Class Teacher
Wantage Church of England Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DJThis job expired on 11 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
11 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)
Class Teacher job summary
About this Role
Wantage CE Primary School is a successful primary school in the heart of the historic market town of Wantage. We are a kind school where you can be yourself in a nurturing and caring environment.
We are seeking a passionate and qualified teacher who will be responsible for delivering high-quality teaching and learning to pupils at our school. You will foster a positive classroom environment and collaborate with colleagues to contribute to the overall success of the school.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver engaging lessons that cater to the needs of the children
- Create a positive and inclusive classroom environment
- Promote a love of learning
- Assess and monitor pupil progress
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop and implement effective teaching strategies
Requirements:
- A firm commitment to continuous professional development
- Strong classroom management skills
- Outstanding classroom practice and a commitment to ensuring the best possible outcomes for children
- Have a passion for inclusion and an understanding of a range of behaviours and needs
- Able to use own initiative, creativity and innovative ideas to motivate and inspire children
- Ability to establish positive working relationships with colleagues, parents/carers and children
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- A commitment to continuous professional development
Wantage CE Primary School:
We are an inclusive and caring school which is part of Cambrian Learning Trust. Along with a talented and dedicated team of staff, we strive to ensure children at Wantage CE are happy, cared for and are at the heart of everything we do. Our vision is ‘Learning for Life’ where everyone Learns, is Inspired, Flourishes and Enjoys being a member of our community of learners. Our values of Love, Respect, Hope, Forgiveness, Courage and Thankfulness help us to build strong, positive relationships which make Wantage CE Primary School a happy and safe place to work and to learn.
A visit to the school is highly recommended, please email office@wce.cambrianlt.org to arrange a tour.
This vacancy is open to Early Careers Teachers and more experienced teachers.
Interview date: tbc
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications and reserve the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
Wantage CE Primary School is a member of the Cambrian Learning Trust. The Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
All staff will be expected to promote fundamental British values as part of a school that values diversity and individuality, exemplified in our values of ‘one community, individual minds, creating futures. The Cambrian Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.
About Wantage Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 426 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wantage Church of England Primary School website
Pupils at Wantage CE Primary School are safe, happy and enjoy their learning. We are well-supported by the Vale Academy Trust, governors, the local church, parents, and the wider community. This allows us to offer our pupils a broad and balanced curriculum that enables pupils to flourish and to live life to the full.
We are pleased to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities including sports clubs such as judo, rugby, netball, tennis, frisbee, water-polo, tri-golf and ‘quad kids’ athletics. We are very proud of our sporting successes and the ever-increasing percentage of children who take part in a wide range of sports. We achieved the Schools Sports Mark Platinum Award this year, an accolade which we are proud of. We also competed in several local maths competitions and ran popular computing and robotics clubs.
We have a rich tradition of music at Wantage CE. Every year, Year 3 learn a brass instrument; and individual instrument lessons take place in all years including flute, keyboard, piano, drums and guitar. Gordon Campbell, VAT music specialist, teaches one day a week, leading Key Stage choirs and whole-school singing.
Our church links are very important to us. A team from church present a weekly Open the Book assembly and join us for collective worship. We attend church each term and we look forward to the Prayer Space team who visit us twice a year. Our Year 5 pupils enjoy the dedicated support of the nuns from St Mary’s Convent Wantage in helping them to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the Passion play which the pupils write, produce and perform every Easter.
Staff development continues to remain at the heart of Wantage CE Primary School. We have two staff who have completed their teacher training and are now teaching full time with us, we employed the first apprentice TA in the trust (he is performing extremely well), and this year we have a TA who has progressed to train as a SCITT with us.
School staff, parents and governors have together formulated a distinctive Christian vision for the school. Excellence for all in an environment of love, respect, hope, forgiveness and courage; where every pupil flourishes and lives life to the full.
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