Classroom Teacher
Orrell Holgate Academy, Wigan, Lancashire, WN5 8SJThis job expired on 5 June 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
5 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
15 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
- 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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
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
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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