Teacher of Key Stage 2

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Great Eccleston, Preston, Lancashire, PR3 0ZJ

Deadline is tomorrow

Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
3 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 April 2024

Job details

Job role: Teacher
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Key stage: Key stage 2
Working pattern: Part time: 19.5 hours per week, FTE 0.6
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Teachers' Pay scale

What skills and experience we're looking for

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Great Eccleston wish to appoint a talented practitioner to join our hard working and successful staff team from September 2024. This is a permanent, part-time post working in our mixed Key Stage 2 class, years 4/5/6 . The hours are FTE 0.6 over three days per week.

The successful candidate will have access to opportunities for professional development and will be part of a very supportive team.

We are a very small school which recently converted to Academy status and are proud to be linked to the Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic Multi-Academy Trust (BEBCMAT). We are a vibrant school, full of life, and greatly value the contribution each individual makes to our school family. The children at St Mary’s form a close knit and caring community; are keen and interested in learning and above all enjoy attending St Mary’s. The school’s Governors are supportive and forward thinking.

There is a strong supportive team ethic at St Mary’s and staff work hard to provide a broad ranging curriculum which offers a large variety of learning opportunities and experiences for all children and take great pride in their work with them.

Visits to school and further discussion about the post are welcome and appointments can be made by contacting the school.

Are you….

Dedicated to working in close partnership with children, staff and parents within our caring Catholic school and village community?
A creative and enthusiastic teacher?
Flexible and willing to show initiative?
Organised and prepared to work tirelessly to find the answers to any challenge?
An effective classroom practitioner with high expectations of achievement and behaviour?
A highly motivated person who can demonstrate recent successful planning and delivery of teaching, learning and assessment in the primary Upper Key Stage 2 age range?
Have experience of delivering Key Stage 2 SATs?

Our children have asked for you to be:

A good combination of strict and fun!
Someone who understands every child
Someone who is able to teach mixed-year groups at a time
Someone who can help us to learn and is good at explaining things
Someone with a good sense of humour and a friendly smile every morning!

If the answer is yes to all of the above, then we would love to meet you!

For further details please refer to the application pack.

What the school offers its staff

In return we offer….

A dedicated, enthusiastic and professional school team who have a clear shared vision and wide-ranging expertise
Children who are excited and eager to learn
A skilled, ambitious governing body, committed to helping the school move forwards

We offer:

Children who are polite and interested in learning
Hard working, committed and caring staff
Supportive parents
A warm, friendly environment, in which children are at the heart of all we do
Good opportunities for professional development.

Commitment to safeguarding

BEBCMAT is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners, staff and visitors.

All posts are subject to:
● DBS
● Medical clearance
● Verification of qualifications and National Insurance number.
● Two references including a judgement about suitability to work with children.
● A member of the interview panel will be trained in implementing Child Protection procedures.
● In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023, online search be carried out.
For teaching positions, barred list checks and prohibition from teaching checks will be carried out.
For leadership positions, section 128 checks will be performed.