Teacher of Art
What skills and experience we're looking for
At Kingsway Park High School, our Art department is proud to offer our students a well-rounded, high quality KS3 and 4 curriculums, providing students the opportunity to experiment with a wide variety of materials and techniques. The art department is a popular department which offers AQA GCSE Art and GCSE Textiles, as well as EDEXCEL GCSE Photography at KS4.All KS3 students have one art lesson a week and then if opted for, students will have five GCSE lessons over a two-week timetable. As a faculty our aim is to provide students with a worldclass learning experience and will expect the successful candidate to embrace our schools’ values of ‘we cooperate, we pioneer and we belong’, embedding these values into lessons and into all other areas of day-to day school life.
The art department is very well resourced, having access to 3 large art classrooms, a large kiln, 40 computers all equipped with the Adobe suite and Microsoft Office, a dedicated printer, photocopier, and scanner, 20 sewing machines, a pottery wheel, 20 DSLR Canon cameras and a wide variety of traditional drawing, painting and print-making equipment.Our vision is to equip our children with the essential knowledge and tools to become creative thinkers, resilient individuals, and independent learners, striving for high aspirations.
The art department is one part of the creative faculty at KPHS, alongside music and drama. As a faculty we work collaboratively to provide a well-rounded creative curriculum for our students, sharing good teaching practice. The art department is made up of 3 full time and 1 part time teaching staff with a faculty technician who looks after materials and equipment.
We are seeking to appoint a passionate and enthusiastic teacher of art to join our thriving and successful department. The successful candidate will join a department with a historical track record of outstanding teaching and learning, collaborative planning and a strong team working ethos.You will be teaching both KS3 and KS4 curriculums with full support from the head of department and lead practitioners. As a
faculty we also offer a variety of extra-curricular activities for students and we would like the successful candidate to be fully involved, bringing their own practice as a specialism. The creative faculty actively engages with school productions and showcases and would like the successful candidate to involve themselves alongside department staff.As a member of staff, you will also become a form tutor, taking on a wider school responsibility. Tutor time at Kingsway Park is a vital part of the school day where you are first point of contact for our children at the start of the day, helping them prepare for their learning.
We welcome all ECT and experienced teachers to apply and if you would like a tour of the school please do get into contact with Christopher Eplett (Head of Faculty). If required, we have a full ECT programme at Kingsway Park High School to ensure that any early careers teachers are fully supported with the induction process.
The art department is very proud of the work created by our students and one of our ways to showcase outcomes is through social media. If you would like to see some of the work that our students create, please see:
@KPHS_Art (Instagram)
What the school offers its staff
Kingsway Park High School was established in 2010 and joined the Altus Education Partnership in February 2022. We are now a very popular oversubscribed school (1350 students in years 7-11 and 190 staff) located in central Rochdale. We are very proud of the high-quality facilities, resources, and environment that we provide for both staff and students.
At Kingsway Park High School we strive to transform students’ lives. Through our relationships, we endeavor to instill both resilience and an intrinsic motivation to become confident, creative, and highly skilled students, capable of meeting tomorrow’s challenges head on.We strive to establish a culture rooted in achievement and progress that encourages our students to grow academically, personally, and socially, equipping them with the values of equality, fairness, and openness. We pride ourselves on our relentless drive to achieve outstanding, high-quality teaching that provides a safe, supportive, and encouraging environment for all our students to be able to realise their academic potential in pursuit of educational excellence.
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.