Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)
Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3EF4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 June 2025
Closing date
23 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 10 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you committed to learning and teaching?
Are you looking to develop yourself?
Are you ready to be part of our learning community?
Come and join us! Help make us our schools ‘Stand out!’
What the school offers its staff
Techscheme
Cycle to work scheme
Staff Care Services
Further details about the role
Class Teacher Maternity Leave
June 2025 – April 2026
Are you committed to learning and teaching? Are you looking to develop yourself? Are you ready to be part of our learning community?
Come and join us! Help make us our schools ‘Stand out!’
We are looking for an experienced teacher for a Key Stage 2 position from June 2025 for Maternity cover, who will help us to maintain the excellent practice across our school.
We are seeking to appoint an energetic, highly motivated, dynamic and forward thinking teacher who places children at the centre of school life, ensuring every child achieves their full potential.
You will have high personal and professional standards, drive and energy with a teaching ability at a high level which will provide a role model for all.
Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School has a very strong Christian, caring ethos and seeks to inspire every one of our pupils to explore their intellectual curiosity, to develop the appropriate skills and social abilities of all children. We believe through Christian teaching and example our children will benefit and be enriched.
We have recently renewed our status as a flagship Inclusion Quality Mark school and as such inclusion and access to the curriculum for all pupils and adults, not matter their needs and abilities is key. We have also worked hard to establish Writing for Pleasure across the school which combines well with our love of reading and status as an English Hub.
Our children are motivated, well behaved and a pleasure to work with. We take the progress of our staff and pupils seriously and can offer you good career development and the chance to work with our existing dedicated staff. We are a caring school, with enthusiastic and engaging children.
The successful candidate will be well supported by our whole school team.
Visits to the school are strongly encouraged and you will also find a wealth of information about our school on our websitewww.kingsnorth.kent.sch.uk.
If this position appeals to you, to make a real difference to pupil achievement, please contact the school office to arrange a visit or an informal conversation on01233 622673.
All applications are to be made via the Kent-teach application form.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 415 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School website
- Email address
- hr@aquilatrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01233 622673
Our school strives to serve the community by providing an excellent education for all pupils, of all abilities and backgrounds. We are a Church Controlled primary school and as such, work hard to preserve and develop our distinctive Christian character, liaising closely with the local church and Canterbury Diocese.
Our School Motto:
‘With faith, endeavour to achieve’
We converted to an academy (01 November 2015) through the Diocese of Canterbury Multi Academy Trust (Aquila). We took this decision to enable our school to have greater autonomy and have a greater say in how we are run now and in the future.
Arranging a visit to Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@aquilatrust.co.uk.
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