13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    27 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    13 June 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time, part time: Full-time post - 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday Part-time post - working each morning, Monday to Friday

Contract type

Fixed term - 31st August 2026

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650 - £49,084

Pay scale

M1 - UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

Crooksbarn Primary School is part of Ad Astra Academy Trust and is embarking on an exciting chapter in the development of the school.

The school is looking to recruit a small number of enthusiastic, highly motivated and skilled classroom teachers. We have a mixture of both full-time and part-time posts (working mornings only). These posts are all fixed term for one year. The successful candidates will work alongside a strong and committed phase team within our wider staff team and will benefit from the wider professional opportunities available working for Ad Astra Academy Trust.

Crooksbarn’s motto is “hand in hand, fulfilling our potential”. Crooksbarn value, seek to understand and identify this potential in everyone. The school encourage the wider community to engage in school life.

The school requires excellent practitioners, who can deliver outstanding lessons. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate that they are ready to take on a teaching position with flexibility, creativity, and inspiration within this forward-thinking school. Candidates should demonstrate the skills and experience that they will bring to the post and how they will meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

What the school offers its staff

The successful candidates will:

  • Join a school and a Trust with a highly supportive, warm, friendly and respectful ethos, and the drive and ambition to ensure that all members of staff and children achieve their full potential.
  • Have the privilege of engaging with children who enjoy school and rise to the challenges it provides.
    • Be part of a school environment which places high value to the wider, enriched Curriculum.
  • Be given opportunities to further develop their skills through a variety of professional development available through working for Ad Astra Academy Trust.

For an informal discussion about these positions, please contact Chris Twiby, Headteacher on 01642 531750 or viacbchris.twiby@crooksbarn.adastraschools.org

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@adastraacademytrust.com

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About Crooksbarn Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
306 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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Phone number
01642 531750

Arranging a visit to Crooksbarn Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email cbchris.twiby@crooksbarn.adastraschools.org.

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