Head of Music

This role provides the unique opportunity to take 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 student's 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.

The Music programme focuses on the development of an ambitious offer which stretches and challenges all our students. The successful candidate must be a strong performer, 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.

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. Recent 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.

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.

The school has 5 practice rooms and two specialist classrooms, including one teaching room with electric keyboards and one with 16 MACs, alongside the designated new performing arts studio opening in the autumn.

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.

The Music programme focuses on the development of an ambitious offer which stretches and challenges all our students. The successful candidate must be a strong performer, 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.

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. Recent 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.

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.

The school has 5 practice rooms and two specialist classrooms, including one teaching room with electric keyboards and one with 16 MACs, alongside the designated new performing arts studio opening in the autumn.

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.