Class Teacher

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful applicant will

• Be an outstanding teacher who inspires and motivates pupils, parents and colleagues
• Be a strong team player
• Have experience and expertise of teaching children with SEND
• Ideally have an area of subject expertise
• Have the drive and ability to secure excellent rates of progress and attainment for all children no matter their starting point
• Have high expectations of themselves and others
• Have a secure understanding of how to use data to ensure progress
• Be committed to their own professional development
• Have strong interpersonal and organisational skills
• Develop a strong partnership with parents, other professionals and the wider community
• Contribute to the wider life of our school
• Be hardworking and resilient

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you

• A dedicated and motivated team of colleagues and governors, committed and passionate about driving the school forward and improving outcomes for all pupils
• A happy and harmonious school community with children who work hard and are ready to learn
• The opportunity to deliver a wonderful curriculum which intends to be ambitious and memorable and has creativity and inclusivity at its heart
• A wonderful opportunity to develop your own career
• A great opportunity to make a difference to the lives of our children
• Excellent facilities and village location

Further details about the role

Are you an outstanding teacher with a passion to make a difference to children’s lives?

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in a forward-looking school to develop your own teaching skills and improve outcomes for all children?

Barns Green Primary School is looking to appoint an outstanding and enthusiastic class teacher to for lower key stage 2.

We are keen to ensure that the very best practitioners apply and ideally candidates will have a few years teaching experience and be ready to lead a subject area however we are happy to consider the very best ECTs.

As a school our aim is for each and every child to develop a love of learning and to fulfil their potential, whatever their starting point or individual need. We have an exciting and engaging curriculum rooted in creativity, and inclusion.

We strive to ensure that all our lessons are both memorable and ambitious!

Here at school, we believe in the development of the whole child, ensuring that their social and emotional needs, as well as their academic needs are met.

Barns Green Primary is a small, friendly and forward-looking school that offers a caring, safe and exciting learning environment. Our children are wonderful, they love coming to school, have high expectations for themselves and love to learn. Our children achieve highly.

We are incredibly lucky to have wonderful facilities including a modern, purpose-built premises and extensive school grounds.

Commitment to safeguarding

Barns Green Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Barns Green Primary School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.