What skills and experience we're looking for
The Art and Design Faculty is a well organised and mutually supportive team of enthusiastic teaching staff. There are 4 fully-equipped classrooms, each catering for a specialist area such as; Art, Design Technology or Textiles. ICT rooms are available through a school centralised booking system.
Pupils are taught in smaller mixed ability groups during Years 7 and 8. At the end of Year 8, pupils go through an Options process, selecting two subjects to specialise in during Year 9.
The uptake in Options at KS4 is large and likely to further increase, given the new facilities that are currently being constructed.
The department has strong links with the school’s SEND team and selected pupils receive extensive help in terms of class support. We constantly strive to adapt our teaching styles to accommodate all students.
We are looking to appoint a member of our team who will continue to build on our positive relationships and encourage all pupils to be involved in Art and Design during their time at Hastings.
What the school offers its staff
Thank you for your interest in this post. This is a permanent full time role to begin asap. The hours of work will be 37 hours per week, from Monday to Friday, during term-time only, plus one week for staff training. The actual salary range will be between £20,885 – 21,893, depending on experience and continuous local government service.
The school has had significant investment in the last 12 months to build 8 new classrooms, a sports hall alongside redevelopment of the canteen and main pastoral areas. This will enable us to take extra pupils starting with a cohort of 200 in Year 7 in Autumn 2025. This expansion will include 2 state of the Art Design rooms.
The school was judged ‘Good’ at our last Ofsted inspection. We are committed to further improvement to ensure that we provide “Care and Excellence for All”.
We have a strong academic record with each of the previous 4 years having achieved a Progress 8 score “above average”, achieving a score of +0.40 last year. Our predictions for the future year groups are that they will exceed this. These continuing improvements are down to our focus on the basics; an orderly climate for learning, engaging teaching and building positive relationships with all stakeholders.
We have a comprehensive induction programme for new staff to help you settle in and provide very high levels of support. We are a school which strives to bring out the best in our staff by investing heavily in staff development and wellbeing.
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.