Early Years Class Teacher
Holgate Primary and Nursery School, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, NG15 6EZ12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
1 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you looking for your first teaching role in Early Years?
Do you want to work in an exciting, well-resourced setting?
Are you passionate about nurturing young children and laying the foundations for lifelong learning?
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Early Years Class Teacher to join our warm and welcoming team. This post would be particularly suited to an ECT with a passion for EYFS who is willing to learn and grow alongside our experienced team.
We are in a formal collaboration with Sutton Road Primary School in Mansfield and there are many strengths within our collaborative working together, which hugely supports our constant strive for improvement at our schools and provides many wider opportunities for us all.
Our next exciting step at Holgate is that we are joining Transform Academy Trust during the Summer Term 2025. Sutton Road, our partner school, joined the Trust last year and we have been included and benefitted from the fantastic professional development and innovative developments alongside them. The successful candidate who gets this position will be extremely well developed professionally and personally through this additional strength.
About the Role: As an Early Years Class Teacher, you will:
- Create a nurturing, stimulating, and inclusive environment that supports all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.
- Plan, deliver, and assess high-quality learning experiences that inspire curiosity, independence, and a love for learning.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and parents/carers to ensure the best outcomes for every child.
- Contribute to the wider life of the school and its community.
We are looking for someone who:
- Is a qualified teacher with experience or strong interest in the Early Years phase.
- Has a deep understanding of the EYFS framework and child development.
- Is creative, reflective, and passionate about early education.
- Values collaboration, inclusion, and continuous professional development.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- A friendly and supportive school community within a well-established collaboration.
- Excellent opportunities for professional growth and development and networking opportunities that will support your career to grow in the direction you would like to aim for.
- Well-resourced classrooms in a modern building and a rich outdoor learning environment.
- A supportive team of staff across two collaborated schools who are passionate about making a difference.
- Some truly inspirational children of whom we are all very proud.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to pre-employment checks, references will be taken up before interview and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced DBS check. If you have ever lived or worked abroad an overseas check will also be required.
In addition, an online search for publicly available information will be undertaken for shortlisted candidates in line with KCSIE.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hprecruitment@holgateprimary.org
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Holgate Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 365 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Holgate Primary and Nursery School website
- Email address
- hprecruitment@holgateprimary.org
- Phone number
- 0115 963 8649
Dear Applicant,
I have included this to give you some information about the context of Holgate Primary & Nursery School which I hope will help you in your consideration of this post.
Holgate Primary & Nursery School opened in September 2014 with the amalgamation of the former Annie Holgate Junior and Annie Holgate Infant Schools. We initially ran within two buildings which were built in 1951 that had previously served the two separate schools.
We were fortunate to be on the priority list for a new school building which opened in January 2016. This created a calm and purposeful learning environment which is bright and welcoming. As well as light, airy classrooms, the new school has additional group rooms, two halls, a food technology room, discreet staff working spaces and plenty of storage facilities.
Our intrinsic belief in true collaboration led us to form a formal collaboration with Sutton Road Primary School in Mansfield, which we have been in since 2014. This provides many benefits and through it the growth of shared expertise has been immense, attracting and establishing formidable experts and outstanding practitioners at both of our schools. It has also enabled our children to experience some fantastic opportunities to enhance their learning and discovery of the wider world than would be challenging to achieve for a stand-alone Primary school. We know that this is vital for us as the people entrusted with the amazing job of expanding children’s minds and helping them aspire higher in forging their own futures.
The two schools are geographically 9 miles (20-minute drive) apart and serve very similar catchments. Not only does this provide a fantastic opportunity to quality assure all we do together, but it also supports workload and more efficient use of staff expertise than would be possible in one school, working in isolation.
We firmly believe no school can continue to improve in isolation and remain wholeheartedly an outward looking Primary School embracing work with other schools and establishments in order to continuously evaluate, reflect and drive further developments and improvements for the children we serve. We welcome and appreciate the next exciting step in our journey in becoming part of Transform Academy Trust that supports and further strengthens our own professional learning and growth.
Holgate Primary and Nursery School today is firmly established as a successful, happy and vibrant school of quality for the Hucknall area. The day-to-day leadership of the school is left in the extremely capable and excellent hands of Samantha Sheridan as the Head of School.
We have been tasked by our governors and children to attract high quality candidates to take up this vacancy which offers challenge, excitement and a unique opportunity. The successful person will become a valuable member of our forward thinking and supportive team in ensuring Holgate Primary continues to provide a positive and aspirational future for staff and children who are part of the schools.
We all strive together to accomplish innovative ways of working in partnership with other schools; it is challenging but exhilarating. Things are constantly moving at a fast rate forward in improving provision and this is an absolute priority for us to continue to improve further on.
With this firmly at the forefront of improving standards, we expect our staff to ensure they help develop and embed a school ethos of everyone being personally responsible for delivering excellence and bringing out the very best in our children.
The successful post holder can be secure in the knowledge that they will obtain a wealth of experience. We need someone who can give totally the same determination and commitment to the school that our staff, governors and children share.
In return we offer a supportive, friendly and collaborative staff to work alongside, a well-resourced and vibrant atmosphere to work in and some very special and wonderful young people to teach who I personally feel very privileged to work with and would not swap for the world!
If you would like to speak to me or Samantha Sheridan, or visit the school before the closing date, please do not hesitate to contact Holgate Primary School (0115 963 8649). Thank you for your interest.
Nicola Davies
Executive Head Teacher
Arranging a visit to Holgate Primary and Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hprecruitment@holgateprimary.org.
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