Class teacher
Lower Wortley Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 4PX4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time hours: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Teachers pay scale - M1-M5; UPS1-3
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- Be an exemplary classroom practitioner with high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and learning
- Actively contribute to the year group team and play a full role in the whole life of the school including our extra-curricular provision
- Be committed to ensuring that learning is effective for all children, including those with SEND
- Have a clear understanding of how to use assessment to identify learning needs in order to support the development of all children
- Be hardworking, organised and able to meet deadlines
- Be able to demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and their families
- Demonstrate the ability to be an effective subject leader and contribute to the implementation and monitoring of our school curriculum
- Show dedication to our curriculum drivers of citizenship, ambition and resilience.
What the school offers its staff
Our school’s professional culture includes:
- Respect and Understanding – politeness, consideration and care for all
- Equity – everyone treated fairly according to their needs
- Promotion of Welfare – ensuring physical and mental health, and positive wellbeing
- Collective Responsibility – shared aims and accountability
- Everyone a learner – thoughtful and reflective improvement
In addition we can offer:
- the opportunity to work as part of a large, talented and supportive staff team;
- the opportunity to work with pupils who are keen to work hard and display very good attitudes to learning;
- a highly supportive, experienced leadership team;
- training relevant to the role;
Further details about the role
Any questions about the application process, please contact Mrs C. Harte – Business Manager.
Completed applications should be sent to Mrs C. Harte at admin@lwps.org.uk by midnight on Thursday 19th June 2025.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 26th June 2025. If candidates have not received an invitation to interview by Friday 20th June 2025 then please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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)
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 admin@lwps.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lower Wortley Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 331 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lower Wortley Primary School website
- Email address
- admin@lwps.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0113 3230152
At Lower Wortley Primary School we aim to provide a safe and stimulating environment where each child can fulfil their learning potential through a broad and engaging curriculum designed around the core principles of citizenship, ambition and resilience. We encourage all children to work hard and strive for success in everything they do. It is equally important to us that the children are happy at school and enjoy being part of school life.
Lower Wortley Primary is a one-and-a-half form entry maintained school located in Wortley, a suburb in the west of Leeds. Our catchment is mixed in nature, with very deprived neighbourhoods to the west of the school, while there are areas with lower levels of deprivation to the south, north and east. At least a quarter of the school’s pupils live in areas of high or very high deprivation, while most of the other pupils live in areas which had broadly average levels of deprivation.
Arranging a visit to Lower Wortley Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@lwps.org.uk.
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