Class Teacher - Key Stage 2
The Meadows Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 3AZDeadline is today
Start date details
Sept 2024
Closing date
3 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
18 April 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5
Contract type
- Fixed term - FTC ends 31st May 2025
Full-time equivalent salary
- M1- UPS3, £30,000 – £46,525 FTE salary per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Meadows Primary Academy is an ambitious and inclusive community school with passion for delivering high quality education.
Our staff are innovative, hardworking and motivated. We are seeking to appoint professional and dedicated class teachers to help us provide a supportive, stimulating environment and to share our high expectations of achievement for all our children. We are looking for a Key Stage 2 teacher to cover a maternity leave of one of our teachers from September 2024 until until 31st May 2025.
This post would suit either an ECT or a more experienced teacher.
We welcome applications from individuals, who care about people and are able to form strong relationships. They will motivate and inspire others to strive for the best.
We are looking for someone who is:
- An outstanding teacher
- Committed to working with staff and students to help them achieve their potential
- Able to create a culture and ethos where all students can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning
- Creative and able to embrace the challenges of The Meadows
- An excellent communicator and demonstrates openness and honesty
- An excellent team player who enjoys working collaboratively
- Able to inspire and motivate children and staff
- Highly skilled in managing personal interactions
- Resilient under pressure
In return for dedication, we can offer:
- Child focused team and environment,
- Incredible community of children, parents and carers who deserve only the best,
- Balanced approach to wellbeing and workload,
- Commitment to quality CPD, development and opportunities due to further school growth.
We are able to support applications from ECT’s, and have an incredible leadership and mentoring team who are able to offer ECT support and guidance for teachers at the start of their career.
If you would like an informal conversation regarding the post or a tour of the school prior to application, please contact Mrs Helen Cunliffe to arrange.
What the school offers its staff
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:
- Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Shaw Education Trustare a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
We believe that everyone has the potential to be extraordinary! To this end, our growing number of primary schools within the trust tirelessly pursue excellence through research-based collaboration and innovation. Our developing, Trust-wide, 3D Primary curriculum and pioneering Digital Strategy is designed to create inspirational, energetic and immersive learning experiences. These enable every child to flourish within a caring, stimulating and purposeful atmosphere; fully prepared for their next stage of life and learning.
We know that at primary school, the quality of teaching affects both children’s social behaviour and intellectual development. This age and stage of learning has a more powerful impact on children’s academic progress than any other educational sector. Home too has a vital part to play! - Recognised through extensive research, it is the importance of early experiences and the powerful combination of home, pre-school and primary school partnerships that set the foundations enabling our amazing children and pupils to succeed.
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.
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About The Meadows Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 363 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Meadows Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
The Meadows Primary Academy (formerly Blurton Primary School), situated in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, joined the Shaw Education Trust family on 1st January 2020.
At The Meadows, every child is encouraged to believe in themselves and to have high aspirations. Through promoting a positive attitude combined with a strong work ethic; our children know that they can do well in life if they work hard and aim high. This is woven into everything that we do through our core values of respect, positivity and collective responsibility.
We have a dynamic team of exceptional teachers and support staff who act as exemplary role models, educating and nurturing each child, enabling them to achieve high standards of academic attainment whilst also enabling them to become capable, caring and confident human beings. Also, over the past five years, we have achieved our aim of becoming an Attachment Aware School. Through this, we are committed to working to establish attachment-like relationships with our children, particularly with challenging and vulnerable children, in order to improve their chances of learning and achieving.
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