Class Teacher - The Disraeli School
Location: High Wycombe
Overview
The Disraeli School is a popular and friendly primary school, based in High Wycombe. The school is vibrant and has a welcoming learning environment where the children and adults all believe ‘learning is a journey not a race’.
The Co-Headteachers lead a dynamic and nurturing team who are all focused on improving outcomes for every individual child and supporting the families and the community. Through continuous professional development, and with a focus on well-being, staff are given the tools and resources to do their role to their highest standard and in line with our shared school values. Teams work together, so work is shared and the quality of provision is consistent across the year group. Team working is key and all the staff are supportive of each other.
Please arrange a visit – we’d love to show you around our wonderful school.
Salary Type: MPS
Salary details: Main Pay Scale
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 3 days a week 19.5 hours
Closing date: 21/11/2024 00:00
Interviews to be held: Interviews will be conducted before the closing date for successful shortlisted candidates.
About us
We build strong relationships with our parents and the local community and we are a school that is fully committed to inclusion and diversity.
The school has amazing facilities including a dance studio, green screen, laptops, iPads and other ICT facilities including full time IT support in house, outside gym equipment and an impressive sporting Astroturf.
Our school website will tell you a lot about our school; we are a community and we work together.
We are proud of our children at Disraeli; they are polite, well behaved and eager to learn. We offer you:
• Friendly staff and children
• Team-working and team-planning
• High quality professional development
• A forward-thinking and committed Senior Leadership Team and supportive Governing Body
About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and caring teacher to join our team in Year 2 - 3 days a week / class share. You will work alongside experienced teachers, giving you an opportunity to both learn from others and pass on your knowledge. Our motto ‘learning is a journey not a race’ is very much a focus for our staff and their development, as well as our children.
We have 3 classes in each year group, therefore each year group team work together on the planning and delivery of the curriculum. We have high quality support staff across the team to support the teachers and to cater for the variety of needs within the class.
We are a friendly team with supportive Team Leaders and Phase Assistant Headteachers.
To start 1st January 2025.
About you
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly skilled class teacher who is energetic and creative and who will support our core values.
You will have QTS – ECTs are welcome to apply; we have a skilled and experienced ECT mentor/leading practitioner whose role is to support and coach ECTs through their two-year induction period.
We are looking for a teacher who:
• Is a book lover – who loves to read children stories and immerse their class, in story language
• Is passionate about teaching,
• Is creative, energetic and take an enthusiastic approach to all aspects of school life
• Is keen to make learning fun, exciting and hands-on
• Is confident to work within a team – you must be a team player
• Genuinely wants to make a real difference to children’s lives
• Is eager to teach in a supportive and nurturing environment where they are encouraged and supported to blossom further in their teaching role
• Cares about the ‘whole-child’ and is committed to safeguarding
Other information
To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on 01494 445177.
Please send completed application forms to the email address: [email protected]
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
The Disraeli School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure check, other recruitment checks and suitable references.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
