Teacher of Music and Music Technology

The Music Department 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. One of our pupils has been selected as a semi-finalist in BBC Chorister of the Year 2026, to be televised later this year. 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, performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana and Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, a production of Guys and Dolls, and evensong at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, as well as concert trips to the Proms and Cadogan Hall. Popular music continues to thrive at the school, with a rich culture of pupil-led bands. As such, music is central to the life of the WLFS. We believe that music makes our