Class Teacher
Christchurch Infant School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 2AE14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
21 April 2025
Closing date
29 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an exceptional, inspirational, dynamic Class Teacher? We are looking to appoint a highly motivated Class Teacher at Christchurch Infant School.
Our vision is to foster a lifelong love for learning by creating a dynamic and engaging curriculum that encourages curiosity, independence and a joy in discovery. We have recently joined Twynham Learning and this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a friendly and dedicated team on the journey of improvement. We are looking to employ an individual with passion for providing a world class education for all of our children and a drive to be the best that they can be!
We warmly welcome you to visit our school; please call the school office to arrange a tour with the Headteacher.
To discuss the post or your application, please contact Laura Tobin on 01202 485851 or email us atrecruitment@twynhamlearning.com
What the school offers its staff
What we can offer you
- The opportunity to work with the best team of staff and the most wonderful community
- An exceptional CPD offer from ECT through to preparation for senior leadership
- A personalised approach to appraisal where we support you to challenge yourself to be the very best
- The opportunity to work within Twynham Learning; a progressive multi-academy trust
- The opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful areas of the South Coast
- Automatic membership of the Teachers Pension Scheme
- Free on-site parking
- Further Information
- Christchurch Infant Schoolvalues the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
- Christchurch Infant Schoolis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
- The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.
- The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.
- This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
- This post isexempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
- Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Christchurch Infant Schoolwill conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
Further details about the role
Job Description: CLASSROOM TEACHER
Post Details
School:
Christchurch Infant School
Grade:
MPS
Weeks per year:
Full time
Duration:
Permanent
Responsible to:
Headteacher
Main Purpose
- To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for pupils and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
- To monitor and support the overall progress and development of pupils as a teacher.
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides pupils with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
- To contribute to raising standards of pupil attainment.
- To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Operational/ Strategic Planning
- To assist in the development of resources, schemes of work, marking policies and teaching strategies in all the curriculum areas.
- To contribute to the school development plan and its implementation.
- To plan and prepare and lessons.
- To contribute to the whole school’s planning activities.
Curriculum Provision:
- To assist the Headteacher to ensure that the curriculum area provides a range of teaching which complements the school’s strategic objectives.
Curriculum Development:
- To assist in the process of curriculum development and change so as to ensure the continued relevance to the needs of students and the school’s mission and strategic objectives.
Staffing
Staff Development: Recruitment/ Deployment of Staff
- To take part in the school’s staff development programme by participating in arrangements for further training and professional development.
- To continue personal development in the relevant areas including subject knowledge and teaching methods.
- To engage actively in the appraisal review process.
- To ensure the effective/efficient deployment of classroom support
To work as a member of a designated team and to contribute positively to effective working relations within the school.
Quality Assurance:
- To help to implement school quality procedures and to adhere to those.
- To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of the curriculum in line with agreed school procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria. To seek/implement modification and improvement where required.
- To review from time to time methods of teaching and programmes of work.
- To take part, as may be required, in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school.
Management Information:
- To maintain appropriate records and to provide relevant accurate and up-to-date information for MIS, registers, etc.
- To complete the relevant documentation to assist in the tracking of pupils.
- To track pupil progress and use information to inform teaching and learning.
Communications:
- To communicate effectively with the parents of pupils as appropriate.
- Where appropriate, to communicate and co-operate with persons or bodies outside the school.
- To follow agreed policies for communications in the school.
Marketing and Liaison:
- To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as open evenings, parent’s evenings, review days and liaison events with partner schools.
- To contribute to the development of effective subject links with external agencies.
Management of Resources:
- To contribute to the process of the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
- To assist the Headteacher to identify resource needs and to contribute to the efficient/effective use of physical resources.
- To co-operate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the school and the pupils.
Pastoral System:
- To promote the general progress and well-being of individual pupils.
- To ensure the implementation of the school’s pastoral system.
- To register pupils, accompany them to assemblies and support their participation in other aspects of school life.
- To evaluate and monitor the progress of pupils and keep up-to-date pupil records as may be required.
- To contribute to the preparation of action plans and progress files and other reports.
- To alert the appropriate staff to problems experienced by pupils and to make recommendations as to how these may be resolved.
- To communicate as appropriate, with the parents of pupils and with persons or bodies outside the school concerned with the welfare of individual pupils, after consultation with the appropriate staff
- To contribute to PSHE and citizenship and enterprise according to school policy
- To apply the behaviour management systems so that effective learning can take place.
- Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the school’s Safeguarding and Child Protection policies.
Teaching:
- To teach, pupils according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupil in school and elsewhere.
- To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of pupils and to keep such records as are required.
- To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils.
- To ensure that ICT, literacy, numeracy and school subject specialism(s) are reflected in the teaching/learning experience of pupils
- To undertake a designated programme of teaching.
- To ensure a high quality learning experience for pupils which meets internal and external quality standards.
- To prepare and update subject materials.
- To use a variety of delivery methods which will stimulate learning appropriate to pupil needs and demands of the curriculum.
- To maintain discipline in accordance with the school’s procedures, and to encourage good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homelearning.
- To undertake assessment of pupils as requested by the school.
- To mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required.
Twynham Learning Attributes for all Staff
- Ambition for excellence
- Professionalism
- Humility
- Championing change
- Inclusiveness
- Positivity
- Community-mindedness
- Being collaborative
Personal Attributes
You are likely to be someone who is or has the potential to be:
- At the start of their teaching career
- An exceptional classroom teacher
- Has an understanding of effective pedagogy
- Understands how to enable pupils to achieve at the highest level
- Believes that league tables are not the main focus for education
Other Duties
- To play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its distinctive mission and ethos and to encourage staff and pupils to follow this example.
- To support the school in meeting its legal requirements for worship.
- To promote actively the school’s corporate policies.
- To continue personal development as agreed.
- To comply with the school’s Health and safety policy and undertake risk assessments as appropriate.
- To undertake any other duty as specified by STPCD not mentioned in the above.
All Twynham Learning staff may periodically be expected to carry out tasks and duties within their area of competence that are not listed herein, as directed, to meet the needs of the Trust. The particular duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time.
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
Employees are expected to be courteous to colleagues and provide a welcoming environment to visitors and telephone callers.
Notes
- The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.
- This job description is current at the date shown, but following consultation with you, may be changed by management to reflect or anticipate changes in the job which are commensurate with the salary and job title.
Key/Glossary of Terms
PSHE – Personal, Social, Health and Economic
ICT – Information and Communications Technology
STPCD – School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document
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 Christchurch Infant School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 360 pupils
- Age range
- 5 to 7
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Christchurch Infant School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@christchurchinf.dorset.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01202 485851
Arranging a visit to Christchurch Infant School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@christchurchinf.dorset.sch.uk.
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