Head of Legat Introduction

REQUIRED FOR SEPTEMBER 2021: HEAD OF LEGAT INTRODUCTION ede’s is one of the newest, fastest-growing, and most innovative HMC schools. We have developed a reputation for ‘adding value’, for helping pupils to out-perform their expectations, to achieve more than they ever thought B possible – be it in the classroom, on the stage, in the dance studio, or on the sports field. To provide our pupils with the very best start in life, we seek the very best teachers – teachers who have passion and energy, knowledge and empathy, interest and ambition. WELCOME ede’s is a remarkable co-educational day and boarding We believe in moulding the educational experience to School. As a member of our academic staff, you will fit the child, not the other way around. We are also firm find Bede’s to be an inspiring, satisfying and pleasant in our assertion that if our pupils are happy during place to work. their time in School then their happiness will inform B their successes. We are always seeking genuinely exceptional talent, individuals who share our ethos that helps to nurture I hope that your impression of Bede’s when you meet every pupil’s potential and to shape them into well- us bears out these ideas – that ours is a happy, kind rounded and considerate individuals who are able and caring School which offers children unrivalled and willing to make a positive impact on society, both opportunities and holds only the highest ambitions for locally and globally. them. Ours is a School defined by discovery. We encourage Don’t take my word for it however. Speak to the pupils, every individual to seek out their passions, venture for it is their School more than it is anyone else’s. towards new horizons and, along the way, develop Thank you for taking the time to explore this both lasting friendships and confidence in themselves. opportunity, if you feel that Bede’s could benefit This pioneering spirit, combined with the very highest from your expertise and that you share the ethos and standard of teaching, extraordinary opportunities values of this wonderful School please do make an outside of the classroom and peerless pastoral care, application, we would be delighted to receive it. truly enables children to achieve their potential. We are understandably proud that Bede’s is a market leader in adding value, ensuring that our pupils Peter Goodyer achieve better than expectation. We also, this year, Headmaster enjoyed another record year for exam results, with 82% of A level grades at A*-B and 82% of grades at GCSE at 9-5 HEAD OF LEGAT At Bede's, our aim is to be a national leader and innovator in the Performing Arts and Bede’s Legat Dance Academy thrives The Position within this inspirational environment. You will build upon our success, developing our programmes of training for the next generation of dancers. As the Head of Bede’s Legat Dance Academy, you will be responsible for all aspects of the Academy and will seek to challenge, stretch and inspire our dancers’ creativity through outstanding leadership, teaching, organisation and innovative timetabling. You will relish the opportunity to influence the pupil experience directly by devising invigorating lessons, facilitating regular trips to productions, organising professional workshops and choreographing annual productions. You will join an outward looking faculty that constantly seeks to evolve and improve its provision and delivery, responding to pupils’ interests as well as enjoying collaboration with industry professionals. You will look forward to working as part of a team of Performing Arts educators who are committed to inspiring and supporting young people to realise their creative aspirations. Performing Arts is a gemstone at Bede’s and the Academy’s aspiration is critical to our success, which can be measured, not only by our outrageous ambition, but by a good number of pupils taking up places at Conservatoires each year. The Head of Bede’s Legat Dance Academy will give direction and support to the admissions team in creating and revising audition information, as well as professionally and effectively communicating with parents to create and develop links through the monthly newsletter and the creation of Legat Dance Academy Parents’ meetings. Bede’s Legat Dance Academy currently includes five members of part time staff; the postholder will manage and support these staff, as well as those seconded to the Prep School, by liaising with the Head of Dance at the Prep, overseeing Prep School students visiting the Academy and overseeing transitional links between Year 8 and First Year (Year 9). The Performing Arts Faculty is led by Mrs Karen Lewis who also teaches Drama. As a Head of Department within the Performing Arts you will work closely with the Director of Music and the Head of Academic Drama. Our faculty benefits from a wardrobe manager, a LAMDA teacher, a full-time technician, and an office manager. You will enjoy being a part of the warm, creative, ambitious and supportive Performing Arts team The Academy occupies the Miles Studio Theatre and this accommodation gives us three Dance studio spaces, two Drama performance spaces, two dressing rooms, as well as two shared classrooms. There is a generous office space that is shared with the Drama Department, and we take advantage of our proximity through creative collaboration. Whilst this is a full-time role, candidates seeking a part-time role of 0.8 FTE will also be considered. Bede’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check. THE CAMPUS ede’s 120 acre campus is located within the village Since its launch, a feature of Bede’s campus of Upper Dicker and features a multi award-winning development has been its innovative and pioneering Art School, Zoo, Science Centre and some of the spirit, and this remains very much in evidence today; the finest sports facilities in the South East, including an most recent boarding houses have won design awards B international-standard water-based hockey pitch, eight and Bede’s was one of the first schools to move to using football pitches, four cricket pitches, swimming pool, a biomass heating system. fitness studio and a state-of-the-art Sports Complex. BEDE’S FACTS AND FIGURES Male 455 Female 311 Sixth Form 284 Junior 482 Day 424 Day Boarding 70 Weekly Boarding 123 Boarding 149 BEDE’S SENIOR SCHOOL ede’s is located in the Sussex village of Upper Dicker, the very best in the country, with particular strengths north of Eastbourne, east of Lewes, and half-an-hour in Ceramics and Photography. Our Dance School from Brighton, Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. The produces work of an extraordinary quality, and every school was founded in 1979, having grown out of a year a number of pupils leave us for further training B long-established junior school, located in Eastbourne. or careers in this area. Drama is a massive strength. We currently educate 760 pupils, from Years 9 to 13 Our sport, for girls and boys, is nationally-recognised. (a further 300 children attend our junior school, with But we recognise that to give our pupils the best which we have very close links). opportunities in life, it is incumbent upon us to help We are enormously lucky to be situated in beautiful enable those pupils to achieve the best possible countryside, close to the South Downs National Park. outcomes in public exams. Therefore, unashamedly, Our school campus is enormous, and alongside all of we are hungry for positive results in the GCSEs and the things that you might expect to find in a school A-levels for which our pupils study. Over the last – classrooms, dining halls, boarding accommodation few years between 70 to 82% of all A levels take at – also contains some things that may be more Bede’s were graded A*- B and over 90% of GCSEs at surprising: a superb gym, a large swimming pool, and grades 9-4. More important, though, is the measure even a school zoo (currently home to about 90 species, of the value we “add” to each child. Department for from Squirrel Monkeys to Musk Turtles). Education figures have consistently shown Bede’s to be one of the country’s top performing schools in The school’s success has been built on offering a this regard: our pupils are enabled to be the very best programme which fits the needs of the individual, versions of themselves, thanks to the care, and the rather than expecting individuals to conform to the opportunities, they receive at Bede’s. expectations of the school. As such, we have always given space to the esoteric rather than focusing solely on the mainstream. Our Art Department is amongst Cumulative percentages at each grade for Cumulative percentages at each grade for GCSEs A Level, BTEC and PreU qualifications A* A B C D 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2020 25 54 82 97 99 2020 9 23 43 67 82 95 99 2019 20 48 70 88 96 2019 7 20 39 56 77 91 96 There are a variety of guides available for parents seeking advice on the most THE GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE suitable school for their child, but many consider the Good Schools Guide to be the ACADEMIC PROGRAMME most objective and authoritative due to the thoroughness of their research (which REVIEW OF BEDE’S includes interviews with parents and pupils) the expertise of those researchers sent to appraise the School.

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