Primary Class Teacher KS1/KS2 Fixed term 1 year - maternity cover
Seven Fields Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 5DE4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £43,607.00 Annually (Actual)
Primary Class Teacher KS1/KS2 Fixed term 1 year - maternity cover job summary
Primary Class Teacher KS1/KS2 Fixed term 1 year - maternity cover
Start Date: September 2025
Location
Seven Fields Primary School within the River Learning Trust
Leigh Road, Swindon, SN2 5DE
Actual salary, pay grade, full time, permanent etc.
Salary M1 to M6 £31,650 to £43,607 depending on experience.
Fixed Term 1 year - maternity cover
Main purpose of role
The Governors of Seven Fields Primary are looking to appoint a teacher to work with children in Seven Fields, part of The River Learning Trust. This role may be either KS1 or KS2.
Are you:
Enthusiastic about working with children
Patient with a good sense of humour
Creative and flexible
Seven Fields Primary School is popular with families and we have hard working staff, well behaved children in a local community that is very supportive.
The children all get off to a great start in our 3-4 year old provision and EYFS was recently graded Good by Ofsted.
Our recent Ofsted report shows good behaviour, personal development and leadership.
You are warmly invited to visit the children and the staff. Please contact the school directly if you wish to visit.
What skills / experience are required
We are looking for a person who:
has good or outstanding teaching which they consistently apply to support pupil progress
has innovative curriculum ideas and high expectations of the learning they provide
can contribute to the team and work with a range of fellow professionals
maintain a caring, positive ethos within their work to support the key values of the school.
Good and outstanding practice.
We can offer you:
an exciting opportunity to work within a team of professionals, dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of the teaching profession
motivated, engaged and well-behaved children
supportive parents
a wonderful, highly resourced working environment with the support of experienced dynamic leadership
professional development that is tailored to your needs
highly skilled Board of Directors dedicated to providing everything that teachers need to develop their roles and teach to the best of their ability.
A pro-active commitment to promoting staff well-being and work/life balance.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
Closing date: 22nd April 2025
Shortlisting date - 23rd April 2025
Interview date - To be confirmed
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
The deadline for applications is 22nd April 2025. Applications should be submitted via our recruitment portal MyNewTerm. Should you wish for a confidential conversation with Mrs Young - Headteacher, about the role, prior to application, then please email gyoung@sevenfieldsprimary.org
The River Learning Trust and Seven Fields Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Seven Fields Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 274 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Seven Fields Primary School website
Seven Fields school is a friendly school which strives to ensure that all children have a warm, safe and caring environment within which to learn.
Our school is a place where everyone is included and valued. We believe that all children have a voice and should be listened to. We are proud that all our pupils enjoy coming to school and that they know that their education and achievement is at the centre of everything we do.
We prepare children to be lifelong learners with a sense of enquiry and a drive to succeed. We encourage children to work together to enjoy their learning and we support them as they aspire to take risks and achieve personal progress.
We aim to create a learning environment where everyone can celebrate success, people show respect for one another and where children care for their learning environment.
In our school we want everyone to feel good about themselves and how they are growing to become future members of the wider community, with aspirations for their own future and clear goals to achieve success.
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