KS2 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
- Key stage 2
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 withinthe context of equality issues, embracing race, gender, disability, poverty andindividual 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 localcommunity and church.
• Using teaching strategies which develop pupils’ language, literacy andcollaborative skills.
• Exploiting opportunities to develop the personal, social, spiritual andcultural development of pupils.
• Developing appropriate social values and standards through one’s ownpersonal 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 andpupils’ time is used effectively.
• Use a variety of teaching styles, including whole class, group andindividual 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 pupilbehaviour through well-focused and well-paced teaching.
Curriculum
• Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the NationalCurriculum
• Plan, deliver and assess learning activities so as to inform futureplanning.
• Assess children learning and use the assessments to inform futurelearning.
• Demonstrate self-awareness of professional needs, and beingresponsive to the performance management process.
• Establish effective working relationships with colleagues, beingresponsible for the deployment of support staff, involving them in themanagement of learning.
Experience/Qualifications/Training
• To have trained as a teacher for the Key Stage 2 age group
What the school offers its staff
Hopton CEVC Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting thewelfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to sharethis commitment. Enhanced DBS checks are carried out on all staff prior toappointment. Hopton Primary School listens to children and to staff via complaintsand whistleblowing procedures. All staff will receive a full programme of induction.
Hopton CEVC Primary School is committed to performance management and staffdevelopment and all staff are fully supported in their development and career goals.
Hopton CEVC Primary School is fully committed to aiding the development of ChurchSchool Leaders of the future.
Job Description
Main Purpose:
• To provide an effective education for children by teaching within theframework provided by the DfE, the Governing Body and the Academyand with regard to all statutory requirements.
• To be accountable for the quality and standard of learning and teachingto meet or exceed the targets identified in the School DevelopmentPlan.
Main Duties:
• The professional duties of teachers (other than the Headteacher) are setout in the School Teachers pay & conditions document and describe theduties required of all teachers. In addition, the specific requirements ofthe post of the classroom teacher, along with the particular dutiesexpected of the post holder have been set out below;
• To provide a well-managed, and stimulating and effective learningenvironment for children.
• To prepare curriculum plans and programmes of work which areappropriate to the needs, experience and knowledge of pupils.
• To deliver each pupil’s entitlement to a broad, balanced curriculum,taking account of how pupils’ learning is influenced by theirdevelopment.
• To plan, assess and record systematically, and to use assessments,observations and data to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
• To take responsibility for one’s own professional development,including responses to school policies and practices.
• To accept responsibility for the health and safety of pupils encouragingan atmosphere in which pupils work co-operatively and effectively.
• To develop and maintain relationships with parents as partners in theirchildren’s learning and with others who have an interest in the welfareof pupils.
• To participate in induction initiatives established by the school.
• To work co-operatively within the staff team, carrying out all duties soas to implement the Academy’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
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.
School location
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