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Class Teacher
St Fidelis Catholic Primary School, Erith, Kent, DA8 3HQ21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 April 2025
Job details
Job role
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): Full time = Monday-Friday 32.5 hours per week Part time will be considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS or UPS dependent on Experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
Category
Essential
Desirable
Education and Training
Qualified Teacher Status.
Degree or Equivalent.
Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies.
A commitment to further professional development.
Experience
Evidence of being an excellent classroom practitioner.
Experience of working in a Catholic School.
Experience of leading or assisting beyond the individual classroom.
Faith Commitment
Practising Catholic or demonstrates an understanding and commitment to the ethos and distinctive nature of a Catholic school.
Commitment to participate in the faith life of the community.
Knowledge and Understanding
The class teacher should have working knowledge and understanding of:
Current practices and strategic developments in primary education.
A working knowledge of the requirements of the National Curriculum.
Strategies to promote effective Learning and Teaching.
Strategies to develop children’s phonic and reading skills.
Understand and use assessment and record keeping as a means of planning for differentiated Teaching and Learning.
The statutory requirements of legislation concerning Child Protection/Safeguarding requirements and the Teacher Standards.
A working knowledge and understanding of how Religious Education is taught in a Catholic School.
A broad range of interests and a commitment to providing a rich curriculum experience for the children.
Skills and Abilities
The class teacher will:
Have high expectations of attainment and behaviour.
Be an excellent communicator with good organisational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.
Be confident in the use of ICT to support learning.
Personal Attributes
The successful candidate will be:
Willing to share ideas, energy and initiative.
Enthusiastic and excited about teaching children.
Committed to school improvement and raising pupil achievement.
Committed to an inclusive education.
A team player, keen to engage in all aspects of the life of our school.
Committed to working with parents and the wider community.
What the school offers its staff
St Fidelis is a high performing school in the London Borough of Bexley. The school employs specialist teachers for music and PE who work alongside our class teachers to ensure every child receives a broad and balanced curriculum.
You will work alongside a year group partner in our two-form entry school to plan, teach and assess children’s academic development so that every child makes progress.
You will be articulate and positive, able to work in an atmosphere characterised by our mission of compassion, challenge and excellence.
If you would like to work with our exceptional children, this might be the opportunity you have been looking for.
You can apply for this position by completing an application form that you can download from our website: www.st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk/vacancies
If you would like an initial confidential conversation to learn more about the position contact the Executive Head Teacher, Mark Hannon:
Email:
head@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk
Mobile:
07763 142903
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to mhannon1.303@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Fidelis Catholic Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 458 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Fidelis Catholic Primary School website
- Email address
- scrumley.303@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01322 337752
St Fidelis is a successful and popular school. Integral to the school’s success is a determination to only recruit staff of the highest calibre. There is an expectation that our children only deserve our very best.
St Fidelis is a highly rewarding place to work. Staff are developed and supported in order to be the very best that they can be. Over the last three and a half years teachers within our school have been developed to take on senior leadership roles both within and beyond the school. There has been one appointed to headship, four to deputy headship and three to assistant headship. This is as a consequence of the career opportunities the school offers and the high regard that staff from St Fidelis are held in by colleagues from other schools.
Arranging a visit to St Fidelis Catholic Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email scrumley.303@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk.
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