Class Teacher
Ark Blacklands Primary Academy, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 2HUThis job expired on 30 March 2020
Job start date
1 September 2020
Closing date
30 March 2020 at 9am
Date listed
12 March 2020
Job details
Job role
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Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Main pay range 6, £24,982 to £36,870
Additional allowances
What we can offer you:
• A strong, highly committed community that adopts a collaborative team approach.
• A large and highly trained team of pastoral and teaching support staff.
• A multitude of opportunities to progress your career through our programme of outstanding CPD. We will support you to become the best you can be.
• You will have access to health packages, discounts at major retailers, travel loans and other benefits, through the Ark Rewards schemeArk Employee Benefits:
As a teacher at Ark Blacklands, you will be part of Ark, an international charity and one of the UK's most successful multi-academy trusts. With 37 schools in the UK, in Hastings, Birmingham, London and Portsmouth each of our schools has its own distinctive character but benefits from the support a large network brings.
Click here to find out more about the benefits of working for Ark Blacklands Primary Academy.
Class Teacher job summary
The Role
To deliver outstanding teaching and learning in order to help pupils achieve excellent academic results and be a role-model/impact the academy more widely.
To design an engaging and challenging curriculum that inspires children to appreciate the range of subjects and their application.
Key Responsibilities
• To plan, resource and deliver lessons and sequences of lessons to the highest standard that ensure real learning takes place and pupils make superior progress
• To provide a nurturing classroom and academy environment that helps pupils to develop as learners
• To help to maintain discipline across the whole academy
• To contribute to the effective working of the academy.
Outcomes and Activities - Teaching and Learning
• Enrich the curriculum with trips and visits to enhance the learning experience of all pupils
• With direction from the Principal and within the context of the academy’s curriculum and schemes of work, plan and prepare effective teaching modules and lessons
• Teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve pupil attainment
• Use regular assessments to set targets for pupils, monitor pupil progress and respond accordingly to the results of such monitoring
• Produce or contribute to written assessments, reports and references relating to individual and groups of pupils
• Develop plans and processes for the classroom with measurable results and evaluate those results to make improvements in pupil achievement
• Ensure that all pupils reach their potential
• Maintain regular and productive communication with pupils, parents and carers, to report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications
• Direct and supervise support staff assigned to lessons and when required participate in related recruitment and selection activities
• Implement and adhere to the academy’s behaviour management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of pupils is maintained at all times
• Participate in preparing pupils for external examinations.
Academy Culture
• Support the academy’s values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies practices and procedures
• Help create a strong academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships
• Help develop a culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
• To be active in issues of pupil welfare and support
• Support and work in collaboration with colleagues and other professionals in and beyond the school, covering lessons and providing other support as required.
Other
• Undertake, and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development
• Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the line manager or Principal
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies.
Ark requires all employees to undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
About Ark Blacklands Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 629 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- n.rankin@arkblacklandsprimary.org
Ark Blacklands Primary Academy is Hastings' fastest-improving primary school. Located near the 109-acre Alexandra Park, we recently celebrated having the most improved SATs results in the area and features an innovative outdoor learning centre and greenhouse which supplies fresh produce to the school canteen.
We are a growing school with a new intake each year of 3 forms, with 90 pupils in each year group, from reception through to year 5, and 75 pupils in year 6. Our staff make a tremendous effort to get to know each pupil and provide them with the very best care.
As part of the Ark schools’ network, we are committed to making sure that every child has access to a great education and real choices in life. We know that great schools need great staff, which is why we offer you the very best training and support at every stage of your career.
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