Primary Teacher
The Five Islands Academy, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NAThis job expired on 21 April 2023
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
21 April 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 April 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: This may be flexible in response to candidate circumstances.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
We have vacancies for two excellent teachers to join our friendly Five Islands Team on both St Mary’s and St Agnes Bases from 1st September 2023. We are looking for dynamic, enthusiastic teachers with strong pedagogy, community and organisational skills.
The successful candidate will teach in the Primary phase. We are looking for someone who will relish this opportunity to provide quality first teaching, develop an exciting and engaging curriculum and work in partnership with the primary team across the islands and our partner primary schools on the mainland.
Essential Criteria
- Qualified teacher status
- Recent experience of teaching in the primary phase in the UK
- Willingness to collaborate with Primary and Secondary colleagues
- Excellent working knowledge of recent developments in the Primary curriculum
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Outstanding personal classroom practice
- High expectations of all students
- Caring, friendly and approachable (for staff and students)
- Positive approach to excellent learning behaviour
- Excellent ICT skills
- Ability to manage time, prioritise and meet deadlines
- Proven track record of improving outcomes for pupils
- Effective deployment of classroom staff
- Open-minded, reflective and willing to embrace innovation or change
- Able to work constructively as part of a team understanding Academy roles and responsibilities including your own
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion and anti-racism in the Academy community and curriculum
- Strong understanding of statutory educational frameworks, including Safeguarding and the SEND Code of Practice
- High standards of personal behaviour appropriate to a visible role in our small community
- Commitment to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of teaching RWI
- Experience of using White Rose Maths and Literacy Tree English
- Active engagement with curriculum thinking or further professional studies
What the school offers its staff
What can we offer?
Supportive colleagues, committed to professional learning and development
Opportunities for curriculum leadership as part of our exciting through school team of leaders and curriculum designers
Outstanding technology: an iPad for each member of teaching and support staff, 1:1 iPads for each child, a wide range of online resources and learning platforms to support teaching
Dedicated Project Weeks during the year offering adventure, creativity and deep learning, in which staff can explore their own interests and those of their students
Bespoke learning spaces and resources to support students with SEND, including the Primary and Secondary ‘Harbours’ (personalised work and wellbeing spaces) and a dedicated Sensory Room on St Mary’s
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to DBS check.
We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within our Academy community. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage teachers and support staff from all backgrounds, cultures, perspectives and walks of life to apply to work with us.
We are a Church School, and as such nurture the wisdom of being in balance with doing. We appreciate our gifts and those we have to offer as members of a diverse global family.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Five Islands Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- All through school
- Size
- 243 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- maddyhicks@fiveislands.org
- Phone number
- 01720 424850
Five Islands Academy is a through-school in a remarkable islands setting, where we believe that every child is capable of achieving excellence. This all age, multi-site, Church of England academy serves the five island communities of Bryher, St Agnes, St Martins, St Mary’s and Tresco. It joined the Leading Edge Academies Partnership, a supportive, forward-thinking multi-academy trust, in 2019. Five Islands Academy is a high-achieving, creative and caring school with a real focus on building strong and inclusive relationships.
There are around 280 students on roll across 4 school sites. Secondary students and the majority of primary students are based on theSt Mary’s multi age site. This new building was opened in 2011 and provides a bright, open, well-resourced learning environment for the students. Key Stage 2 children from St Agnes, Tresco, Bryher and St Mary’s spend every Friday at Carn Gwaval, mixing with a wider group of peers, preparing for transition and making the most of the extended facilities. Secondary students from the off islands board at Mundesley House Monday to Thursday, returning home at the weekends.
We are proud to be an inclusive school, where each child is supported through their school journey and prepared for a successful transition to post-16 education and training. Our children’s learning has been transformed over the past six years through our focus on the FIA learning journey: a thoughtfully chosen curriculum and consistent, inclusive protocols for teaching. We have a powerful vision for navigating together through this journey to nurture curious, collaborative, creative global learners with rich knowledge and confident oracy. Our most recent Ofsted inspection (November 2023) judged our provision to be Good in all areas, with Outstanding for Personal Development, saying: "Pupils develop a powerful sense of community" through a culture and curriculum that, "expands their horizons and helps them to keep their options open."
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