Teacher of Music

The WLFS has been a music specialist school since its

foundation, and the department is well resourced, with four full-time music

teachers, supported by a full-time assistant and twenty visiting teachers.

Twelve pupils each year enter the school as music scholars. At Key Stage 3,

pupils have two hours a week of classroom music teaching, and develop a

thorough theoretical and practical grasp of traditional music notation. Around

half participate in either an after-school music ensemble or receive instrumental

lessons, with almost 300 individual lessons taking place each week, and a

scheme to encourage the study of ‘rare’ orchestral instruments.

Our proportion of pupils taking Music GCSE (OCR) in

Years 10 and 11 is among the highest for any secondary school in the country.

At A-level we offer both Music (Eduqas) and Music Technology (Edexcel), and

former pupils often study at the country’s most prestigious universities, with

alumni winning choral scholarships and reading Music, recently at Merton and

New Colleges in Oxford. The department runs an orchestra, a string group, a

wind band, and a number of choirs, including a staff & parent choral

society. There is a busy programme of concerts, competitions, foreign and UK

tours, cathedral visits, and an ambitious history of school musicals (with

recent examples including The Sound of Music and Les Miserables).

The programme for 2026 includes a tour to France, singing across Normandy and

in La Madeleine, Paris, a performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana, and a

production of Guys and Dolls, as well as concert trips to the Proms and

Cadogan Hall. As such, music is central to the life of the school. We

believe that music makes our pupils’ lives, and our school community, richer in

spirit. In this the department is fully supported by the senior leadership

team.

Key characteristics of the role include:

to impart your passion for Music to the pupils

you teach, whilst also ensuring their mastery of the subject. to assist the Head of Department in planning

and delivering schemes of work for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, and monitoring their

effectiveness. to monitor the progress of pupils according to

the school assessment policy. to enhance the quality of teaching and

learning in the department by taking part in collaborative planning, sharing

resources, mentoring and observing teachers, and participating in continuing

professional development. to be a form tutor, and work collaboratively

with your year group team. to contribute to the wider school life, by

taking responsibility for one or more instrumental/vocal ensembles, supporting

the busy concerts programme, and helping to organise and lead inspiring

external trips and tours. to play a key role in the submission of

performing and composing coursework, recording and accompanying pupils, and

running support sessions as appropriate.

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