Reception Class Teacher
Swallowfield Primary, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, MK17 8SRThis job expired on 19 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1-M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Swallowfield Primary is a Central Bedfordshire school and due to its location, supports pupils in both Milton Keynes and Central Beds. This is an exciting opportunity for the right teacher to join Swallowfield Primary in September 2025. We are now a full primary school (converted from a lower school) with excellent resources and facilities to ensure a great curriculum offer.
We are a supportive and friendly values school which sits at the heart of its local community in Woburn Sands. We are committed to providing high quality teaching to meet the needs of all our children, ensuring progress for all.
We want to appoint an enthusiastic, talented and creative teacher in our Early Years. The appointee will work collaboratively with the Early Years team and also whole school staff whereby the role will involve working with colleagues across the primary range.
You will need to be an excellent communicator and a person who is supportive of the whole staff team. You will be someone who is committed to equality of opportunity for all children within the school.
What the school offers its staff
We understand that as a teacher, there are various pressures that come with the extensive work required for all pupils to make great progress. Therefore, it is equally important to us that we support and invest in our teachers too through quality training opportunities and consideration of all teachers’ work/life balance.
We pride ourselves on being a close-knit team that feels like a family and have been previously recognised as having good behaviour and that pupils are motivated and eager to learn.
Further information about the job
Swallowfield Primary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for all roles.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
-childcare disqualification -Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) -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.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Swallowfield Primary
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 458 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Swallowfield Primary website
- Email address
- g.mcgill@swallowfieldprimary.com
- Phone number
- 01908 582101
Swallowfield Primary is a Central Bedfordshire school and due to its location, supports pupils in both Milton Keynes and Central Beds. This is an exciting opportunity for the right teacher to join Swallowfield Primary in September 2025. We are now a full primary school (converted from a lower school) with excellent resources and facilities to ensure a great curriculum offer.
Arranging a visit to Swallowfield Primary
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g.mcgill@swallowfieldprimary.com.
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