Class Teacher - Primary
Wren Academy Finchley, London, N12 9HB5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
31 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- plus Wren allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Degree
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Experience as a good/outstanding teacher
- Ability to use technology to enhance teaching and learning
- Experience in using data to inform planning and future developments
- Experience in monitoring and evaluating lessons
- Ability to communicate with pupils, with parents and other professionals
- Knowledge of use of data systems to support target setting, review and tracking of children’s progress and the use of data to support teacher planning
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to establish and communicate clear standards and expectations
- Ability to communicate to a high standard, both in written and oral form
- Be Committed to maintaining an inclusive Christian ethos in the Academy.
- High expectations of self and others
- Qualities and standards driven
- Demonstrates a positive attitude and commitment to equality
- Encourages ideas, initiatives and innovation in others
- Highly motivated showing resilience, stamina and reliability under pressure
- Manages own time well to meet competing demands
- Ability to relate well to children and young people, parents and members of the community
- Ability to work in a friendly and considerate manner within and across school teams
- Ability to foster a positive ethos
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Experience of teaching in a range of year groups
- Experience in curriculum design
What the school offers its staff
Wren has benefitted from a £23.4 million building programme with our Sixth Form Centre, being completed in October 2012 and our Primary in 2016. We now have a campus that is architecturally innovative and visually impressive with a high emphasis being placed on environmental sustainability. The buildings provide for a wide range of teaching and learning approaches with larger, flexible learning areas and smaller group rooms alongside more traditional classrooms. The working environment for all staff is of a high quality.
Other benefits of teaching at Wren:
- Children of colleagues working at Wren for over two years are given priority for a place in Reception or Year 7
- An exceptionally talented and mutually supportive staff team who are open to change and driving things forward positively
- Talented, courteous and ambitious students
- A pleasant and attractive working environment
- Excellent professional development opportunities with personalised training and opportunities for career development
- A range of staff wellbeing projects
- Free refreshments and lunchtime allowance
- Planning and evaluation time during the school day
- Use of a school iPad and/or laptop
- Use of ‘Mark Mate’ an innovative use of technology which supports staff workload enormously as well as improving feedback for pupils.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@wrenacademiestrust.org
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wren Academy Finchley
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1614 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Wren Academy Finchley website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@wrenacademiestrust.org
Wren Academy Finchley is located in the London Borough of Barnet. It is the founder of the Wren Academies Trust, a MAT which is sponsored by the Church of England and Berkhamsted School. The Academy has developed a strong reputation for outstanding teaching and learning, as demonstrated by our Progress 8 figure, which places us in the top 65 schools nationally. We are an all-through school with a thriving sixth form and a primary phase which opened in September 2015. The engaging curriculum and state of the art buildings have contributed to the Academy’s notable success. There is also a strong focus on student well-being so that every individual is happy and secure to learn and thrive within a caring community.
Wren is a MAT and plans are well advanced to create a new school in a neighbouring borough which will provide exciting professional development opportunities for all staff.
Arranging a visit to Wren Academy Finchley
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@wrenacademiestrust.org.
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