Job Description
Music Teacher – Northholt
£170 a day
Contract – Full Time
Duties/Responsibilities:
• Teaching Year 2 - Year 6
• Thursday and Fridays
• The school follows the National Curriculum.
• This incorporates the essential elements of music and the three aspects defined under disciplinary knowledge.
• The National Curriculum is enhanced by a web music scheme called Charanga, provided and supported by Ealing Music service.
• Music is valued in the school and is taught as a stand alone subject. All children have access to music in all year groups, in line with the timetable.
• The school has clearly identified disciplinary knowledge in music and defined it as the following Technical – physical production of sound with voice, instrument or music technology.
• Formal and informal notation, learning by ear for the communication of music.
• Constructive – knowledge and understanding of the musical elements in performance, composition and listening.
• Expressive – consideration of... the quality in performance, composition and listening. Knowledge of musical meaning and culture through history and across the world.
• These three aspects are intertwined into all units in all year groups which the children encounter year on year to ensure that their knowledge and skills are met.
• The Music lead has identified clear endpoints for each year group and each unit.
• As a result, learning is broken down into manageable chunks so that component is built upon week by week. This avoids cognitive overload and supports with retention. E.g. in a year 2 lesson
• observed, it was clear that children had been taught previous expectations around the use of a glockenspiel, navigation of notes and pitch.
• The teacher used Assessment for Learning in order to build upon previous knowledge.
To find out more information please contact Lily at [email protected]
Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. We are an equal opportunity agency.
Job Description
Northolt UK