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Class Teacher

Swallowfield Primary, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, MK17 8SR

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• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 May 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  12 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Part Time Considered
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1-M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

Swallowfield Primary is a Central Bedfordshire school and due to its location, supports pupils in both Milton Keynes and Central Beds. This is an exciting opportunity for the right teacher to join Swallowfield Primary in September 2025. We are now a full primary school (converted from a lower school) with excellent resources and facilities to ensure a great curriculum offer.

We are a supportive and friendly values school which sits at the heart of its local community in Woburn Sands. We are committed to providing high quality teaching to meet the needs of all our children, ensuring progress for all.

We want to appoint an enthusiastic, talented and creative teacher. The appointee will work collaboratively with the whole school staff whereby the role will involve working with colleagues across the primary range.

You will need to be an excellent communicator and a person who is supportive of the whole staff team. You will be someone who is committed to equality of opportunity for all children within the school.

What the school offers its staff

We understand that as a teacher, there are various pressures that come with the extensive work required for all pupils to make great progress. Therefore, it is equally important to us that we support and invest in our teachers too through quality training opportunities and consideration of all teachers’ work/life balance.

We pride ourselves on being a close-knit team that feels like a family and have been previously recognised as having good behaviour and that pupils are motivated and eager to learn.

Swallowfield Primary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for all roles.

Flexible working opportunities

Part time role considered/job share role

Further details about the role

This class teacher role would be based upon your own desire and experience of teaching a certain key stage or year group.

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.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Class Teacher-Person Specification.pdf - 118 KB (opens in new tab)

About Swallowfield Primary

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 457 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Swallowfield Primary website
• Email address: g.mcgill@swallowfieldprimary.com
• Phone number: 01908 582101
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/swallowfield-lower-school

Swallowfield Primary is a Central Bedfordshire school and due to its location, supports pupils in both Milton Keynes and Central Beds. This is an exciting opportunity for the right teacher to join Swallowfield Primary in September 2025. We are now a full primary school (converted from a lower school) with excellent resources and facilities to ensure a great curriculum offer.

Arranging a visit to Swallowfield Primary

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g.mcgill@swallowfieldprimary.com.

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