Drama Teacher

Role: Teacher of Drama

Academy: Outwood Academy Easingwold

Start Date: 01/09/2026

Salary (Actual Salary): MPS to UPS. Experienced and Early Careers Teachers welcome.

Working Pattern: Full time with part time considered

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area Join us as a Teacher where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.

This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning understands curriculum developments and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.

Welcome from the Principal:

Thank you for your interest in the vacancy at Outwood Academy Easingwold.

It is a privilege to introduce you to our vibrant and successful school and Sixth Form located in the delightful market town of Easingwold North Yorkshire near York and surrounded by beautiful countryside.

We are proud to serve an increasingly diverse community and maintain a unique nurturing family ethos. Our dedicated staff are driven by an unwavering commitment to securing strong outcomes. Our GCSE and A level results are consistently excellent affording our young people the opportunity to achieve their future aspirations. We are passionate about encouraging personal development so students grow into confident articulate citizens.

As part of the Outwood Family a Trust renowned for transforming lives and raising standards we would be delighted to welcome you to our friendly and supportive team if you share our passion for making a real difference.

Outwood Academy Easingwold is a very special place and I look forward to meeting you

We are delighted to be making an appointment for the position of Teacher of Drama for our high-achieving 11-18 academy in North Yorkshire. Outwood Academy Easingwold has the highest-performing Post 16 centre in North Yorkshire and GCSE results are the highest for non-selective schools an achievement we are incredibly proud of.

Our academies offer a high quality of education for our students and excellent career progression and training for staff. Our driving ambition is Students First: Raising Standards and Transforming Lives.

As a teacher of Drama you will join an established department that offers a wealth of expertise. You will become part of a very successful and friendly Creative And Performing Arts faculty team led by an experienced and supportive Head of Faculty with over 14 years of working in secondary schools and committed to driving standards to the next level within the faculty and across the trust.

The Drama department at Easingwold has two resourced rooms. Both classrooms have a lighting rig and these are used frequently at all key stages and highly effective episodes of guided practice to develop strong procedural knowledge and confidence for independent and deliberate practice. The established KS3 Drama curriculum is well planned and is designed as a progressive course that allows the teacher autonomy in the classroom to fulfill their potential. It fully prepares students for the KS4 qualifications giving experiences from physical theatre and facial expressions to specific practitioner focus such as Brecht to Artaud. The Drama Department offers the KS4 qualification of OCR Drama giving students the opportunity to excel in their love and enthusiasm for Drama.

The department produces outstanding outcomes with relentless ambition to improve on previous years. Many of our students go on to study Drama at college and addition we have been successful in recent years within the OGAT Outwood Performance of the Year this amazing evening sees musicians actors and dancers from across the trust come together in a concert to celebrate the talents of.

We currently offer a wide range of enrichment activities for students across the faculty from Performing Arts Club and GCSE enrichment as well as Art Club Photography Club and GCSE enrichment in Art as well as Choir School of Rock and Concert Band. The faculty puts on two concerts a year as well as Battle of The Bands and a big production normally a musical and plays. This eclectic range of opportunities gives the students an amazing choice of extra-curricular experiences to really develop their knowledge skills and cultural capital.

We are excited to meet a candidate who is able to continue our tradition of high quality concerts musicals and plays and bring some fresh ideas to develop our offer for our students.

Teaching and learning is exceptionally led across the academy by a team of experienced SLT and middle leaders who ensure that the curriculum for our students will set them up for lifelong success.

The continuing professional development of staff is important here at Outwood Academy Easingwold. Staff have access to a wide range of CPD and the department is supported by a friendly and approachable Director.

Outwood Academy Easingwold offers:

• We are judged as Outstanding by Ofsted and the report published on 21st September 2022 said Outwood
  Academy Easingwold is an aspirational and nurturing environment where pupils are encouraged to excel.
  Staff have the highest expectations of what pupils can achieve and ensure that they meet them. They also
  stated This is a caring community where pupils and staff value and appreciate each other. About our
  curriculum they wrote The schools intrinsic academic enhancement and elective curriculums combine
  to ensure that pupils receive an exceptional education.
• We are regularly ranked in the top 20 of The Times top schools in the North.
• We offer a high quality of education for our students and excellent career progression and training for staff.
• We offer our colleagues extensive CPD opportunities.
• You will see the investment that has been put into the school infrastructure to provide an environment that is
  conducive to learning.
• You will find the staff and students friendly and welcoming.
• Free onsite parking.

If you share our vision then why not join our family

• To view the Teaching Staff recruitment booklet for Performing Arts:Click Here