Music Subject Lead

Are you ready to inspire the next generation of musicians and lead a fun and exciting music curriculum within a thriving school community? Avanti Grange invites passionate and talented individuals to take on the exciting role of Subject Lead for Music, guiding students toward musical excellence while embracing our ethos of Educational Excellence, Character Development, and Spiritual Insight. As a key middle leader, you'll shape the future of music education, fostering creativity, innovation, and achievement in every student while driving forward high standards and inclusive practices. Avanti Grange is Bishop’s Stortford’s newest secondary school. Our state-of-the-art campus serves families from Stortford, Stanstead, Farnham and many other neighbouring villages. We are fortunate to have an incredible team of staff that are creative, hard-working and inspired to develop leaders of the future. Avanti Grange is a non-faith, co-educational, community school that embraces inclusion and diversity. Our staff are inspired and passionate about their roles, the vision of the school, and providing the most fulfilling learning experience for pupils. Learning is a quest to discover each student’s unique gifts and potential, and to lay the foundation for their lifelong journey of learning. We encourage students to value self, others and the environment and empower them to be effective learners as well as good and responsible citizens. This is all underpinned by a learning environment that allows all staff and pupils to grow, thrive and become the best versions of themselves. What will you do? Be responsible for the learning and achievement of all pupils in the class(es) ensuring equality of opportunity for all. Be responsible and accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct within the Music curriculum and across the school as a whole. Ensure the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost effective curriculum that has high expectations of achievement for all students. Lead on the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking and assessment policies and teaching and learning strategies that are innovative, will motivate students to learn and raise achievement across the subject area. Work with other Subject Leaders in order to embed cross curricular Literacy, numeracy and ICT across the School, which is effective in raising standards. Why should you apply? Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place. You will be working in a fantastic environment, with: Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility). Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership. Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps). Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes. What are we looking for? Genuine passion for lifelong learning. A belief in the unique potential of every student. Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students. Clear vision and understanding of how to implement and sustain a high quality teaching and learning. Further information Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks. Diversity and Inclusion We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents. Avanti Grange Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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