Class Teacher
Mousehole School, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6QQ13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
25 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.6 FTE
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1st Sept 2025 - 31st August 2026
Actual salary
- M1 - M6 @ 0.6 FTE £18,990 - £26,164
What skills and experience we're looking for
About The Role:
Truro and Penwith Academy Trust, together with the Local Monitoring Committee of Mousehole School are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed teacher. Mousehole School is in a beautiful, harbour village setting between Penzance and Lands’ End, with excellent facilities and easy access to the most wonderful outdoor learning environments. The real strength of the school lies in the people, staff, children, parents and governors, we are proud of our school and work hard to provide a caring and stimulating environment for learning. We share an ethos which promotes high standards in academic achievement allied with a broad, stimulating, hands on curriculum. We celebrate and encourage the talents and skills of all our children. Our aim is to foster independent and curious learners who are able and willing to make a positive contribution to our community and society.
This is a job share position; you will be working closely with an experienced teacher. The person appointed will need to ensure that all pupils receive a good quality education through a programme designed to promote a stimulatingstyle of learning in a safe and healthy school environment.
About You:
You will have a child-centred approach and will provide a creative, inclusive and challenging curriculum which inspires and motivates children and supports high quality teaching and learning both indoors and out. Ideally you will have experience within the Early Years setting and Key Stage One and will share our vision and values to develop our lovely village school from September 2025. Individuals must demonstrate a significant contribution, teamwork and flexibility to small primary school life.
What the school offers its staff
Working for TPAT and Benefits
‘The Trust that Schools want to join’Ofsted - 2019
We are an inclusive and progressive Trust and believe that all children and young people should have the best possible life chances. If you share this belief, we would love you to work with us.
We care about our staff and value their skills, contribution and expertise. Our commitment to growing great people means that we support staff in their own professional growth and development and empower them through support and career opportunities. Whether you choose to work in one of our schools, or are based in our central team, you will thrive in a stimulating, friendly and diverse environment that nurtures talent and celebrates success.
If you choose to work for us, you will receive:
- A competitive salary
- National terms and conditions of employment and access to either Teachers Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye voucher scheme
- Access to CPD and career pathways to further develop your career
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides employees with free confidential advice and support on a variety of personal, family or workplace issueshhtps://www.employeeassistance.org.uk/
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.
About Mousehole School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 102 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mousehole School website
- Email address
- recruitment@tpacademytrust.org
Curriculum Intent
At Mousehole School we aim to achieve a happy, successful, warm, caring environment where children learn the knowledge and skills they need to reach their full potential and to be ready for the next step in their education. We aim to make the best of every opportunity to develop confidence, respect and a love of learning in all members of the school community.
Implementation
At Mousehole School we passionately believe that the primary school curriculum experience should be a wide and varied one. We rigorously and methodically teach children to read, write and use maths and we also teach them a wide range of knowledge and skills that we believe are important for making them happy and productive members of society.
Impact
We monitor our curriculum through internal procedures involving all teaching staff and regular learning forums involving governors and staff. We work closely and openly with the Truro Penwith Education Trust to ensure our judgements are moderated externally and lead to further improvements in curriculum delivery.
Arranging a visit to Mousehole School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@tpacademytrust.org.
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