Classroom Teacher
West Thornton Primary School, Croydon, CR0 3BS6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Summer Team & 28th August 2025
Closing date
8 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday - 32.5 Hours Per Week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Teacher's Outer London - £36,413.00 FTE - £48,532.00 FTE
Pay scale
- M1 - M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Hold qualified teacher status
- Current experience of teaching in different key stages (this may be as a student).
- Good written communication skills
- Good oral communication skills
- Have excellent subject knowledge of curriculum in specified Key Stage Have excellent subject knowledge of curriculum across all Key Stages in a Primary School
- Ability to set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
- The ability to create a safe, attractive and stimulating environment that contributes positively to teaching and learning
- Plan and teach well-structured lessons and to promote a love of learning
- Teach using a wide range of teaching strategies to meet differing learning styles and to maximise achievement for all children including those with special educational needs and high achievers
- Ability to make accurate and productive use of assessment, feedback and data to secure pupils' progress
- Know a range of strategies that promote excellent learning behaviours Evidence of leading the work of other adults in classrooms
- To lead on whole school initiatives/projects To lead on achieving whole school awards e.g. wellbeing award, healthy schools award
- P.E. Subject leadership experience
- Committed to ensuring all pupils in our school are kept safe.
- Enhanced DBS check
- Committed to ensuring that all members of our school community can achieve excellence
- Commitment to own improvement through professional development / further study
- Be committed to engaging parents in the work of the school
- Show commitment to upholding excellent levels of professional conduct as a teacher.
What the school offers its staff
As a Classroom Teacher, with Inspire Partnership Academy Trust, you'll enjoy a range of benefits:
- Ongoing professional development
- Commitment to staff wellbeing (members of the staff wellbeing charter)
- Generous Annual Leave
- Annual Incremental Pay Increases
- Enhanced Family Friendly Pay (maternity, paternity/enhanced sickness pay)
- Teacher’s Pension Scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Eye care voucher scheme
- Extensive Training and Induction program
Further details about the role
Salary: Teacher's Outer London - (MPS - M1-M6- £36,413.00 FTE - £48,532.00 FTE)
Start Date: Summer Term 2025 & 28th August 2025
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Location: West Thornton Primary School - Rosecourt Road, Croydon, CR0 3BS and Canterbury Road, Croydon, CR0 3HH
Hours Per Week: Monday - Friday - 32.5 Hours Per Week
Ask yourself…why do you teach?
As a teacher, you have a pivotal role to play in shaping the next generation. You have the opportunity to be a role model, with the ability to develop children’s talents. You are able to maximise their potential, enabling them to achieve something they thought they never could.
If you have this mindset and with it, a deep desire to make a difference, then West Thornton Primary School is the school for you!
We are a school on a journey towards excellence for all
A journey that is built on equity, inclusion and ambition, with our community at the centre of everything we do.
Children at West Thornton Primary School need people who:
- Want to be here and to make a difference
- Build rewarding relationships
- Are aspirational
- Have a sense of humour
The "West Thornton Primary School"is seeking to appoint ambitious, creative and aspirational teachers and leaders and in return will:
- Support you and celebrate the difference you are making
- Value your wellbeing
- Offer you the very best CPD
- Recognise your potential and support your career development
- Pay a competitive salary
The Inspire Partnership is a multi-academy trust of 9 schools based in Croydon, Greenwich and Medway.
What we can offer you:
- Ongoing professional development
- Leadership Opportunities
- Commitment to staff wellbeing (members of the staff wellbeing charter)
- Generous Annual Leave
- Annual Incremental Pay Increases
- Enhanced Family Friendly Pay (maternity, paternity/enhanced sickness pay)
- Teacher’s Pension Scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Eye care voucher scheme
- Extensive Training and Induction program
Candidates with experience of whole school subject leadership would be particularly welcomed.
If you share in our belief that success is gained by developing a growth mindset; one which values effort and believes anything is possible, then we want to hear from you!
Candidates with a range of experience are encouraged to apply. If you are ready for the next step in your career, we can offer extensive career growth and opportunities to lead beyond your own classroom. Senior leaders, middle leaders and ECTs are all very welcome to apply.
All aspects of the application form must be fully completed to be considered for shortlisting, furthermore, please ensure that the Personal Statement in your application form addresses how you meet the duties outlined in the Person Specification. Please kindly note, we do not accept CV's. Please fill out the application form and the Equal Opportunities Form that is attached to this vacancy.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint at any stage during the recruitment process. Early applications are advised, as interviews will be ongoing.
Closing Date for Applications: 8th April 2025 at 12:00pm
Visits to the school are encouraged – we would very much like to meet you and answer any questions you may have.
Further information about our Trust is available at:https://www.inspirepartnership.co.ukor via our school website:https://www.westthornton.croydon.sch.uk/
To visit the school please contact:
Donna Callaghan – Headteacher –dcallaghan@inspirewestthornton.co.uk- Rosecourt Road.
Jonathan Owen - Headteacher -jowen@inspirewestthornton.co.uk- Canterbury Road.
