Class Teacher to cover MAT leave - Year 4.
Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 4AGThis job expired on 26 September 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
5 January 2026
Closing date
26 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday full time.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 17.07.2026 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full time equivalent salary
- £32,916 Starting. M1 ECT.
What skills and experience we're looking for
Applicants must have the following: ∙
Qualified Teacher Status.
∙ Practical knowledge of strategies needed to establish consistently high aspirations and standards of results and behaviour.
∙ Strives to meets and exceed the Teacher standards.
∙ Has the ability to be an outstanding classroom practitioner with a creative and energetic approach to teaching and learning.
∙ The capability to demonstrate positive, high-quality interactions with young children.
∙ A flexible and willing approach to be fully involved in all Trust aims and objectives.
∙ The ability to build and maintain positive, effective relationships with children, families and colleagues.
∙ Excellent communication skills and have the desire to work as a proactive member of a complex
team.
What the school offers its staff
What we offer:
- A supportive leadership team committed to professional development for all staff.
- Access to a number of national partner schools operating at the very highest level.
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
- Being part of a family of schools within a values-based Trust.
- A comprehensive induction and support programme.
- Recognition of the importance of work life balance. Your emotional well-being is important to us. We strive to balance life and work. We endeavour to create the best possible environment in which you can grow and enjoy a genuinely fulfilling professional life.
- A passionate commitment to your continuing professional development with learning routes to match your interests and ambitions.
- Opportunity to work in partnership with colleagues across the Trust
Further information about the job
Main Purpose of the Role
To deliver high quality teaching and learning to pupils who are assigned to the post holder the teacher will teach a class of pupils, and ensure that planning, preparation, recording, assessment and reporting meet their varying learning and social needs. The post holder will be able to maintain the positive ethos and core values of the school, both inside and outside the classroom as well as being able to contribute to constructive team building amongst teaching and non-teaching staff, parents and governors.
✔ Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues as well as other professionals and institutions.
✔ Follow the teacher standards
✔ Work daily to develop the ethos of the school within the classroom so that it permeates the whole curriculum.
✔ Ensure the safeguarding of all children and report all concerns to the designated lead person by following the schools’ agreed policies and procedures
✔ Maintain good order and discipline amongst pupils, in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
Planning, Teaching and Class Management
✔ Plan and deliver lessons with regard for the school’s aims, policies and schemes of work.
✔ Provide clear structures for lessons which maintain pace, motivation, challenge and are differentiated to enable all children access to the curriculum.
✔ Make effective use of assessment information on pupil’s attainment and progress in planning future lessons.
✔ Keep appropriate and efficient records, integrating formative and summative assessment into weekly and termly planning.
✔ Ensure effective teaching of whole classes, groups and individuals, establishing high expectations of behaviour and attainment so that teaching objectives and good progress are consistently achieved.
✔ Create systems of organisation within the classroom to support teaching and learning and personal development of children.
✔ Know when and how to differentiate appropriately, using approaches which enable pupils to be taught effectively.
✔ Have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn, and how best to overcome these.
✔ Demonstrate an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of children, and know how to adapt teaching to support pupils’ education at different stages of development.
✔ Responsible for the behaviour of all children in accordance with the school behaviour policy and to encourage children to take responsibility for their own actions.
✔ Make effective use of resources (including other adults) to impact on pupil learning and progress.
✔ Create an exciting and interesting environment for teaching and learning to take place, in which children feel confident, secure and happy.
✔ Be familiar with the Code of Practice for SEN and be responsible for recognising the special needs of children and to provide an effective curriculum for them in consultation with the Head teacher, ISENCO and parents.
✔ Recognise and be aware of medical and behavioural needs and to develop and implement appropriate strategies, records and support systems in consultation with outside agencies.
✔ Strive to improve personal skills and talents through self-evaluation and identification of further professional needs.
Monitoring, assessment, recording and reporting
✔ Assess and record each pupil’s progress systematically with reference to the school’s current Assessment Policy and use the results to inform planning.
✔ Mark and monitor class work and homework, providing constructive feedback and setting targets enabling the child to make further progress.
✔ Provide verbal and written reports, formal and informal, on individual pupil progress, to the Head teacher, Senior Leaders and parents as required.
General
✔ Participate in meetings which relate to the school’s leadership, curriculum, administration or organisation.
✔ Participate, as required in meetings with colleagues, parents and other professionals in respect of duties and responsibilities of the post.
✔ Take responsibility for personal professional development.
✔ Supervise the work of any support staff, including cover supervisors and support teachers, who are assigned to work with the post holder’s pupils.
✔ Provide leadership across the school in a designated subject or curriculum area to include: Monitoring quality and standards.
Contributing to school planning and self-evaluation.
Provide professional support to other teachers and support staff.
Advising the Headteacher on appropriate resources and materials.
Leading appropriate professional development.
✔ Liaise with staff and other relevant professionals and provide information about pupils as appropriate.
✔ Plan and deliver with support assemblies which help to develop the moral, social and emotional development
of the children.
✔ Implement agreed school policies and guidelines.
General
✔ Attendance at staff meetings and Trust training activities where relevant.
✔ Participate in performance management
✔ As this post requires working in Schools a DBS and barred lists check at the enhanced level will be required.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 241 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- h.canadine@wwg.wwpat.org
- Phone number
- 01709 541878
Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant school is an exceptional school. It is a place where children excel both academically and personally. It is an outstanding school and one of 34 English Hubs
Arranging a visit to Whiston Worrygoose Junior and Infant School
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