Class Teacher (Upper KS2)
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 6QN3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Experienced Educator:You will have a proven track record in upper Key Stage 2, with a strong understanding of end-of-year expectations and the National Curriculum. Your experience will help guide our pupils to success!
- Core Subject Leader:Whether your passion lies in Mathematics or English, you will take the lead in developing and enhancing our curriculum, ensuring it is engaging and effective for all learners.
- Behaviour Management Pro:Your exceptional behaviour management skills will create a positive, respectful, and engaging classroom environment where every pupil can flourish.
- SEND Champion:With a deep understanding of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), you will adapt your teaching to support all pupils, ensuring inclusivity in your classroom.
What the school offers its staff
- A Haven of Hope and Aspiration:Our school is a vibrant community where every child is nurtured with kindness and compassion. We celebrate our richly diverse pupils and encourage them to value themselves and others.
- Supportive Environment:Work alongside a team of outstanding educators who are committed to excellence and continuous improvement. You will have the opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and grow professionally.
- Leadership Opportunities:Are you looking to take your career to the next level? This role offers potential pathways into Senior Management Team (SMT) opportunities, allowing you to shape the future of our school.
- Workload:Two wellbeing days each academic year, subject leader time within the working day, end of term team planning days and access to AI programmes to enhance learning and planning opportunities.
Further details about the role
Are You Ready to Inspire the Next Generation?
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School, we are on the lookout for an enthusiastic and dedicated Upper Key Stage 2 Teacher who is ready to make a significant impact in the lives of our pupils! If you have a passion for teaching and a drive to help children thrive, we want to hear from you!
Why Join Us?
- A Haven of Hope and Aspiration:Our school is a vibrant community where every child is nurtured with kindness and compassion. We celebrate our richly diverse pupils and encourage them to value themselves and others.
- Supportive Environment:Work alongside a team of outstanding educators who are committed to excellence and continuous improvement. You will have the opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and grow professionally.
- Leadership Opportunities:Are you looking to take your career to the next level? This role offers potential pathways into Senior Management Team (SMT) opportunities, allowing you to shape the future of our school.
- Workload:Two wellbeing days each academic year, subject leader time within the working day, end of term team planning days and access to AI programmes to enhance learning and planning opportunities.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experienced Educator:You will have a proven track record in upper Key Stage 2, with a strong understanding of end-of-year expectations and the National Curriculum. Your experience will help guide our pupils to success!
- Core Subject Leader:Whether your passion lies in Mathematics or English, you will take the lead in developing and enhancing our curriculum, ensuring it is engaging and effective for all learners.
- Behaviour Management Pro:Your exceptional behaviour management skills will create a positive, respectful, and engaging classroom environment where every pupil can flourish.
- SEND Champion:With a deep understanding of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), you will adapt your teaching to support all pupils, ensuring inclusivity in your classroom.
Your Role:
As a KS2 Teacher, you will:
- Deliver dynamic and inspiring lessons that ignite a love for learning.
- Prepare pupils for their Key Stage 2 assessments, ensuring they are confident and ready to shine.
- Foster strong relationships with pupils, parents, and colleagues, building a community of support and encouragement.
Join Us on Our Journey!
If you are ready to embark on an exciting adventure in education and make a real difference in the lives of our pupils, we want to hear from you!
We encourage early applications and we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
Visits to the school are welcomed. If you would like to view the school please call the school office 01622 754666 or emailheadteacher@abc.aquilatrust.co.uk.
All applications must be made via the Kent Teach website.CVs will not be considered. References may be taken up prior to interviews. Please ensure email addresses are provided for referees.
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 Archbishop Courtenay Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 311 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Archbishop Courtenay Primary School website
- Email address
- hr@aquilatrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01622 754666
On behalf of myself and my team of dedicated staff and governors, I am delighted to welcome you to Archbishop Courtenay Primary School, a place where our children feel safe and secure, and know they are cherished.
Nurture extends beyond the classroom with our offer of support to families, along with our strong belief in fostering all our relationships with kindness and compassion. Our vision is threaded throughout our school, it is its heartbeat, it shapes everything we do. Archbishop Courtenay is a safe haven for all our community, offering hope and aspiration to all our children as they travel on their journey through our school. We offer a firm foundation for our unique and diverse pupils, respecting each child’s individuality to ensure they learn to value themselves and others, not only within our school family but beyond. We do this though our broad and balanced curriculum, providing a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of our children’s learning. We encourage our children to use their imaginations to inspire their love of learning and develop a sense of wonder.
We are guided along our spiritual path by God’s love, reflecting on the world, our lives, whilst drawing on our school values, compassion, friendship, resilience, aspiration and respect. This makes us part of a strong, resilient and proud community ready to thrive and flourish together.
Archbishop Courtenay Primary School is proud to be an active member of Aquila Trust. To find out more about the Trust, visit their website - www.aquilatrust.co.uk
We would love you to come and see our school in action so please do not hesitate to contact us direct and arrange a visit.
Arranging a visit to Archbishop Courtenay Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@aquilatrust.co.uk.
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