For enquiries or an application pack please contact Janine Fernandes on 07706 829 391 or by emailcroydonhubrecruitment@inspirepartnership.co.uk
Please note we will only accept applications from candidates who have documentary evidence that they have the right to work in the UK. West Thornton Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and external agencies to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, Medical Clearance and satisfactory Employment References.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Inspire Partnership Academy Trust is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults as outlined in Working Together to
Safeguard Children. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the
people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment.
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 West Thornton Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 940 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- West Thornton Primary School website
- Email address
- jfernandes@inspirepartnership.co.uk
- Phone number
- 07706829391
In addition to the Conditions of Employment for teachers laid down in Part the School Teachers’ Pay and
Conditions Document 2008, to provide strategic leadership and hold accountability for standards
achieved within a given phase and quality order to:
• Working with Governors and Senior Leadership Team to enable The Inspire Partnership to give
every
pupil high quality education, and promote the highest possible standards of achievement.
• Secure the long-term success of the school by maximizing potential through the skills and resources held
• Play a significant role within the context of Every Child Matters, to help ensure The Inspire Partnership School provides a full, integrated range of extended services
Key Priorities for The Inspire Partnership:
• Consistently and continuously raise achievements and standards across the school
• Ensure every child reaches their potential and enjoys a happy, fulfilling school experience
• Ensure our schools continuously maintain and embed best practice
• Develop to a high level positive links with the local community, including parents and carers
Securing accountability
• Develop a collaborative ethos which enables everyone to achieve common goals
• Take personal responsibility to ensure personal accountabilities are clearly understood. This
includes planning, marking and assessment
• Ensure every child has access to high quality teaching and learning
Key Accountabilities
Creating the future of The Inspire Partnership School
• Working with colleagues to create the strategic vision and promote the vision, values and ethos to
pupils, staff, Governors, parents and the wider community
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Key Accountabilities Continued.
Creating the future of The Inspire Partnership School
• Help create a shared learning culture and positive climate by building positive relationships which
lead to highly effective communication with colleagues, pupils and parents. This includes listening skills
• Translate the vision into best practice through innovative planning, teaching and providing high quality learning experiences
• Work with the key stakeholders to maintain a shared vision and future strategic plans which will inspire and motivate pupils, staff, parents and the wider community Leading teaching and learning
• To serve as a role model for pupils, staff and parents
• Maintain a continuous and consistent focus on pupils’ achievement, using data and benchmarks to monitor progress.
• Plan engaging lessons that contain progression across ability ranges that are informed by secure subject and curriculum knowledge
• Teach challenging, well organised lessons that build on pupils prior learning and enable sustained progress to be attained
• Ensure lessons are informed by well-grounded expectations of learners designed to raise levels of attainment
• Provide learners, colleagues, parents and carers with timely, accurate and constructive feedback on pupils’ attainment, progress and areas for development
• Use assessment as part of their teaching to diagnose learners’ needs, set realistic and challenging targets for improvement and plan future teaching
Developing self and working with others
• Have excellent subject knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour
management strategies
• Promote and maintain a culture of high expectations for self and others
• Know a range of approaches to assessment and formative assessment and understand the role of
assessment in helping all pupils make good progress
• Regularly review own practice, set personal targets and take responsibility for own development,
seeking advice and support from other leaders
Managing a subject area (excluding NQTs)
• Ensure improvement plans reflect the school’s priorities and values
• Ensure plans and policies promote continuous school improvement linked to the school SEF
• Develop effective relationships and communications which underpin a professional learning
community that enables everyone in the school to achieve
• Create an inspiring, professional work environment within the phase team consistent with the school’s
values and aspirations
• Put in place effective team communication mechanisms to ensure that all staff are involved in the
development plan and are kept informed of key priorities
• Manage budgets to achieve the schools’ educational goals and priorities, and ensure systems are in
place for the effective administration and control
• Use and integrate a range of technologies effectively and efficiently
Strengthening community
• Work with colleagues to strengthen and develop the ethos of the school, allowing this to influence and
shape all areas of the school’s work and collective worship
• Create and promote positive strategies for challenging racial and other prejudice
• Ensure community-based learning experiences are planned for and are explicit in medium term plans
• Collaborate with colleagues and other agencies to ensure pupil and community needs are met
• Promote community cohesion by ensuring long term, medium term and short term planning
references links to community cohesion and extended services.
• Ensure planning takes account of the diversity, values and experience of the school, school grounds
and local community
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents, Governors to support and improve pupils’
achievements and personal development
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Key Accountabilities Continued.
Data protection
• It is essential when working with computerised systems that you are completely aware of your responsibilities at all times under the Data protection Act 1984 for the security, accuracy, and significance of personal data held on such systems
Health and safety
• Manage and organise the learning environment within the phase to ensure each classroom reflects the school’s high standards and aspirations
• Manage learners’ behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for discipline
• Use a range of behaviour management techniques and strategies, adapting them as necessary to promote the self control and independence of learners
• Ensuring the safety of all staff and pupils within phase team by coordinating risk assessments,
planned trips and visits and any school activities with a risk potential. This includes ensuring all staff within phase team are aware of potential risk factors and school procedures for managing risk effectively
Safeguarding
• To have due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to follow the child protection procedures adopted by the LA and school
Arranging a visit to West Thornton Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jfernandes@inspirepartnership.co.uk.
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