Class Teacher (Holme and Hinchliffe Mill Schools)
Holme Junior and Infant School, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, HD9 2QQ13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 May 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 (Can be done as a job share): Mixed phase teaching in our infant class from Reception – Year 2 at Holme School for two days per week. Mixed phase teaching in our Lower Key Stage 2 class (Years 3 and 4) at Hinchliffe Mill School for two to three days per week.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1st September 2025 - 31st August 2026
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an effective, enthusiastic and creative classroom teacher to join our small but dedicated team working alongside our senior leaders as a job share.
This post will require:
- Mixed phase teaching in our infant class from Reception – Year 2 at Holme School for two days per week.
- Mixed phase teaching in our Lower Key Stage 2 class (Years 3 and 4) at Hinchliffe Mill School for two to three days per week.
The successful candidate should have high expectations and be able to motivate children to make good progress. Relevant experience of teaching in Reception and/or Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2 is preferable.
If you are a committed, energetic, inspirational teacher and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you!
What the school offers its staff
What we can offer you:
- Happy, enthusiastic children who are eager to learn.
- Friendly and supportive staff, governors and parents.
- A highly committed team that embraces change.
- A strong local partnership of schools.
- An outstanding working environment.
- Excellent professional development opportunities.
In return, we are looking for a teacher who is:
- An outstanding classroom practitioner with high expectations.
- Committed to raising standards by being passionate about enabling every child to fulfil their potential.
- Willing to be fully involved in the life of the school.
- Excellent at building good working relationships with children, parents, staff and governors.
Further details about the role
This is a wonderful opportunity to work in two small village schools that ensures children make the best progress possible and are offered many different opportunities during their time with us. Please visit our school websites to learn more about us:
Holme School - https://www.holmejischool.co.uk
Hinchliffe Mill School – https://www.hinchliffemillschool.org.uk
Applications are welcome from newly qualified teachers and those with teaching experience. We are able to support staff who are Early Career Teachers and provide the statutory needs required.
We would welcome and encourage that you come and visit one of our school settings. The planned tours are:
Hinchliffe Mill Junior & Infant School
- Tuesday 3rd June at 1:15pm
- Wednesday 4th June at 9:30am
- Thursday 5th June at 3:40pm
If you are interested in one of these tours, please call: 01484 689692 or e-mail office@hinchliffemillschool.org.uk
Holme Junior & Infant School
- Tuesday 3rd June at 9:30am
- Wednesday 4th June at 3:40pm
- Thursday 5th June at 1:15pm
If you are interested in one of these tours, please call: 01484 687362 or e-mail office@holmejischool.co.uk
Both schools will be closed for half term until Tuesday 3rd June. Please contact us via e-mail during this time to arrange a tour.
(Please note that there is currently a proposal to federate between Holme and Hinchliffe Mill Junior & Infant Schools. The preferred candidate will be placed onto a federation contract between the schools and could be deployed at any point between the schools and classes.)
Return completed applications to head@holmejischool.co.uk for the attention of the Executive Headteacher, Mr Damien Bond.
Shortlisting will take place on Friday 6th June. For those who are successful, tasks will take place on Wednesday 11th June and for those who are successful for the next stage, formal interviews will be held on Thursday 12th June.
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 head@holmejischool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Holme Junior and Infant School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 35 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Holme Junior and Infant School website
- Email address
- office@holmejischool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01484 687362
The school was built in 1880 and since that time has been the only school in Holme.
Extensions have been added, giving an upper level with an additional classroom, computer suite and a space that has been used for different purposes over time. Today the computer suite is now a classroom and the additional room is now a library, meeting room and intervention space. Over time class splits have developed into what we have today, which is Class 1 for children in Reception to Year 2 and Class 2 for children from Years 3 to 6. We are lucky to have Years 3 and 4 separately taught to Years 5 and 6 currently each morning for core subjects. We have a great space in stunning surroundings of the valley and Holme Moss. This enables a tremendous space for P.E. and outdoor/ mixed activities. Inside, the rooms are bright and airy with a good amount of space and modernised facilities. We have also improved the other outside play facilities with improved outdoor play equipment, a climbing wall, a multi use games area, early years area and currently developing a forest school area.
The school has always been very close to the community, where it serves and inspires a good deal of affection. We are the heartbeat of the village of Holme along with the public house, The Fleece. We work very closely alongside institutions within the village and use the Sunday School and The Fleece for productions, performances and meetings. We now also have our annual 'pub lunch' where all the children are invited at the end of the academic year to celebrate our achievements and the Year 6 Leavers. Within the local community there are many that attended the school up to seventy years ago and host open mornings for the local community and pupils of the past to attend and see how the school has developed over time.
Our staff has evolved with the changes in education over the last two decades. There have been a number of Headteachers and staff during this time and we last received a 'good' OFSTED judgement in the full inspection of January 2019. Since 2022, Mr Damien Bond, our current Headteacher, has developed our vision further, integrating new staff into our family, initiating further change and continuing to develop the building to meet the needs of the 21st century, whilst maintaining and enhancing our high standards of education and care.
We maintain a friendly and family oriented approach which results in a positive atmosphere which has been favourably commented on in visits from professionals who support and inspect us in our work.
The school is dedicated to the development of the whole child. To achieve that, we work in partnership with the children, their families, and the local and wider community throughout the whole year.
Arranging a visit to Holme Junior and Infant School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@holmejischool.co.uk.
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