This is our community. These are our stories. Come and be a part of it.
There is the opportunity of a lifetime to teach at one of our extraordinary schools, School. We need someone to teach Art within our highly regarded expeditionary learning curriculum. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Secondary specialist to develop activism, leadership and equity in our students by creating beautiful products and important work that will change the world.
Our Design Principles
‘At XP, we build our community through…
- Activism,
- Leadership
- and Equity…
sharing our stories as we go.’
These design principles are the basis for all our work. We focus on enabling our students to create beautiful work that creates agency and has a positive impact on the world; we encourage leadership in our students by facilitating the ownership of their own learning; and we have an unabated insistence on equity to ensure that we remove any barriers that inhibit student growth and success.
Therefore, at XP we focus relentlessly on high quality work and character growth. As a result, our school culture is value driven. Therefore, we expect our children, staff and parents to be courageous, respectful, committed to craftsmanship and quality, compassionate and to always show integrity. We provide an authentically tough and rewarding education for everyone, and we believe this is best achieved through not segregating our children by any measure, such as social class or academic ability.
We believe a person is judged by their character and the quality of work they produce. Our school focuses continuously on these two crucial areas of development. Our children express who they are by personalising their work, and are given time to produce beautiful and meaningful work by following a process of multiple drafts and critique, working towards creating products which are indistinguishable from professionals. Every day, our children develop their habits of work and learning by working hard, getting smart and being kind, and reflecting on our character values of courage, respect, craftsmanship and quality, compassion and integrity.
There will be an expectation that shortlisted candidates teach a 30 minute art/photography activity to a mixed ability group of up to 25 students of Year 9 age with a learning coach to support.
All application forms should be returned directly to XP Trust [email protected]
Position: Art Teacher
Pay Scale: MPS
Hours: Full Time
Deadline for Applications: Monday 14th October 12pm
Start Date: ASAP
Permanent in the first instance: (all roles are subject to a 6 month probationary period)