Classroom Teacher
Oakfield Primary Academy, Dartford, Kent, DA1 2SW2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
15 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
10 September 2024
Job details
Job role
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Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 Hours Per Week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Pay Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
Due to an unexpected change of personal circumstances, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen at Oakfield Primary Academy for a hardworking, conscientious upper key stage 2 class teacher.
Oakfield Primary Academy is an incredibly supportive school, with the staff and pupils at the centre of all it does! Every teacher is entitled to the best possible CPD. No teacher is ever left to plan alone. Reducing teacher workload and improving teacher well-being is a priority. Governance arrangements fully support the development of teachers, enabling them to concentrate on teaching and learning.
A high priority is placed on developing the deeper learning of basic skills, whilst at the same time developing a broad and balanced curriculum of foundation subjects. We want our children to fulfil their academic ability but to also be good human beings when they leave us. There are excellent opportunities for future career development across our schools with many staff who have started as support staff and are now in senior leadership positions.
What we expect from teachers in our schools:
- The skill to keep the child at the centre of everything they do.
- An ability to see the best in every child.
- Hard-working, loyal, professional teachers that actually want to teach!
- To work as a team and be proud of collective as well as individual achievements.
- A high standard of English and maths knowledge.
- A passion for another area of the curriculum.
We have been judged with a solid good in Ofsted; this is the type of school you could be joining:
- A strong sense of community fills this inclusive school
- Staff have high expectations of the pupils and expect them to work hard
- Adults are strong role models
- Staff are proud to work here and pupils love to learn here
- Leaders and staff have worked incredibly hard to improve the school since its last inspection
- ‘There is a real team feeling – we are Team Purple.’
- Teachers know their pupils well
- Pupils feel that they will leave school remembering motivational teachers and visitors, that diversity is celebrated, and that they have been treated as individuals: ‘It’s OK to be me!’
The Golden Thread Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 and therefore is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. In line with KCSIE guidance, paragraph 220, all candidates who are shortlisted will be subject to an online search. This search is not part of the shortlisting process itself and all shortlisted candidates will have the opportunity to address any issues of concern resulting from the search.
Two references are also required prior to commencement of employment.
Early applications are encouraged, and we reserve the right to close the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Information about the school
What the school offers its staff
Our staff benefits package includes:
- Commitment to your ongoing Continued Professional Development
- Two family days
- Half-day Christmas Shopping Leave
- Access to Local Government Pension scheme/Teachers’ Pensions
- Eyecare vouchers through Specsavers
- Annual Flu Jab offer for all staff
- Employee Assistance Programme to support your wellbeing
Commitment to safeguarding
The Golden Thread Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 and therefore is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. In line with KCSIE guidance, all candidates who are shortlisted will be subject to an online search. This search is not part of the shortlisting process itself and all shortlisted candidates will have the opportunity to address any issues of concern raised.
Applying for the job
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About Oakfield Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 721 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Oakfield Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- stacy.wickes@golden-thread.org
Oakfield Primary Academy is situated on the borders of Dartford and Bexley, serving Dartford and Wilmington.
Judged by Ofsted in 2014 as a GOOD school, we are working hard to provide the best possible experiences for all children.
We are a large school with three forms of entry, and with a nursery on site too, we have capacity for 758 children. A new build has very recently been completed in order to give us a brand new hall and extra five classrooms.
We are part of The Galaxy Trust which is the successful partnership between Oakfield Primary Academy, Temple Hill Primary Academy and West Hill Primary Academy.
All three schools are supportive, friendly schools where children, parents and staff thrive.
Arranging a visit to Oakfield Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email stacy.wickes@golden-thread.org.
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