Class Teacher
Barton Park Primary School, Oxford, OX3 9WN29 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 26 (Sept 26 also considered)
Closing date
18 January 2026 at 10:59pm
Date listed
20 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,823.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) M2 - U3
Class Teacher job summary
Class Teacher
Barton Park Primary School within The River Learning Trust, OX3 9WN
Main Scale: M2 - UPS
About this role
Barton Park Primary School is at the heart of a vibrant new community on the north-eastern edge of Oxford. We are proud to support children from a wide range of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, fostering an environment where every voice is valued. Currently judged as a ‘Good’ school, we are at an exciting stage of development—building on our successes and growing in both size and strength.
We have high aspirations for all our children. Our curriculum is designed to provide rigorous and engaging learning opportunities, where oracy and enquiry are central. We aim to nurture each child’s natural curiosity, helping them become resilient, confident learners who embody our values of responsibility, respect, equality, kindness, and perseverance. We are also proud that our academic data remains competitive with national averages, a testament to our pupils' hard work and the dedication of our staff, who consistently go the extra mile to ensure all our children make great progress from their starting points.
If we sound like a school that fits your ethos, we’d love to hear from you. We warmly welcome candidates to visit us, meet our team, and see our learners in action. Please email office@bartonparkprimary.org to arrange a visit.
This role has become available as a maternity cover, but is offered as a permanent post due to natural school growth. The role is in KS2 but experience in KS1 is also welcomed due to school growth. An April 26 start date is preferred, but we are open to a September 26 start date for the right candidate.
What skills / experience are required?
Qualified Teacher Status (UK)
A secure knowledge of how children learn and adaptive teaching methods to ensure excellent progress for all.
A proven track record in raising standards
Experience in teaching in either Key Stage Two or Key Stage One and a good knowledge of the curriculum.
Good interpersonal skills
The ability to excite, inspire and motivate pupils.
A commitment to evidence based approaches and an openness to new ideas and research
Excellent classroom behaviour management through a range of positive strategies.
A commitment to success through effort and teamwork
A commitment to your own continued professional development.
A willingness to be fully involved in the life of the school.
Patience, and a sense of humour.
What we can offer
The successful candidate will be joining a school with:
A diverse school community.
Vibrant and curious children, who are eager to learn and love to please.
A wonderful new-build school, which is well-resourced with space to spare.
A supportive leadership team and governing body.
As part of the River Learning Trust, we can also offer you an excellent network of professional support and CPLD that will help you grow as a professional through access to some of the county’s best teachers and leaders.
A commitment to wellbeing and workload.
Flexible working and job share/part time applications will be considered.
PPA can be taken at home, by arrangement.
Visits to the school are positively encouraged. If you wish to find out more about our school or this role, you are invited to contact the Headteacher for a discussion and/or tour of the school. Please do so via our office: office@bartonparkprimary.org / 01865415800
How to apply / closing date / where to find further details
NB. Online applications through MyNewTerm
Closing Date for applications: 10pm, Sunday 18th January 2026
Shortlisting: Monday 19th January 2026
Interviews: Week of 26 January 2026
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Bryony McCraw, Headteacher, about the role, prior to application, then please email office@bartonparkprimary.org or telephone 01865 415800.
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Barton Park Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 179 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Barton Park Primary School website
Barton Park School is a new primary school, including a nursery, on the Barton Park Housing Development situated on the outskirts of the City of Oxford. Our school opened in September 2020 to children in reception and a mixed years 1 & 2 class. The school will grow over the coming years with a final capacity of 315, with a potential to expand further to 420, subject to community demand.
Our place within the heart of a new and developing community, with easy walking, cycle and bus routes, is a perfect location for families and staff alike. Our lovely new building and the fantastic facilities available on site, along with our neighbouring sports pavilion, make for a very special place for children to learn and flourish - and for teaching staff to teach.
We have high aspirations for all our children. Our curriculum is designed to provide children with high quality, rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Enquiry and creativity are central to our learning, and these principles are underpinned by a solid foundation in the key skills. We aim to build on each child’s natural curiosity and help them become enquiring, resilient and confident learners, able to communicate their ideas to both peers and adults. Quality teaching, targeted support and enriching, open-ended learning opportunities - alongside well planned indoor and outdoor environments - allow all children to develop their thinking skills, independence and individual talents.
Our six school values were chosen in collaboration with the school community: respect, kindness, equality, independence, perseverance, curiosity. It is important to us that these values reflect both emotional and intellectual growth and that they can be embraced by everyone within our diverse community.
Barton Park is committed to offering a variety of extra-curricular activities after school and developing these opportunities as we grow. Our children already enjoy access to dance, sports, art and music clubs, led by experts and have had the chance to perform on the stage at Pegasus Theatre and The Town Hall. Such experiences are key to fostering confidence and self-belief, as well as extending horizons and understanding of others.
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