Class Teacher - Year 5
Lea Valley Primary School
Haringey
- £31,650 - £49,084 pro rata
- Salary:
- Dependant on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 6 December 2024
Job overview
Lea Valley Primary School is looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic Class Teacher for a fixed term position. We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with experience teaching Year 5.
The ideal candidate will be confident in planning and delivering high quality lessons. They will be a reflective practitioner who is comfortable receiving feedback, is always striving to improve, who is organised, and who centres children and their learning and wellbeing in all that they do.
We serve a community in the heart of Tottenham, with a high proportion of our pupils coming from a background of disadvantage. We are proud to have a community with a plethora of languages, cultures and experiences. At Lea Valley we hold ourselves to a very high standard, and consistently work to go the extra mile for our pupils. Working for Lea Valley means you are truly committed to improving the lives and outcomes of children.
We are a school with six core values at our heart:
Ambition, courage, determination, honesty, respect and kindness.
We are led by these values, and expect all members of our school community, pupils and staff, to model all of these values all of the time. We are extremely passionate about pupils’ personal development and strive to ensure every pupil can reach their full potential.
We can offer you a competitive salary, a friendly and welcoming team of staff, pupils with excellent behaviour, and a supportive leadership team with wellbeing their priority. We run an extensive CPD program and are open to any opportunities to develop professionally.
Visits to the school are encouraged, and we welcome applications from applicants who feel they are the right fit!
If you feel this is you, we would love to hear from you!
Please note that interviews will be held on a rolling basis, and the advert may close sooner than the deadline.
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About Lea Valley Primary School
At Lea Valley Primary School we value all members of the school community as individuals who are involved in teaching and learning.
We recognise that positive behaviour and social skills provide a sound basis for working, sharing and playing together. We consider the physical, intellectual and emotional atmosphere of the school environment should enable individuals to feel good about themselves and believe in themselves as learners.
We do this by framing our working attitudes around 6 central values:
Ambition, Courage, Determination, Honesty, Kindness and Respect
Teachers will provide a broad and balanced curriculum which will develop the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for future learning. In the course of their daily work, the staff will contribute to the development of this ethos through:
- Providing a calm, controlled and effective working environment at all times, in which each child can achieve his or her maximum potential;
- Providing a welcoming environment, in which courtesy, kindness and respect are fostered;
- Providing positive role models;
- Providing a fair and disciplined environment, in line with the school’s ‘Behaviour Policy’;
- Maintaining purposeful and informative planning, record-keeping and assessment documents, in line with the school’s procedures;
- Effective management of their professional time;
- Providing children with meaningful, purposeful tasks, related to the new curriculum programmes of study and the Foundation Stage 12 areas of learning;
- Valuing and celebrating pupils’ success and achievements;
- Reviewing personal and professional development by providing appropriate INSET, training and support from colleagues in order to ensure a high level of professional expertise;
- Welcoming, supporting and educating students, both teaching and non-teaching;
- Developing links with the wider community to enhance the opportunities for teaching and learning.
In accordance with the school’s Equal Opportunities Policy, all children at Lea Valley Primary School must be given full access to the National Curriculum. Staff will endeavour to help all children to reach their full potential irrespective of race, gender, age or ability.
At Lea Valley Primary School, meeting the needs of all pupils means giving consideration to the educational requirements of different groups of learners in line with national and local guidelines. These groups include:
- Pupils with SEND;
- Gifted and talented pupils;
- Pupils with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties and/or who are disaffected and who may have regular unexplained absences or demonstrate apathy towards the experience of school;
- Pupils from under-achieving minority ethnic groups and pupils who need support to learn English as an additional language;
- Pupils who have a disability;
- Pupils who appear to be under-achieving in one or more key areas of the curriculum.
We aim to put in place a wide range of organisational and teaching strategies to respond to the diverse learning needs of our school community and to show that each one of our pupils is valued.
We seek to ensure that all pupils receive the appropriate assessment, curriculum and teaching to enable them to learn most effectively.
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