Reception Class Teacher and EYFS & KS1 Lead
Barton Park Primary School, Oxford, OX3 9WN30 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £36,874.00 - £52,475.00 Annually (FTE) Main scale/UPS + TLR2(1) for phase leadership
Reception Class Teacher and EYFS & KS1 Lead job summary
Reception Class Teacher and EYFS & KS1 Lead
Barton Park Primary School within The River Learning Trust, OX3 9WN
Main scale/UPS + TLR2(1) for phase leadership
Are you an outstanding child-centred early years teacher, with leadership qualities, looking for the next step in your career?
Barton Park Primary School is seeking an ambitious, inspirational reception teacher and Early Years & KS1 lead to join our team to help develop excellence within our new and growing school. You will have high aspirations for all children, a proven track record of sustained improvement and will embody the caring ethos and values of our school.
Barton Park Primary is a ‘good’ school and is at an exciting stage of its development, building upon the existing successes and growing in both size and strength. This role will work alongside a newly appointed KS2 phase lead to provide a vital strand of middle leadership. The successful candidate will teach in our reception classes and have regular non contact time to complete strategic and supportive leadership work across nursery to year 2.
What skills / experience are required?
Qualified Teacher Status (UK)
A secure knowledge of how children learn and adaptive teaching methods to ensure excellent progress for all.
A proven track record in raising standards
Experience in teaching reception and, ideally, Key Stage One.
Excellent knowledge of the EYFS Statutory Framework and KS1 curriculum.
Good interpersonal and leadership skills
The ability to excite, inspire and motivate pupils and staff
A commitment to evidence based approaches and an openness to new ideas and research
Excellent classroom behaviour management through a range of positive strategies.
A commitment to success through effort and teamwork
A commitment to your own continued professional development.
A willingness to be fully involved in the life of the school.
Patience, and a sense of humour.
What we can offer
The successful candidate will be joining a school with:
A diverse school community.
Vibrant and curious children, who are eager to learn and love to please.
A wonderful new-build school, which is well-resourced with space to spare.
A large, purpose built outside environment.
A forest school site within easy walking distance of school.
A supportive leadership team and governing body.
A team of caring, committed professionals who nurture the children - and each other! Wellbeing and workload are given more than just lip-service, we strive to be both practically and emotionally supportive.
As part of the River Learning Trust, we can also offer you an excellent network of professional support and CPLD that will help you grow as a professional through access to some of the county’s best teachers and leaders. Flexible working will be considered.
Visits to the school are positively encouraged. If you wish to find out more about our school or this role, you are invited to contact the Headteacher for a discussion and/or tour of the school. Please do so via our office: office@bartonparkprimary.org / 01865415800
How to apply / closing date / where to find further details
NB. Online applications through MyNewTerm
- Closing Date for applications: Monday 20th January 2025
- Shortlisting: Tuesday 21st January
- Interviews: Wednesday 29th January 2025
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.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with Bryony McCraw, Headteacher, about the role, prior to application, then please email office@bartonparkprimary.org or telephone 01865 415800.
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park 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.
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust and Barton Park Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism.
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 Barton Park Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 154 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Barton Park Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Barton Park School is a new primary school, including a nursery, on the Barton Park Housing Development situated on the outskirts of the City of Oxford. Our school opened in September 2020 to children in reception and a mixed years 1 & 2 class. The school will grow over the coming years with a final capacity of 315, with a potential to expand further to 420, subject to community demand.
Our place within the heart of a new and developing community, with easy walking, cycle and bus routes, is a perfect location for families and staff alike. Our lovely new building and the fantastic facilities available on site, along with our neighbouring sports pavilion, make for a very special place for children to learn and flourish - and for teaching staff to teach.
We have high aspirations for all our children. Our curriculum is designed to provide children with high quality, rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Enquiry and creativity are central to our learning, and these principles are underpinned by a solid foundation in the key skills. We aim to build on each child’s natural curiosity and help them become enquiring, resilient and confident learners, able to communicate their ideas to both peers and adults. Quality teaching, targeted support and enriching, open-ended learning opportunities - alongside well planned indoor and outdoor environments - allow all children to develop their thinking skills, independence and individual talents.
Our six school values were chosen in collaboration with the school community: respect, kindness, equality, independence, perseverance, curiosity. It is important to us that these values reflect both emotional and intellectual growth and that they can be embraced by everyone within our diverse community.
Barton Park is committed to offering a variety of extra-curricular activities after school and developing these opportunities as we grow. Our children already enjoy access to dance, sports, art and music clubs, led by experts and have had the chance to perform on the stage at Pegasus Theatre and The Town Hall. Such experiences are key to fostering confidence and self-belief, as well as extending horizons and understanding of others.
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