Class Teacher KS1

Dauntsey Academy Primary School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 4HY

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  26 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)

Class Teacher KS1 job summary

Dauntsey Academy is a ‘good’ (Ofsted March 2020), single form entry primary school with 190 pupils on roll. We are nestled in the village of West Lavington, near Devizes, surrounded by fields and our beautiful grounds. We have an exciting opportunity for someone who would relish making a difference to the lives of our inquisitive, kind and well-behaved learners.

We are looking for a highly skilled, creative and nurturing KS1 class teacher to join our team from September 2025 with responsibility for teaching Year one. You will need to have a passion for providing pupils with the highest standard of education, inspiring them to develop lifelong learning skills and ensuring they thrive in a school in which they feel safe and valued.

At DAPS we passionately believe that young children learn best through play and exploration, this is why in Year one, we have built on the excellent practice found in EYFS. Continuous provision sparks curiosity and promotes challenge in learning, allowing children to explore their own interests independently. Our children are taught through a carefully planned blend of whole class lessons together on the carpet and small group work at the tutor table to enable their learning to be appropriately supported and challenged. Children also have time to demonstrate and deepen their learning in continuous provision which we call Discovery Learning time, supported by an adult. During this time, the children have continuous access to a wide range of resources indoors and outdoors which have been carefully selected to support their learning, allowing them to follow their own lines of enquiry. Our children are introduced to weekly challenges called Rainbow Challenges, where they can independently apply skills which have previously been taught. This allows our children to demonstrate their understanding independently which in turn allows staff to plan the next steps in the children's learning journey. Areas of provision will often be enhanced to make links to adult led learning, providing opportunities for our children to practice and consolidate previous learning.

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

Demonstrate a passion for delivering consistent high-quality teaching, alongside imaginative and innovative learning

Have experience of leading continuous provision, and a deep understanding that the adult is key to the success of a system which allows children to pursue their own interests

Be able to create a stimulating and well-maintained environment for all children

Have high expectations of yourself and others and have the ability to motivate and inspire children

Be a good team player, who can contribute to whole school initiatives

Have excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills

Have a warm personality, a good sense of humour and the ability to smile through anything the job throws at you!

Enjoy outdoor learning and delivering a rich, exciting curriculum

Have an ongoing commitment to your own professional development and wellbeing

We can offer:

Respectful children with strong positive learning attitudes who are engaging and keen to learn

A vibrant working environment, which combines and values the best of individual strengths, personal areas of interest and school-wide structure

A newly developed, rich and varied curriculum

Large grounds with an onsite Forest School area and a passion for outdoor learning

A friendly staff team with a strong, warm ethos of working together

Supportive parents, governors and school community

Dauntsey Academy Primary School reserve the right to close the application deadline earlier than posted.

For further information, job description and person specification please view the attached documents.

This role will involve contact with children and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.

This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow Safer Recruitment procedures and all interviews, regardless of role, will include questions about approaches to safeguarding. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available on our website and follows all guidance in the most recent Keeping Children Safe in Education.

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exception Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Please note that by submitting an application, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to view any publicly available information published online (including social media platforms) as part of our shortlisting process, in line with current KCSIE guidelines.

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.

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About Dauntsey Academy Primary School

• School type: Academy, Christian, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 197 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dauntsey Academy Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dauntsey-academy-primary-school

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