Maternity Cover Class Teacher Year 1
Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4RR12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
24 November 2025
Closing date
4 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 9 - 12 Months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPR-UPR
What skills and experience we're looking for
You will have to work hard here but only on the things that make a difference. We want to recruit people who are passionate about making a positive impact on our children’s lives and want to challenge themselves to keep on improving. Our working relationships are positive and supportive as we strive to keep our evidence-based practice the best it can be.
We offer an excellent caring environment in a bright, well-resourced school where you will have the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive community school.
We are looking to employ a Year One Class Teacher who will work well as part of our successful school team, with supportive colleagues and governors who ensure that all pupils make outstanding progress and enjoy their learning.
What the school offers its staff
We offer an excellent caring environment in a bright, well-resourced school where you will have the opportunity to either start or advance your career within a supportive community school. We have enthusiastic and polite children, whose excellent behaviour is often commented on.
We can offer:
- An induction package to support successful integration
- A forward thinking school, which is committed to improvement through evidence based research
- Friendly and supportive staff
- A workload and wellbeing team
- More opportunities to grow your career with our focused CPD programmes
- Norfolk Rewards – staff discount programme
- Leadership development – working with colleagues to improving outcomes across the learning community supported by NPQ or equivalent courses
- Part of the Viscount Nelson Education Network (VNET) incorporating a tailored package of bespoke in-school support as well as a wide range of CPD opportunities across Norfolk and beyond.
- An Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
- HLTA and TA support throughout school
- Supervision
- A focus on supporting good mental health, working closely with the MHST
Further information about the job
Cultural Fit
Our school is developing all the time. We have implemented a curriculum whose drivers are possibilities, community and independence. We are a school at the heart of our community, and we feel it is important for our children to have a developed sense of their locality and be proud to be part of it.
Our curriculum and our pedagogic principles underpin the school culture.
- We believe we can all improve, children learn from staff as well as from each other.
- We believe in the potential of all children to learn
- We engage in deep thought about challenge and quality
- We provide opportunities to practise skills that have been learnt so that over time automaticity is achieved.
- We sequence all learning in to small steps with children’s starting points taken in to account
- We have an openness to feedback
- We develop worked models that communicate quality and success
- We take ratio in to account where over time learners take on more of the learning load
- We believe that children should be given feedback at all points of the learning journey
We focus single-mindedly upon providing the best teaching we possibly can for our children. If you want to become an even better teacher than you are now and want to work hard on your practice, thenthiswill be the school for you.
Working in a school where you are not aligned with the culture can be a miserable experience. So…we both need to have alignment if you come to work here!
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
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 433 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School website
- Email address
- admin@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01553774666
Arranging a visit to Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@fairstead.norfolk.sch.uk.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School
School Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE22 0HU
Friskney All Saints Church of England Primary School
Church End, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE22 8RD
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Norfolk