EYFS Class Teacher
Hopton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Diss, Suffolk, IP22 2QY24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
13 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Skills/Knowledge: Each of the skills listed below should be considered within the context of equality issues, embracing race, gender, disability, poverty and individual educational needs.
Interpersonal Skills
- Establish and maintain good relationships, in partnership with pupils, parents and colleagues.
- Being aware of the school environment, including links with the local community and church.
- Using teaching strategies which develop pupils’ language, literacy and collaborative skills.
- Exploiting opportunities to develop the personal, social, spiritual and cultural development of pupils.
- Developing appropriate social values and standards through one’s own personal and professional conduct.
- Communicate effectively with staff.
Management and Organisation
- Create a purposeful, engaging and stimulating environment for pupils’ learning.
- Match teaching to children’s individual needs so that one’s own and pupils’ time is used effectively.
- Use a variety of teaching styles, including whole class, group and individual approaches in which clear targets are set for pupils’ learning.
- Identify and provide for pupils with individual educational needs, through the application of Individual Support Plans (ISPs).
- Establish and maintain consistently high expectations of pupil behaviour through well-focused and well-paced teaching.
Curriculum
- Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage and National Curriculum
- Plan, deliver and assess learning activities so as to inform future planning.
- Assess children learning and use the assessments to inform future learning.
- Demonstrate self-awareness of professional needs, and being responsive to the performance management process.
- Establish effective working relationships with colleagues, being responsible for the deployment of support staff, involving them in the management of learning.
Experience/Qualifications/Training
- To have trained as a teacher for EYFS age group
What the school offers its staff
EYFS Class Teacher-MPS/UPS
TLR to be considered for the right candidate
Full Time
Permanent
This is an exciting opportunity to teach in a small village primary school within a verysupportive community. This small-scale approach gives our children a realopportunity to thrive. We are seeking a committed teacher, with a passion for a child centeredcurriculum, to continue this approach and develop our provision further.
Hopton CEVC is an inclusive, rural school on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. Weare very welcoming and friendly, with excellent relationships with our parents andwider community. Our school is in an exciting phase as we look to join the ElvedenSchools Trust and we work closely with the other two schools within the trust. Wehave forest schools and OPAL play starting which is an exciting offer for our schoolcommunity. We will be working with Early Excellence to support teaching andlearning next year.
We are seeking to appoint a full-time, class teacher as soon as possible. There willalso be the opportunity to lead curriculum subjects and this will depend on thesuccessful candidates’ particular areas of expertise, as well as the needs of theschool. Experience of teaching a mixed classes is desirable, as is a good knowledgeof the curriculum. However, if you are passionate about Early Years, we want to hearfrom you!
All staff at the school benefit from an employee assistance programme, as well asopen opportunities to contribute to the school development, high-quality CPD andopportunities for career progression.
Please visit our website for more information and to get a real feel for our school. Wealso recommend arranging an informal visit to come and meet the children and ourteam. Please telephone the school office to make an appointment.
We reserve the right the close this application early if sufficient applications havebeen received.
Hopton CEVC Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting thewelfare of all its children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Allappointments will be subject to full safeguarding checks as well as satisfactoryreferences.
Closing date is Friday 13th June 2025 at midday.
Interviews w/b 16th June 2025
Please email applications to Jo Whiting at admin@hopton.suffolk.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.
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 admin@hopton.suffolk.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hopton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 77 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- admin@hopton.suffolk.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01953 681449
Arranging a visit to Hopton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@hopton.suffolk.sch.uk.
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