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  • Start date details

    21st August 2025 and 6th October 2025

  • Closing date

    19 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    9 May 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650.00 - £38,034.00 Annually (Actual) Main Pay Scale (M1– M4)

Class Teachers job summary

Class Teachers required from 21st August 2025 and 6th October 2025

Fixed term, Full time, up to 12-month contracts to cover maternity leave

OAK Trust has an exciting opportunity for two enthusiastic, highly motivated and inspiring Teachers to cover maternity leave.

The successful candidates will be conscientious and organised with a passion for working with and motivating children. We are looking for teachers who can inspire and empower pupils to take an active part in their own learning. Teamwork at Overdale Junior School is essential so we will be looking for candidates with excellent interpersonal skills.

At Overdale Junior School we support and develop our teachers through a supportive coaching programme, working alongside each other to develop best teaching and learning practices. We are forward thinking and implement latest research and technology.

Every pupil at Overdale Juniors uses an iPad to support them with their learning and to complete work. This is a part of our Frontiers 1:1 iPad programme. The successful candidate will need to embrace technology to enhance teaching and learning in their classroom. This is an exciting and revolutionary period for our school which we are very proud of.

The Trust is a local partnership of academies in south Leicestershire. The Trust was formally established in April 2018 and currently consists of one secondary school, two primary schools, one junior school, one infant and two pre-schools, with over 2,500 pupils and approximately 400 staff.

Our vision and values are at the heart of everything we as the OAK Trust do, this drives our commitment to the concept of a MAT as a family of schools working collaboratively with and supporting each other to ensure all our children realise their full potential as learners and as citizens, and that no child is left behind.

The Overdale Schools are vibrant, friendly, multicultural schools with a commitment to ensuring all children reach their full potential, both academically and socially.

For more information, please refer to the job description or contact Sarah Cooke, Office Manager at Overdale Junior School.

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

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About Overdale Junior School

School type
Academy, ages 7 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
481 pupils enrolled
Age range
7 to 11
Ofsted report
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We are situated on the southern edge of the city of Leicester in a mainly residential area. Our school campus is shared with Overdale Infant School, with which there is increasingly close liaison.

The school was opened in September 1956, with a new extension added in 2009. We have 16 mixed ability classes across Years 3 to 6 totalling around 480 pupils. Our children develop strong relationships with the teachers and peers through their learning and extracurricular activities.

We are fortunate to have a great deal of outside space at the school, including all weather playgrounds, a sports field and a wooded area and we are an established Forest School to make even more use of the green space around the school for learning opportunities.

Overdale Junior School works with children to:

-develop enquiring minds;

-teach them to reach high standards in all areas of the curriculum, according to their ability;

-be highly motivated learners;

-develop high self-esteem and self-respect;

-encourage them to extend and challenge their own self-belief;

-develop imaginative, creative and logical thinking;

-enable them to live in harmony in a diverse world;

-develop a healthy mind and body; and

-value the environment

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