Teacher MPS KS1/lower KS2

Wrenbury Primary School, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 8EN

28 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  28 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  28 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 1 day per week (6.5 hours)
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650 - £38,034 depending on experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

Position: KS1/lower KS2 Teacher (0.2- 1 day per week)Start date: September 2025

Our ambition at Wrenbury Primary School is to provide the very best education for every child.

We are looking to appoint a committed, creative, experienced KS1/ lower KS2 practitioner, who shares our vision to ‘nurture happy, healthy and hopeful children prepared for tomorrow’.

We seek an inspiring and personable colleague to join our dedicated, friendly team at Wrenbury

We wish to appoint someone who:

• has a genuine passion and excitement about children’s learning
• has high aspirations for all children to achieve their full potential in all aspects of their life
• will readily share their personal enthusiasm for children’s literature
• is able to plan and deliver a high quality, bespoke curriculum - a curriculum that is literacy-led, engaging and ambitious for all our children
• will utilise fully the fantastic space and resources offered within our extensive school grounds and award winning, village setting to provide a high quality, enriched, creative curriculum.
• will work collaboratively and flexibly with all the Wrenbury Team
• will have high expectations and aspirations of the children, colleagues and themselves
• understands that ‘a happy mind learns best’
• has a can-do attitude and looks for solutions not problems
• will work with us to be the best we can be in our drive to continuously improve
• will ‘go the extra mile’ to ensure the very best for every child at Wrenbury

Guidance Notes for Applicants

Please read the important information in these guidance notes prior to completing and submitting your application using the Cheshire East Application Form.

• You must complete the application form to apply for this vacancy.
• There is opportunity within the application to provide evidence of your experiences, skills and qualifications as related to the person specification and job description. You may provide further details on additional sheets, if required.
• Please ensure all gaps in employment and education history are fully explained on your application form. We may wish to verify this information during the recruitment process.
• Make sure you return your application form by the closing date.
• No applications will be accepted once the closing date has passed.
• After the closing date the applications will be passed onto the recruitment team for short listing.
• Please be aware that it is not normally possible to rearrange the set interview date.

You will be asked to sign a copy of your electronically submitted application form at interview.

References:

As this post forms part of the Children’s Workforce, references will be taken up for shortlisted candidates before interview. To help us get a quick response, please ensure that you provide us with referees who are contactable and available. If possible, please provide e-mail addresses for your referees and advise them that they will be asked to provide a reference for you if you are shortlisted for the post.

Application forms need to be emailed to Rebecca Charlesworth the Head-teacher, using the head@wrenbury.cheshire.sch.uk email address. Please ensure your application arrives before the deadline for receipt of applications (Friday 28th March at 12:00 noon).

Class teacher – Job Description [Salary M1-4 scale depending on experience]

The responsibilities of the post are to be performed in accordance with the provisions of the most up to date edition of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document and within the range of teachers’ duties set out in that document.

Job Purpose

• To carry out professional duties and to have responsibility for an assigned class or age group.
• To be responsible for the day-to-day teaching and learning and management of an assigned class or age group;
• To be responsible for the health, safety, behaviour and welfare of the pupils during on-site and off-site activities.
• To promote the vision, aims and objectives of the school, maintaining its philosophy of education and its ethos, ‘We all matter’

Main duties and responsibilities

• To create and manage a caring, supportive, purposeful and stimulating environment which is conducive to children’s learning in KS1 and lower KS2.
• To plan and prepare the provision and delivery of an outstanding KS1 and lower KS2Curriculum.
• To identify clear teaching and learning opportunities, with appropriate challenge and high expectations.
• To maintain good order and discipline among the pupils, safeguarding their health and safety.
• To plan for the learning of the whole class, groups or individual pupils ensuring the learning meets the child’s next steps.
• To plan opportunities to develop the social, moral, spiritual, emotional and cultural aspects of pupils’ learning.
• To maintain a regular system of observation, monitoring, assessment, recording and reporting of children’s progress and development.
• To prepare appropriate records for the transfer of pupils to their next year.
• To ensure effective deployment of support staff within the classroom, including volunteers.
• To participate in staff meetings.
• To contribute to the development and co-ordination of a particular area of the curriculum as a subject lead
• To play a part in the whole school team, actively involved in decision-making on the preparation and development of policies and programmes of study, teaching materials, resources, methods of teaching and pastoral arrangements.
• To ensure that school policies are reflected in daily practice.
• To communicate and consult with parents on all aspects of their child’s progress
• To liaise with the SENDco and outside agencies when appropriate eg. Educational Psychologist, SaLT, CAHMS
• To continue professional development, maintaining a portfolio of training undertaken and share with colleagues as appropriate.
• To meet with parents regularly across the school year to feedback progress.
• To support the Head teacher in promoting the vision, values and ethos of Wrenbury Primary School.
• To promote the emotional and physical wellbeing of all children and to support the school in safeguarding children though relevant policies and procedures.

• To promote equality as an integral part of the role and to treat everyone with fairness, respect and dignity.
• To recognize that health and safety is a responsibility of every employee, to take reasonable care of self and others and to comply with the School’s Health and Safety policy and any school-specific procedures / rules that apply to this role.

An annual review of this job description and allocation of particular responsibilities will take place as part of the school’s Performance Management Review.

What the school offers its staff

As a smaller school, relationships are key. More than anything, we want someone with an outgoing, team-spirited personality, who is both inspirational and aspirational and who will embrace our 'we all matter' ethos.

In return, we can offer you:

• a happy place of work
• well-behaved children with a genuine excitement for learning
• a hardworking, supportive team of colleagues
• professional development opportunities
• excellent parent, school and community partnerships
• dedicated governors
• a school at the heart of its local community.

If this fantastic opportunity excites you, do apply. We look forward to hearing from you.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers, and external agencies to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subjected to an Enhanced Disclosure check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. Other safer recruitment checks including an on-line check for shortlisted candidates will be undertaken.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to head@wrenbury.cheshire.sch.uk

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.

Additional documents

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

KS1 and Lower KS2 Class Teacher.pdf - 155 KB (opens in new tab)

Person Specification.doc - 1010 KB (opens in new tab)

About Wrenbury Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 128 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Wrenbury Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: admin@wrenbury.cheshire.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01270260656
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wrenbury-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Built in 1876 and set in expansive and well-resourced grounds, Wrenbury School benefits from its proximity to Wrenbury railway station, the Llangollen Canal, and St Margaret’s Church. We value and embrace the contributions and opportunities that the local community offers the school and our children. We strive for our school to be a place where everyone has a sense of self, a sense of place and a sense of belonging, both within our rural community and the wider world and where everyone in our school family is valued for their uniqueness and individuality.

‘We thrive as a forward-thinking, rural community school that nurtures happy, healthy and hopeful children prepared for tomorrow’ is our vision statement. We seek to achieve this by providing a safe, inspiring, and creative learning environment where all can flourish.

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