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  • Start date details

    September

  • Closing date

    2 May 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    28 March 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase

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Key stage

Early years

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£36,014-£52,679 + TLR

Pay scale

MPS/UPS (Outer London) + £1,500 Harris Allowance + TLR 2

Additional allowances

Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

Inspire our little learners! We are currently looking to appoint an Early Years Foundation Stage Leader to join our dedicated and supportive team at Harris Primary Academy Benson. This role is well suited to an individual with teaching experience in a primary school environment looking to develop in a thriving academy environment.

We would like to hear from you if you have:

  • Qualified Teacher Status
  • A proven track record of recent and successful class teaching in mixed ability classes of primary age
  • Successful experience of teaching the primary curriculum
  • Goodunderstanding of current theory and best practice in teaching and learning, particularly as it relates toachieving high rates of progress of children of primary age
  • Good subject knowledge of core National Curriculum
  • EYFS experience
  • The ability to teach second language.
  • Some knowledge ofEnglishas a specialist subject


What the school offers its staff

At Harris Primary Academy Benson we aim to make learning irresistible, ensuring our children develop a genuine life-long love of learning and that every child flourishes by delivering an enjoyable curriculum that allows all children to succeed academically, physically, emotionally and socially.

Our children are at the heart of everything we do with the academy and it is our committed ambition to empower all our children to become compassionate, polite, ambitious, global citizens of the future.

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership. We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education. In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

As EYFS Leader, your role will be to act as the lead professional for Early Years, ensuring outstanding provision is developed and that all staff in the Foundation Stage are outstanding practitioners. Your responsibilities include:

  • Coordinating and monitoring the weekly and medium term planning of staff within the foundation stage and in consultation with the headship team take action as appropriate
  • Coordinating the resources for teaching and learning within the foundation stage in conjunction with the school's planning and resourcing policy
  • Daily rotas and changes within the foundation stage
  • Taking assemblies
  • Monitoring discipline and behaviour within the foundation stage
  • Ensuring the availability of advice to all members of the foundation stage for consistency with the whole school behaviour policy
  • Attending management meetings and chair staff meetings as appropriate
  • Acting as team leader for performance management


Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Primary Academy Benson

School type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
View all Primaryjobs
School size
199 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Phone number
0208 777 1572

Harris Primary Academy Benson is a successful and ambitious two-form entry school, serving a diverse community on the outskirts of Croydon. Our Ofsted in June 2015 was graded as ‘Good’ in all areas, and we are now looking for staff to join us on the next steps in our academy transformation.

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