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Year 6 Class Teacher

Thistle Hill Academy, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 3UD

This job expired on 15 March 2025 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  15 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week teaching - Monday to Friday - term-time plus a clear Directed Time plan
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Recognise that our current education system needs to radically change to better prepare our young people for the 21st century
• Want to move away from passive forms of learning and move towards interactive teaching methods that promote critical and individual thinking
• Are able to take advantage of the latest technology to deliver personalised learning that is accessible for all children, irrespective of their language skills, reading ability or any other factors that may present learning challenges
• Want to work with other staff as a community of learners that challenge traditional thinking
• Want to develop their own practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system
• Want to develop children as life-long, curious learners
• Want to build strong relationships with children that facilitate their learning
• Want to teach in enabling environments that promote flexibility, collaboration and independence

What the school offers its staff

• An additional day’s paid leave per academic year after 2 years service
• Staff not expected to respond to e-mails after 6.00pm or at weekends
• Free confidential counselling
• Teachers not expected to create lengthy plans
• Emphasis on ‘live marking’ and using TAs to lessen the volume of marking outside of lessons
• A maximum of six scheduled meetings per term

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.

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Additional documents

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

Teacher Person Specification .pdf - 457 KB (opens in new tab)

Teacher Job Descripton .pdf - 593 KB (opens in new tab)

About Thistle Hill Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 352 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Thistle Hill Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@stouracademytrust.org.uk
• Phone number: 01227931560
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thistle-hill-academy

Thistle Hill Academy is a large 2FE Primary School in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey.

The school is a member of The Stour Academy Trust, a forwarding thinking Multi Academy Trust of primary schools that are transforming that way that children learn in order to better prepare them for the 21st century.

For more information, please visit the school’s website: www.thistlehill.kent.sch.uk

For more information about The Stour Academy Trust, please visit the Trust website: www.thestouracademytrust.org.uk

Arranging a visit to Thistle Hill Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@stouracademytrust.org.uk.

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