Class Teacher

Howard Community Academy, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 6SA

24 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  16 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: Part Time 19.5 hours per week (work pattern to be confirmed)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Duties and responsibilities

• Have the ability to lead, motivate and inspire confidence.
• Be able successfully to implement strategies for raising achievement and ensuring effective teaching and learning for the pupils at Howard Primary Academy.
• Establish a safe and stimulating learning environment for pupils which values all pupils and gives them a sense of their own self-worth.
• Have aspirations for creating provision that stretches and challenges pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions.
• Demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils.
• Implement strategies that support parents and carers to believe that their children can achieve well.
• Plan teaching that builds on pupil’s capabilities and their prior knowledge
• Guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how this impacts on teaching
• Encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and learning.
• Know and understand how to assess subject and curriculum areas, including statutory assessment requirements.
• Make use of formative and summative assessment to secure and improve pupils’ progress.
• Work with leaders to establish a comprehensive understanding of pupils’ achievement and how best to support improving it.

Requirements

• Qualified to Degree level
• Qualified Teacher Status
• Experience of teaching in primary education
• Knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of National Curriculum
• Understanding of the requirements of pupils with SEN and EAL
• High expectations of pupils achievement and behaviour
• Evidence of involvement in curriculum development
• Flexibility to teach across KS1 & 2 orally and in writing to a variety of audiences
• Create a happy, challenging and effective learning environment

What the school offers its staff

Employee Benefits:

• Generous Pension Scheme (LGPS or Teachers’ Pension Scheme depending on the role)
• Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Free membership to Anglian Learning Sports Centres
• 20 percent discount on Anglian Learning Adult Education Courses
• Professional Development Scheme Policy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Specsavers VDU Vouchers
• Boots Flu Vouchers
• Perkbox – access a range of discounts in-store and online at nationwide shops.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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About Howard Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 196 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Howard Community Academy website
• Email address: aweir@howardprimary.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/howard-community-academy

Arranging a visit to Howard Community Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email aweir@howardprimary.org.

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