Teacher of Reception (Early Years)
Exhall Cedars Infant School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV7 9FJThis job expired on 23 February 2024 – see similar jobs
Earliest start date
20 June 2024
Latest start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
23 February 2024 at 9am
Date listed
29 January 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12-14months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Main Scale (Not ECT)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Requirements:-
- QTS
- Experience of teaching within EYFS, working with a range of abilities including EAL, children with SEND and more able children.
- Clear, grammatically correct spoken English.
- A comprehensive understanding, or at least developing understanding, of Attachment and Trauma.
- High ambitions for yourself as a developing practitioner and a commitment to provide every child with the best possible start in life
- The skills of an excellent, creative, successful classroom practitioner with a dedication and determination to secure good and better progress and raise attainment for ALL children
- A sound knowledge of how young children learn and develop from EYFS
- The ability to work as part of a team to plan, teach and assess effectively for the next steps in children’s learning
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a commitment to developing and maintaining close links with the whole community
- To lead in at least one subject, depending on experience, to inspire all staff across the school in order to further enhance our existing progressive and rich curriculum. Please specify your particular interests and strengths in the Primary Curriculum Subjects, in your application.
- A flexible approach to challenge and change.
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Create a learning environment based on effective, positive behaviour strategies; both indoors and outdoors.
What the school offers its staff
Due to a Reception Class Teacher going on Maternity Leave in June, the staff, children and governors of this happy and successful Infant, Nursery & Pre-School wish to appoint an experienced Reception class teacher from September 2024 (or sooner) to enhance our busy, nurturing and supportive school. We are seeking to appoint an experienced Early Years teacher as a Maternity Cover, from September 2024. We already have a committed team of teaching and non-teaching staff and are keen to recruit someone with a love of life and learning and a great sense of humour!
We are looking for a hard-working practitioner who is passionate about achieving good outcomes for all our children. The successful applicant will be resilient and a great team player. They will be committed to providing the very best for the children in our school and for the local community that we serve.
Our successful applicant will teach and support children's development and learning from an Attachment and Trauma Informed basis.
Please don't judge us by our Ofsted rating, please take the time to read our latest Inspection report for yourselves and make your own judgements.
This role will be subject to a successful 6mth probationary period, to those new to Warwickshire.
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment.
The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Disqualifications; medical fitness; identity and right to work.
Please note that as part of the shortlisting process we carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on the shortlisted candidates.
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About Exhall Cedars Infant School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 125 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Exhall Cedars Infant School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin2635@welearn365.com
- Phone number
- 02476316034
We are a caring two-form entry Infant School. By having our own pre-school it has enabled us at Cedars to provide a full all-round nurturing, stimulating and educational environment for children from the age of 2yrs all the way through to the end of Y2.
We have an inclusive, nurturing ethos, within calm, attachment aware and trauma informed settings. All adults in our school treat each other and children with respect and kindness. We are committed to the emotional, as well as the academic, development of all our children, with SEMH being a high priority across the school, running through the very veins of our settings. The mental health and well-being of both children, staff and parents is a constant driving force at Cedars.
We are an OPAL school as we believe that every child has the right to access high-quality play experiences every single day!
We pride ourselves on the high quality, individualised CPD that we offer our staff across the school and preschool, with many internal promotions. (Including two of our TAs becoming teachers at our school)
Questionnaires demonstrate that our community and other external professionals speak highly of the school and the staff and we benefit from a committed, supportive Governing Board. Many parents state that in order to improve Cedars we would also have a KS2 provision!
Our successful applicant will also teach and support children's development and learning from an Attachment and Trauma Informed basis.
Please don't judge us by our Ofsted rating, please take the time to read our latest Inspection report for yourselves and make your own judgements.
Arranging a visit to Exhall Cedars Infant School
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