KS2 Lead Teacher

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a Key Stage Two lead teacher who can deliver consistently good or better teaching to ensure that children learn well and achieve excellent outcomes as well as support colleagues across the key stage.

Someone who can

• establish positive, professional relationships with children, families and colleagues
• have high expectations of every child whatever their background or starting point
• plan, resource and deliver sequences of lessons to a high standard that ensures real learning takes place and pupils make excellent progress.
• provide a classroom and school environment that is safe and supportive and helps all pupils to develop as effective learners.
• maintain good or better behaviour for learning in own classroom and across the whole school, supporting all children to demonstrate the school’s expectations
• support colleagues in planning and delivering an appropriately broad balanced, relevant and adapted curriculum for children
• support colleagues in raising achievement and attainment in teaching and learning through the quality of your own teaching

What the school offers its staff

To help you decide if this is the school for you here are a few things that we can offer

• families who work in partnership with us
• collaborative professional development based on best practice and current educational research, that gives you the chance to embed new skills and approaches into your practice
• a supportive team
• collaborative partnerships and shared teaching opportunities with experienced colleagues
• specialists for PE and music teaching
• amazing outside grounds
• an annual dedicated wellbeing day
• excellent transport links
• opportunities for professional development (e.g. NPQ)

Further details about the role

This role is suitable for a candidate who is ready to take their first steps into leadership outside of their year group as well as for experienced teachers who are able to make a substantial and sustained impact across the school.

We welcome visits to the school.

For successful applicants, interviews will be held on Friday 15th, Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th May.

Commitment to safeguarding

Normand Croft Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and well-being of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate checks and undertake an enhanced DBS. Applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of sex, race, marital status or disability.