Job description
Teacher EYFS/Year 2 - Fixed Term
This position is fixed term with an opportunity to apply for permanent position.
Join our dynamic and inclusive primary school as a teacher working across reception and Year 2. We pride ourselves on creating a warm and welcoming environment for both students and staff alike. We foster a supportive team atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to thrive, ensuring the best possible outcomes for our students.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the class teachers for Reception and Year 2 teaching these year groups. You will be an integral part of our dedicated team, collaborating with experienced professionals to create an inclusive and nurturing educational experience for all.
Duties and responsibilities:
Teaching:
This position is fixed term with an opportunity to apply for permanent position.
Join our dynamic and inclusive primary school as a teacher working across reception and Year 2. We pride ourselves on creating a warm and welcoming environment for both students and staff alike. We foster a supportive team atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to thrive, ensuring the best possible outcomes for our students.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the class teachers for Reception and Year 2 teaching these year groups. You will be an integral part of our dedicated team, collaborating with experienced professionals to create an inclusive and nurturing educational experience for all.
Duties and responsibilities:
Teaching:
- Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach
- Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate
- Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of pupils’ you teach
- Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on these demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn
- Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; more able; EAL; disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them
- If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies e.g. systematic synthetic phonics
- Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment
- Make accurate and productive use of assessment to secure pupils’ progress
- Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to reflect on progress, their emerging needs and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study
- Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
- Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired as appropriate
- Participate in arrangements for examinations and assessments within the remit of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
Behaviour and Safety:
- Establish a safe, purposeful and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly
- Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
- Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary
- Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils
- Have high expectations of behaviour, promoting self control and independence of all learners
- Carry out playground and other duties as directed and within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
- Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school, raising any concerns following school protocol/procedures
Team working and collaboration:
- Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities at the school, which relate to the learners, curriculum or organisation of the school including pastoral arrangements and assemblies
- Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing the development of effective practice with them
- Ensure that colleagues working with you are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil
- Cover for absent colleagues within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document
Fulfill wider professional responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with others to develop effective professional relationships
- Deploy support staff effectively as appropriate
- Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regard to pupils’ achievements and well-being using school systems/processes as appropriate
- Communicate and co-operate with relevant external bodies
- Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school
- Be a role model and act as an ambassador for Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School in and outside the school by: speaking positively about the school in the local community; upholding a commitment to excellence at all times and by dressing appropriately and smartly in accordance with the school’s dress code
Administration:
- Register the attendance of and supervise learners, before, during or after school sessions as appropriate
- Participate in and carry out any administrative and organisational tasks within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
Professional development:
- Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and well being, refining your approaches where necessary responding to advice and feedback from colleagues
- Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the school or as developed as an outcome of your appraisal
- Proactively participate with arrangements made in accordance with the school’s appraisal systems
Other:
- To have professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school in which you teach, and maintain high standards in your own attendance and punctuality
- Perform any reasonable duties as requested by the headteacher
Educ8
www.educ8training.co.uk
Ystrad Mynach, United Kingdom
Unknown / Non-Applicable
51 to 200 Employees
Company - Private