Class Teacher

Holton St Peter Community Primary School, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8PL

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  16 April 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• 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: £32,916.00 - £45,352.00 Annually (Actual)

Class Teacher job summary

Post: Key Stage One Class Teacher - this post is also suitable for ECT's Salary: Main Pay Scale Contract Details: Full Time Job Type: Permanent

We are a deeply inclusive school, proactively adapting our learning, curriculum, and provision to ensure every child, with their unique needs, can reach their full potential. Our clear and simple school rules - Ready, Respectful, and Safe - create a positive and supportive environment where everyone can thrive. We have a great curriculum that hooks children’s interest as well as exciting visitors and enriching trips so that the children are given opportunities that open their eyes to new experiences and inspire them to achieve great things they never thought possible. What makes our learning truly special is that at its core, we work to empower children to understand their rights and ensure they use their voice to advocate for themselves. We have a full time Thrive practitioner, Forest School Leader and a Complete Human Strategy Leader who work closely together to ensure everyone’s wellbeing and emotional development is at the forefront of our minds when making decisions about the strategic direction of our school. Therefore, children leave our school as independent, knowledgeable, responsible people ready to take the next step in their learning journey.

Our enthusiastic and dedicated staff are the driving force behind the success of our school. They are flexible and adaptable, always putting the needs of the children first. With a commitment to continuous improvement, our staff regularly engage in high-quality professional development, both within the school, across the trust, and externally, ensuring they are at the forefront of educational best practice. Holton St Peter Primary School isn't just in the community, it's at the heart of it.

We are looking for an excellent teacher who:

• Can provide high quality education for pupils in a mixed age class

• Has high expectations and aspirations for all children.

• Is able to facilitate exciting, engaging and enriching learning opportunities for all children

• Delivers consistently excellent teaching and a commitment to supporting others develop high quality teaching and learning opportunities for pupils of all abilities

• Is enthusiastic and motivated

• Is a team player and can work collaboratively with others

• Has high expectations and aspirations for all pupils

• Demonstrates initiative and creative thinking

• Is committed to raising standards within the classroom and across the curriculum

• Has excellent behaviour management skills

• Has a secure knowledge and understanding of the Curriculum and its expectations

• Has a good understanding of the importance of safeguarding being everyone’s responsibility

• Has experience of teaching high quality phonics and early maths lessons

• Has boundless enthusiasm, caring nature and a sense of humour!

In return, we can offer you:

• An opportunity to join Holton St Peter Primary School; a school that is thriving and is at the centre of the community

• Happy pupils with very good behaviour and attitudes to learning.

• Supportive colleagues, leaders, governors and parents

• A high quality induction and continuing professional development opportunities

• A school that nurtures children and staff, and gives them the opportunity to thrive and succeed

• The opportunity to make a difference

If you are interested in this job opportunity, visits to our school are strongly encouraged and warmly welcomed. For further details, or to arrange an initial visit please contact:

Heather Woodley, Office Manager on 01986 872297 or email: office@holtonstpeterschool.co.uk

Please also see our website - https://www.holtonstpeterschool.co.uk/

ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

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.

About Holton St Peter Community Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 130 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Holton St Peter Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/holton-st-peter-community-primary-school-halesworth

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