Upper Key Stage 2 - Part time Teacher

Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB21 5JQ

25 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2026

• Closing date

  15 May 2026 at 11am

• Date listed

  20 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main Scale Teacher 0.4
• Additional allowances:

  Main Scale Teacher 0.4

Upper Key Stage 2 - Part time Teacher job summary

This is not just a teaching role. It is a place to put down roots.

Great Wilbraham CE Primary Academy is the kind of school many teachers spend years hoping to find.

Tucked within a close‑knit rural village community, Great Wilbraham is a small Church of England school where children are deeply known, relationships are strong, and teaching is treated with respect and seriousness. It is a place where staff greet families by name, where children feel safe to be themselves, and where learning is shaped by ambition, clarity and care.

We are part of ACT Multi Academy Trust, but Great Wilbraham has a very clear identity of its own: warm, relational, thoughtful and quietly ambitious.

We are now looking for a part‑time Upper Key Stage 2 teacher who wants more than a timetable — someone who wants to be part of a school community that values them as a person and a professional.

Why Great Wilbraham really is different

Great Wilbraham is a school where:

• Relationships truly matter.
  Children are known well. Staff know one another. Parents feel welcome and listened to. Teaching is built on trust, not systems alone.

• Children want to learn.
  Our pupils are curious, reflective and eager to be challenged. They enjoy being stretched and take pride in their learning because expectations are high and humane.

• Small means meaningful.
  In a small school, your teaching does not disappear into the background. Your impact is visible every day — in children’s confidence, progress and sense of belonging.

• Leadership is close, human and principled.
  Leaders at Great Wilbraham know their staff well. They lead with clarity, kindness and moral purpose, not distance or hierarchy. Support is real, timely and personal.

• Teaching is respected as complex, demanding work.
  There is no culture of performativity here. Teachers are trusted to teach well, reflect deeply, and grow professionally without constant pressure.

This is a school where it is genuinely possible to teach with depth, not just survive the week.

Upper Key Stage 2: teaching that truly matters

Upper Key Stage 2 is one of the most formative phases in a child’s life.

At Great Wilbraham, this role exists to ensure that children:

• leave primary school academically secure and confident;
• believe in their own ability to think, reason and succeed;
• feel known, valued and capable as learners;
• and are truly ready — academically, socially and emotionally — for secondary education.

This is teaching that changes trajectories, not just test scores.

ACT FRAME: clarity, not overload

Across ACT Multi Academy Trust, teaching is grounded in ACT FRAME - Teaching That Transforms, Learning That Lasts.

ACT FRAME:

• gives teachers absolute clarity about what excellent teaching looks like;
• removes the churn of initiatives and trends;
• embeds ambition, inclusion and consistency into everyday practice;
• and protects professional autonomy within a shared language.

At Great Wilbraham, ACT FRAME means teachers can focus on what matters most: knowing children well and teaching them brilliantly.

Why work for ACT?

ACT is a small, intentionally designed Trust — close enough to understand its schools deeply, and principled enough to resist fads and shortcuts.

Working for ACT means:

• being trusted as a skilled professional;
• accessing high‑quality CPD rooted in coaching, reflection and real classroom practice;
• being supported by leaders who value integrity over optics;
• having space to grow professionally without burning out;
• and being part of a Trust where values genuinely guide decisions.

ACT’s Christian ethos — shaped by Agape (love), Courage and Thankfulness — creates a culture where dignity, service and responsibility matter, while warmly welcoming staff and families of all faiths and none.

ACT holds a simple belief: when teachers thrive, children thrive.

Who this role is for

This role is for a teacher who:

• loves teaching Upper Key Stage 2;
• believes every child can succeed;
• values ambition and inclusion equally;
• wants to teach part‑time in a way that is sustainable and meaningful;
• is reflective, thoughtful and professionally curious;
• and sees teaching as more than a job — as a vocation.

You may be an experienced teacher seeking balance and depth, or someone ready to give their best energy to a role that truly matters.

Come and see Great Wilbraham for yourself

We know that schools can sound wonderful on paper — but what really matters is how a place feels.

We warmly encourage prospective applicants to visit Great Wilbraham CE Primary Academy, to see the school in action, meet the team, and get a genuine sense of the warmth, ambition and relationships that define our community.

Visitors often comment on:

• the calm, purposeful atmosphere across the school,
• the curiosity and confidence of our pupils,
• the strong relationships between staff and children,
• and the sense that teaching here is both ambitious and deeply human.

A visit is not part of an interview process.
It is simply an opportunity to experience the school, ask questions, and decide whether this is a place where you could see yourself teaching — and thriving.

If you value relationships, clarity, inclusion and a strong sense of purpose, we believe that Great Wilbraham will speak for itself.

To arrange a visit or an informal conversation, please contact the school office — we would be delighted to welcome you.

A final invitation

If you are looking for:

• a school where people genuinely care,
• a classroom where children are eager to learn,
• leadership that is human, thoughtful and principled,
• and a Trust that values clarity, wellbeing and excellence in equal measure,

then Great Wilbraham and ACT could be the place you have been searching for.

Come and teach somewhere your work will be known, valued and felt — every single day.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

ACT Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, parents and volunteers to actively share this commitment. All appointments are conditional and subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) as well as social media checks. We welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 86 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-wilbraham-cofe-primary-school-cambridge

Great Wilbraham Church of England Primary Academy is a friendly village school set in an attractive rural village about 4 miles east of Cambridge. Our school is committed to providing an excellent standard of education with a strong caring Christian ethos.

We are constantly striving to provide a school environment which values the achievements of all our children and fosters the development of secure relationships promoting self-esteem, tolerance and concern for others.

The school was re-housed in a new building in 1995 and has since been extended several times, giving us excellent facilities. It is surrounded by extensive grounds providing a rich resource to enhance the curriculum.

In September 2023 we joined the newly formed ACT Multi Academy Trust. The ACT Multi Academy Trust is a connected learning community. We share a culture of collaboration. Our team of highly skilled staff work passionately to provide the best learning opportunities through a meaningful curriculum, bespoke to each school, where children and adults acquire the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes to prepare and strengthen them for their role in society: today, tomorrow and in the future. Rather than just looking at pupil outcomes and results whilst at school, we envisage the future lives of our children, as engineers, designers, artists and teachers. We strive for them to flourish in the world.

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