CORE PURPOSE
We require an innovative, creatively driven Art Teacher to deliver outstanding visual arts instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Operating within a progressive Foundation Trust school, the successful candidate will facilitate a structured, portfolio-led curriculum designed to foster deep technical drawing ability, spatial reasoning, historical art analysis, and confident multi-media fabrication skills, preparing all pupils thoroughly for terminal GCSE Art and Design public examinations and portfolio moderations.
THE SCHOOL
Our Foundation Trust school operates as an ambitious, inclusive secondary school dedicated to high academic standards, creative expression, and cultivating a strong sense of community responsibility. The campus features modern, light-filled art studios equipped with traditional fine art materials alongside digital design suites and ceramics facilities. Our behaviour management framework is built upon clear expectations, consistent routines, and mutual respect, maintaining a calm, highly purposeful studio environment that allows pupils to confidently engage in practical creation and independent artistic research.
KEY TASKS & DAILY OPERATIONS
Portfolio-Led Creative Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver high-quality art and design lessons across all attainment pathways, embedding consistent practical projects to demystify fine art, textiles, printmaking, and sculpture techniques.
Contextual and Critical Studies: Train students extensively in modern and historical art analysis, bridging practical studio skills with critical thinking, literacy, and deep contextual understanding of diverse global artists and movements.
Rigorous Studio Safety Leadership: Manage busy school art studios and kiln rooms with flawless adherence to COSHH and health and safety guidelines, teaching safe tool handling, medium preparation, and equipment operation.
GCSE Component Tracking: Guide Year 11 cohorts systematically through the demands of Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) portfolios and terminal externally set assignments, meticulously tracking design folders to ensure comprehensive evidence of research, development, and refinement.
Community Pastoral Care: Fulfil full form tutor responsibilities within an established year group structure, managing daily registration, delivering pastoral curriculum units, and maintaining proactive, supportive communication with families.
PROFILE REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or a recognised equivalent teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in Fine Art, Visual Communication, Design, or a closely related creative discipline.
Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress metrics and exceptional practical outcomes in terminal public GCSE Art and Design examinations through structured, explicit creative pedagogy.
Inclusive Mindset: An unwavering commitment to comprehensive education, demonstrating the patience, clarity, and adaptability required to inspire, challenge, and support pupils of all artistic abilities.
REGIONAL CONTEXT
New Town Pioneer & Bioscience Innovation: Based in the historically significant town of Stevenage, Hertfordshire—the UK's very first designated post-war New Town—the school capitalizes on a unique regional identity where pioneering urban design meets a modern status as a world-class cluster for advanced therapeutics, biotechnology, and aerospace engineering. The town’s rich history of public art commissions and its close proximity to the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst provide inspiring, real-world links for design briefs, spatial modelling, and contemporary scientific-art collaborations.
Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from premium home counties transport infrastructure, offering straightforward road commuting via the A1(M) corridor and the A602. Public transit runs flawlessly across the region, utilizing the town's comprehensive pedestrian-segregated cycleway and local bus network alongside Stevenage railway station, which provides regular, high-speed Great Northern and LNER services directly to Welwyn Garden City, Cambridge, Peterborough, and London King's Cross in under 20 minutes.
APPLICATION INTAKE
Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.
