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Sanskrit Teacher

Sanskrit Teacher

Avanti Court Primary School, Redbridge

Redbridge

  • New
Salary:
UNQ1 - MPS6
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2025
Apply by:
21 November 2024

Job overview

Please Note: This is a part time role working 10.5 hours per week.

About The Role

Join us as an inspiring Sanskrit Teacher where you’ll make a real difference in students’ lives!

In this rewarding role, you’ll plan and deliver engaging lessons, shape a positive learning environment, and actively support student progress and well-being.

As a key part of our growing and thriving team, you’ll plan lessons tailored to meet the needs of diverse learners, set clear objectives, and regularly assess their development.

You’ll also collaborate with colleagues, engage with parents, and contribute to our school’s community, supporting the ethos and values that make our school unique and exceptional.

Avanti Court is a vibrant primary school, which welcomes pupils and staff of all faiths and backgrounds.

The staff at Avanti Court Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our pupils. All staff that work at our school subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our children. This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both children and staff:

  • Educational excellence
  • Character formation
  • Spiritual insight

We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our children to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment, we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all children enjoy learning and surpass expectations.

What will you do?

  • Deliver the curriculum, prepare teaching materials, and ensure high standards of literacy and student progress.
  • Establish a safe and stimulating environment, manage classroom behavior, and promote student well-being.
  • Use assessment data to monitor student progress, set targets, and plan lessons.
  • Collaborate with colleagues, participate in professional development, and communicate effectively with parents and external bodies.
  • Promote and safeguard the welfare of students, ensuring compliance with school policies and protocols.

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

  • Great opportunities for professional development
  • Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
  • O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
  • Flexible working opportunities
  • Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
  • Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
  • Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes

What are we looking for?

  • Qualified to bachelor’s degree level in relevant or allied subject
  • Able to work independently, collaboratively and as part of a team
  • Excellent communication skills with children, parents and carers
  • Ability to create and maintain professional working relationships
  • Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Attached documents

About Avanti Court Primary School, Redbridge

 Avanti Court is a relatively new Hindu-faith school for boys and girls aged four to eleven. The school was set up in response to demand for primary school places in Redbridge and is set to be a world-class school. In 2014 it received its first Ofsted, giving evidence that this is a good school with a growing ambition.Based in Redbridge and open to students of any faith and from any borough, Avanti Court offers a broad, challenging curriculum focused on core skills and subjects as well as inspiring a love of Mathematics and Performing Arts. What makes the school distinctive is its values-based approach to the humanities, which encourages pupils to value themselves, others and the environment, empowering them to be effective learners and good citizens. The school also offers opportunities to study ethics, philosophy, Sanskrit (as the root of almost all eastern and western languages), leadership training, meditation and yoga.The school provides places for 840 children (by 2018), with 120 children in each year group as well as a Nursery. We aim to develop a small school model so that every child is well known, challenged and inspired to be the best they can be. The school serves a diverse community in which people from all background, faith and other world views are welcomed who are interested in their child having a Hindu-influenced educational experience.As a state-funded school there are no fees.iFoundation is the religious authority (Hindu) for the school. iFoundation draws upon the teachings of Krishna Chaitanya as practised by ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.        
 

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