Lamda Speech and Drama Coach

**Salary**:
£23,113.20 per annum

**Job type**:
Part Time, Maternity Cover

**Start date**:
February 2025

13 December 2024

**Job overview**:
Millfield School is seeking a passionate and dynamic LAMDA Speech and Drama Coach to join our team to cover maternity leave from February 2025. If you are a creative, forward-thinking practitioner with a dedication to inspiring students across all year groups, this is the opportunity for you

As part of our thriving drama department, you will deliver diverse and engaging lessons in Acting, Verse and Prose, Public Speaking, Musical Theatre, Reading for Performance, and Devising Drama. You'll work with students from Year 9 to Year 13, preparing them for LAMDA graded exams and fostering a deep love for the performing arts.

The role will involve solo, duo, and group tuition, as well as participation in term-end showcases and festival work.

We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of Speech and Drama education, offering enriching experiences for every student. Join us to help shape the future of our pupils’ artistic journeys.

**Hours**: Approx. 20 hours per week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday during term time only.

If you are dedicated to nurturing talent and ready to be part of a vibrant arts community, we’d love to hear from you.

**About us**:
Founded in 1935, Millfield’s vision is to be the world leader for the development of children. There are nearly 1,300 students at the senior school (year 9 to U6), with a 3:1 ratio of boarding to day. Although essentially a rural British school, 20 per cent of Millfield students are international and come from more than 70 countries.

Set in over 100 acres of grounds, Millfield’s size brings great opportunity, and the facilities are unmatched in the UK: an Olympic-sized swimming pool, golf courses, indoor centres for tennis, golf and cricket and an equestrian centre; concert hall, recording studio, theatre, art gallery, hi-tech Science block and outstanding teaching facilities; and high-quality boarding accommodation.

Our aim is to discover brilliance in every child and to immerse them in academic, creative and sporting opportunities to develop this brilliance. We offer an exceptionally wide range of courses and provide multiple pathways through the school to meet the needs of the individual child.

**Closing date: Noon on Friday 13th December 2024.**
- Millfield School is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for all. We are a community that celebrates diversity, supporting our pupils and employees to be brilliant as individuals._
- Be kind, be individual, be brilliant. Millfield School, where being an individual is recognised as the key to brilliance._

**About **Millfield School**:
**Millfield School**
- Butleigh Road, Street- Somerset- BA16 0YD- United Kingdom+44 1458 442 291

With its outstanding facilities, a staff:pupil ratio of 1:7.5, an extraordinary range of academic courses and the unrivalled strength of its extra-curricular programme, Millfield strives to achieve all these aims. It also seeks to move with the times whilst maintaining the important traditions of good manners, discipline and respect for others.

We pride ourselves on the richness and diversity of the Millfield experience as well as the friendly atmosphere within our community.

If you are considering joining our school community, please read our blog
- Five reasons for teachers to work at Millfield