Year 1 Class Teacher Fulltime

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Pay: MPS Start Date: Flexible This is a little convoluted soplease bear with this! Our Year 1 teacher is pregnant andbecause of the current guidelines she willl need to work from home as fromMonday 14th June. We need to cover her for the remainder of this academic year.We then need to cover the Year 1 class for the following academic year.However, we also have a vacancyarising elsewhere in the school, so whilst the appointment for Year 1 could bea maternity contract if that is what you prefer, for the right candidate itcould also be a permanent contract. If it is a permanent contract, we wouldonly wish to appoint an Early Years specialist. Our current Year R teacher, whois also the Head of the Key Stage, has taught Year R for a number of years andshould move to Year 1 in the near future. If you are looking for a permanentappointment, you would have to be capable of teaching both Year R and 1, sothat we could facilitate this move at some stage. If you are only looking for a oneyear placement - and our teacher intends to take the entire year for hermaternity leave - then an ability to move to Year R obviously isnt an issue.So, the definite is that thisimmediate vacancy is for Year 1! Most other aspects are flexible. We appreciate that if you arecurrently employed, you wont be giving notice to join us in June. If that isthe case, we will cover the class for the remainder of the academic year withour existing staff. However, if only working for June and July suits yoursituation, please contact us, as we would rather avoid having to redirect staffto cover the class as they are all currently engaged supporting the childrenscatch up programme. The past two years have been amess for NQTs trying to complete their training and join the profession. Theremay be some of you free to join us in June, and who would like to stay for theyear, or even attain a permanent contract. We are going to be flexible in howwe solve this issue. Our priority, as you would expect, is to recruit thestrongest candidate or candidates possible, and to fit the solution aroundthem. We dont aspire to be top of SATsleague tables or to have an Outstanding from Ofsted. But we do have the highestpossible standards. We simply feel that education is about far more than thesetwo measures. Our goal is to deliver an enriched, broad curriculum whichdevelops our childrens characters to the utmost. Please visit our website tolearn about our ethos. Our staff are very highlymotivated. We complete every aspect of our work to a standard that we wouldwish for our own child. This is a really nurturing environment and if youjoined us, we would support you to the hilt, particularly if you were an NQT,so that you too develop your skills to the utmost. I encourage you to visit theschool. I will hold tours for anyone wishing to visit, when I will happily talkthrough all aspects of the position. Please feel free to telephone or email foran informal conversation first if you prefer. Closing Date: 21/04/2021 at 23:00Interviews: Friday 30th AprilInformation about the schoolSt Peters is a small, delightfulvillage primary school situated in the beautiful medieval village of Aylesford,housed in a Victorian building and the old vicarage, opposite the villagechurch. We take pride in our caring and supportive attitude to everyone at theschool and aim to ensure that the continued professional development of all staffis a priority. We have classes of 26, all ofwhich are taught by qualified teachers in separate age group classes. These aresupported by a sizeable team of Teaching Assistants. Our ethos is that we aim todevelop the child as a whole. We are not focussed on SATs league tables orachieving a judgement of Outstanding from Ofsted. We want to deliver to ourpupils the type of rounded education that we would wish for our own children.This means delivering the widest and richest curriculum possible. We aim toprovide our children with an education which prepares them for the adult lifeahead of them. Children learn a modern foreignlanguage from Year R and continue to do so throughout their years here. EveryThursday is a Creative Day, when we only teach art, music, MFL and PE.Education is not about focussing your efforts on achieving the highest possibleSATs grades; real education is about providing our children with the bestpossible teaching and the widest possible curriculum. We want our children to be bothsupported, and to be shown that it is quite alright to take a chance and tofail. They must learn that being taken out of their comfort zone is excitingand not frightening. We are preparing our children for life, not a test. But ifwe do so professionally, with high quality teaching, then they will succeed intests as best as they are able, as well as being fully prepared for the lifewhich awaits them. We have a small team of dedicatedstaff who love their school and work extremely hard to ensure that our childrenreceive the best possible education. We support each other and appreciate eachothers strengths. This is a friendly and supportive environment and we welcomelike minded individuals who wish to join us. Our School and all its personnelare committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. Thispost is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure andBarring Service. KTJ1