Skip to main content
Tes home
SearchBack to search
Teacher of Art & Design

Teacher of Art & Design

Welling School

Bexley

Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
5 June 2015

Job overview

We are looking to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic Teacher of Art with exceptional subject knowledge to join our highly successful faculty. The appointed candidate will be a dynamic, hardworking teacher and a strong team player. He or she will also be expected to make a full contribution to the life of this busy Specialist Arts Faculty and the school.

The faculty is 10 strong and is continuing to develop further. As well as art teaching staff, we have a Community Arts Officer and a technician. We have our own gallery where we exhibit students’ work alongside exhibitions of established artists including the Chapman Brothers and David Hockney. The faculty has a growing international reputation for its innovative approaches to teaching art. Each year we showcase our most talented young students by running “the alTURNERtive Prize”. This exhibition has involved such figures as Richard Wentworth, Michael Archer, Hew Locke, Ryan Gander and Ben Lewis as judges and speakers.

The faculty is extremely successful within the school and wider community and we would like you to contribute to its continuing success. We have strong links with Middlesex University, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Hayward Gallery, the Tate, the ICA, the South London Gallery and other institutions and galleries.

We run a biannual periodical, entitled “Æ”, which focuses on issues in art and education and has contributions from students, staff, artists and writers. The publication takes the form of a free newspaper (www.wellingvisualarts.org)

Art is very popular at KS4 and KS5 and we offer an array of exciting and unique GCSEs designed by the team. Alongside this we offer Textiles, Graphics, Photography and Fine Art at A Level. The appointed candidate will be expected to teach across the full age and ability range. You will work from your own specialist classroom located within the art centre with a fully equipped interactive whiteboard.

We would welcome applications from both qualified teachers and NQT’s.

The job description and person specification can be downloaded below or contact Nikki Whitelock, HR Manager at Welling School. Please send your completed application form to Nikki Whitelock, HR Manager, whitelockn@wellingschool-tkat.org.

Closing date: Friday 5th June 2015

Welling school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

About Welling School

Thank you for taking the time to consider applying for the post advertised at Welling School.  The successful candidate for this post will be a teacher who can take their love of teaching and use it to inspire and motivate students to achieve or exceed their absolute potential.  

At Welling School our mission is to achieve high standards and fulfil the expectations of all students of all abilities and from diverse backgrounds.  We passionately believe that every child does matter and that they deserve to enjoy their learning experience with us.  Our dedicated staff place students' interests at the centre of everything they do, ensuring that students have high aspirations and are able to reach their full potential.  Our 'Welling Ways' engenders the values of nurturing the whole child to be an inclusive citizen in preparation for their future life and work.

Welling School is located in the Borough of Bexley, just 25 minutes outside of Central London with excellent transport links.  Our co-educational 11-18 students can study a broad range of subjects through our innovative curriculum.  We are an oversubscribed Academy with a Visual Arts Specialism that has gained a national reputation for being at the cutting edge of contemporary practice in art.   In February 2015 Ofsted judged the school to be good in every category, including the 6th form, where many of our students choose to stay to continue their studies.  We are part of the TKAT family, one of the largest multi-academy Trust's in the South East of England, who's ultimate aim is to ensure that educational standards are driven up through the provision of outstanding teaching, leadership and learning for all. The Trust CPD programmes provide additional training opportunities to work alongside the school's excellent in-house training programmes.

We have excellent facilities and continue to invest in resources to enhance our students learning.  We have a rich and full range of extra curricular activities including a school choir, sports clubs, STEM club, reading club and other performing arts and curriculum based activities, as well as our educational trips and visits and charity expeditions.

If you share our vision and values, then we would be very pleased to hear from you.  I encourage you to make an appointment to visit the school so that you can see Welling 'at work'.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Rob Pett

Headteacher

Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.

Applications closed