Teacher

Half Acres Primary Academy, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 5RE

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 February 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  28 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1 to UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Knowledge and skills

The ability to effectively:

• Create a stimulating and safe learning environment.
• Establish and maintain a purposeful working atmosphere.
• Plan, prepare and deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject that you teach, other relevant initiatives and the school’s own policies.
• Assess and record the progress of pupils’ learning to inform next steps and monitor progress.
• Demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and use a variety of strategies and practices to promote the diverse cultural and equality issues in the classroom.
• Teach using a wide variety of strategies to maximise achievement for all children including those with special educational needs and high achievers and to meet differing learning styles.
• Encourage children in developing self-esteem and respect for others.
• Deploy a wide range of effective behaviour management strategies, successfully.
• Communicate to a range of audiences (verbal, written, using ICT as appropriate).
• Use ICT to advance pupils’ learning, and use common ICT tools for their own and pupils’ benefit

What the school offers its staff

See school websites

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

About Half Acres Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 392 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Half Acres Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@ipmat.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/half-acres-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

Teacher - East Hub (based at Half Acres Primary Academy initially).
From September 2025 deployed to a school within the East Hub namely, Half Acres, Ackton Pastures and Girnhill Infant School.

Arranging a visit to Half Acres Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@ipmat.co.uk.

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