Classroom Teacher

Orrell Holgate Academy, Wigan, Lancashire, WN5 8SJ

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  5 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months
• Pay scale: Classroom Teachers' Pay Scales

What skills and experience we're looking for

Orrell Holgate Academy are seeking to appoint a flexible, hardworking, caring, enthusiastic and skills teacher who shares our desire to ensure that all children at Holgate become lifelong learners. This role involves covering PPA for some of the school as well as cover for our SLT who are based in class.

The successful applicant will:

• Be enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible, organised and resilient
• Have excellent classroom practice with high expectations of pupils achievement and behaviour
• Have experience of working in KS1 and KS2
• Be able to evidence the positive impact of their practice upon pupil progress
• Be able to work constructively as part of a friendly, collaborative team and demonstrate good interpersonal skills
• Be highly professional and well presented with a good standard of spoken and written English
• Have a commitment to developing pupil personal development and to developing effective relationships with pupils in school
• Be committed to ensuring that children are always safe, happy and are fully engaged in learning.
• Be able to identify a strength in their ability to teach a particular foundation subject through parts of school
• Have a commitment to our school and its ongoing success.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• Happy, friendly, well-behaved children who love learning
• A warm, professional and hardworking team
• A calm, effective and well organised school to work in
• Supportive parents and wider school community
• Opportunities for professional development
• A commitment from the SLT to ensure that all our staff have a healthy work life balance.

Further details about the role

To apply for this role, please submit an application form and a supporting statement of no more than two sides of A4 outlining why you are interested in the opportunity and how your application addresses the requirements for the role.

If you would like to visit the school prior to submitting your application, you will be able to do so on Tuesday 20th May (9:30am), Wednesday 21st May (1:30pm) and Wednesday 4th June (8:00am or 4:30pm). Please contact the school office (enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk) to arrange.

Applications should be addressed to Mrs Gail Worrall (Headteacher). These can be returned electronically to enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk

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. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

OHA Recruitment Pack - Classroom Teacher.pdf - 740 KB (opens in new tab)

About Orrell Holgate Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Orrell Holgate Academy website
• Email address: enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01942 776670
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orrell-holgate-academy

Orrell Holgate Academy is a special place. We are a successful and ambitious school with a caring family ethos.

Our school mission statement is 'Learning for Life'. Through our 'Learning For Life' curriculum and school ethos, our aim is to work with parents to prepare children for a life of successful learning where they can adapt and move forward successfully whatever the circumstance or situation.

L.E.A.R.N sums up our aims:
Lifelong learning
Equipped for the world
Ambitious in every area
Resilient and Courageous
No limits to our success!

We place a huge emphasis on academic resilience and being able to work in a sustained way. Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing and Mathematics takes place in discrete lessons but is also used in a purposeful way to develop and support learning in all subjects.

We are proud that our pupils tell us that they are HAPPY at school because we believe that children learn well when they are happy.

Arranging a visit to Orrell Holgate Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiries@admin.holgate.wigan.sch.uk.

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