KS1 Class Teacher

More than one location, Cornerstone Academy Trust

26 days remaining to apply

Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
31 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Teacher
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Key stage: Key stage 1
Working pattern: Full time: Monday - Friday Term Time Hours
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: M1 - M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

We hope that you will bring your skills, talent, and passion to further enhance the wide offer that supports every child, whatever their need. A Cornerstone school is a place where you can flourish as a teacher.

What the school offers its staff

With our excellent provision for professional development, you will benefit from support and development that will allow you to flourish as a teacher. Our motto is ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’ and so you will be joining a team that creates a powerful ethos that supports children to have high aspirations to achieve their full potential. Teachers from across the Trust adopt a team-teaching approach to work together to create aknowledge rich, purposeful,andproject-based curriculum, where through the meaningful use of technology, you will help prepare our pupils for the ever-changing digital world of the 21st Century. We will empower you to teach innovatively, reflectively, and collaboratively within cross Trust teams. Our amazing team of teachers deliverhigh qualitylessons and projects in a way that blends physical and digitallearningenvironments, through video calling and onlineresources.This is an opportunity for you to build on the international reputation that the schools have for the teaching of reading, its project-based curriculum, where the digital tools empower both the teacher and learner alike.

We have dedicated mental health leads and through a supportive network of teachers in each year group who share their planning digitally, the combined talents of the teachers from across the schools will support you in your teaching role. Our digital approach has reduced the burden of assessment as we track children’s progress through the digital assessment suite where these assessments are done within the classroom using an adaptive approach that helps us triangulate and plan for the needs of each child. There is a strong coaching culture that supports and develops all staff and children within the Trust.

The work of the DfE curriculum hubs, that we are responsible for regionally, will create opportunity for you to showcase your excellent practice and be part of a wider network of professional development opportunities that will help you reflect on your own practice whilst preparing you for those next steps in your teaching career.

Each of the schools serves a different community and so we can provide that next step in your career. The Trust is well resourced with a high investment in the learning environment, dedicated libraries, a 1:1 digital device programme, and dedicated learning spaces including TV studios, science and art rooms and outdoor learning and forest school spaces.

There is a dedicated Nursery in each school with a strong Early Years Team creating strong foundations for each child’s education journey. Additionally, there is a well-planned programme of outdoor education with an extensive range of trips and residentials. Sport is a core thread where the children have over 2hrs of sport each week, culminating in our older children learning to climb, kayak, ride a bike, fence, and play golf, as well as competing in the well-established team sports. Every child has the chance to find their area of strength and excel in it, whether through the creative arts, musical theatre, sporting competitions, modern foreign languages all whilst maintaining that key focus on ensuring that the core literacy and numeracy skills are well taught to unlock these wider opportunities. We provide our own bus service, wrap around care and family dining service along with a full range of extra-curricular activities.

We have enhanced the teachers’ pay and conditions through the provision of a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme, an electric car scheme, performance related pay progression and subsidised meals in our staff café, with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment and will work in modern, digitally enabled classrooms where children have access to their own Microsoft Surface device. To enable teachers to become the best they can be, we support them with a weekly investment in their professional development through training. We provide an online personalised training portal to enable each teacher to develop at their own pace. For ECT’s we deliver a weekly programme with specialist support from our ECT programme leader, a mentor and inputs delivered by experienced teachers.

Further details about the role

We are seeking to recruit KS1 teachers to be initially based at one of our Exeter or Exmouth Schools. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team of great teachers. Please note that one of the available posts is initially for a fixed term to cover maternity leave (currently anticipated for 2 terms ending at the end of the summer term in July 2025). There are often opportunities available for teachers wishing to stay with the Trust on a permanent basis.

Whilst the positions will become available from January 2025, we would like where possible to accommodate an earlier start towards the end of the autumn term. This would allow us a handover period before our colleagues leave.

With our excellent provision for professional development, you will benefit from support and development that will allow you to flourish as a teacher. Our motto is ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’ and so you will be joining a team that creates a powerful ethos that supports children to have high aspirations to achieve their full potential. Teachers from across the Trust adopt a team-teaching approach to work together to create a knowledge rich, purposeful, and project-based curriculum, where through the meaningful use of technology, you will help prepare our pupils for the ever-changing digital world of the 21st Century. We will empower you to teach innovatively, reflectively, and collaboratively within cross Trust teams. Our amazing team of teachers deliver high quality lessons and projects in a way that blends physical and digital learning environments, through video calling and online resources. This is an opportunity for you to build on the international reputation that the schools have for the teaching of reading, its project-based curriculum, where the digital tools empower both the teacher and learner alike.

We have enhanced the teachers’ pay and conditions through the provision of a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme, an electric car scheme, performance related pay progression and subsidised mealsin our staff café, with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipmentand will work in modern, digitally enabled classrooms where children have access to their own Microsoft Surface device. Toenableteacherstobecome the best they can be,we supportthem with a weekly investment in their professional development through training.We provide an online personalised training portal to enable each teacher to develop at their own pace. For ECT’s we deliver a weekly programme with specialist support fromour ECTprogramme leader, a mentorand inputs delivered by experienced teachers.

Visits to the schools are welcome by prior arrangement.

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.