Primary School Teacher

Sonning Common Primary School, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 9RJ

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  19 June 2026 at 3pm

• Date listed

  4 June 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Full time (part time considered)
• Contract type: Fixed term - One year
• Pay scale: M1 to M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a full-time class teacher to join our successful team (part-time considered).

The position could suit an ECT or a more experienced teacher as we simply want to appoint the right person to fit in with us and our values.

What we want in a new colleague is

• Someone who really loves working as part of a team
• Someone who shares and lives by our values: Respect, Truth, Kindness, Doing-your-best and Politeness
• Someone with a high level of IT competence

For a full job description and person specification please download our application pack or contact the school office for a copy

What the school offers its staff

• A warm, welcoming and committed staff team
• Knowledgeable and supportiveSenior Leadership Team and Governing Body
• Staff wellbeing package with a designated wellbeing coordinator
• Strong commitment to CPD (including leadership development opportunities) and managing staff workloads
• Comprehensive induction and access to experienced teaching mentors
• Stimulating academic environment with excellent academic results
• Teaching assistant support in all year groups
• Access to a range of high quality on-site facilities to support classroom learning, including a computer suite, library, all weather multi-use games area, woodland Forest School area and a newly refurbished swimming pool
• Access to a dedicated pastoral support team who work alongside our SENCo to support staff to meet the needs of all pupils
• Subsidised swimming lessons for children of staff

Flexible working opportunities

Teachers have weekly access to designated PPA time

All staff have term-time access to paid personal, family and wellbeing days

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Sonning Common Primary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check and appropriate Right to Work clearances in line with our recruitment and selection practices. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All users are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

SCPS Teacher Applicant Pack 2026.pdf - 675 KB (opens in new tab)

About Sonning Common Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained schools, Does not apply, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 330 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sonning Common Primary School website
• Email address: recruitment@sonning-common.oxon.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01189722105
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sonning-common-primary-school

Sonning Common Primary School is a values-led community, set in a beautiful rural site in South Oxfordshire.  We focus on our five values - Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Truth, and Doing your best – in everything we do.  We hope that this results in happy, productive children.  The school is set in vast rural grounds, with two large playing fields, two playgrounds, a full-size all-weather sports facility, and two forest camps.  We also have an on-site swimming pool.

Children at Sonning Common are taught by a diverse and committed teaching body, many of whom have experience in other careers and who can bring a varied range of views and ideas to inspire their classes.  Our results are consistently good, but we also aim to develop children more widely into responsible citizens, whose personal values reflect those of the school.  We always teach the full primary curriculum, and lessons and assemblies are enhanced by visits and visitors, our on-site public library, our garden and allotment, our sports and drama facilities and our forest camps.  We believe that all children leave us with a rounded and informed view of the world.  The achievements of our pupils in sport, music and drama are testament to this, as are the range of secondary schools they are able to move on to.

At Sonning Common we have a reputation for supporting all children, from extending the learning for those who are highly able to providing expert support for those with special educational needs, with both of these achieved through dedicated staff and tailored interventions.  Our pastoral support is superb, driven by a shared ethos that no child can learn effectively if they are anxious or unhappy.  Our wrap-around care (7.30am – 6.00pm) is always run by our own staff, and offers a range of activities and home-cooked healthy food.

Arranging a visit to Sonning Common Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@sonning-common.oxon.sch.uk.

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