unapologetically ambitious and avidly explore the latest educational research to inform and refine their curriculum and pedagogy, using new ideas and strategies alongside effective and well-established teaching and learning methodology.

As a key member of our team, the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate the ability to teach art at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. As a through-school, this position also presents an exciting opportunity to teach art across the entire age range from 4-16. We want a teacher who shares our ambitious approach to teaching and learning and who strives to achieve excellent results, maximising pupil progress. We have high aspirations for all our learners and aim to support our pupils in becoming independent and self-regulating life-long learners.

What the school offers its staff

Our expert, friendly teaching and support staff work hard to ensure that our school continues to grow and improve, keeping our pupils' development needs at the heart of all we do. "The Ribblesdale Way" encapsulates the core beliefs and expectations we hold for our pupils and staff. Ribblesdale School is a Microsoft Showcase School and a founder member and key contributor in the North-West EdTech hub. Every pupil in our care benefits from our Ofsted Grade 1 personal development programme which incorporates our unique enrichment curriculum.

Ribblesdale is a popular and successful school which enjoys close links with the local community it has served for more than 90 years. I would positively encourage candidates to visit Ribblesdale School in order that they may better understand the ethos and atmosphere of our learning community.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.