Classroom Teacher

The role in a nutshell

As a teacher at Denewood Academy, you will have the opportunity to be a mentor and a role model for children who need the guidance and support which your qualifications and experience will bring to the role.

Classroom assistants and teachers collaborate with our children to secure the very best outcomes they deserve - by creating beautiful and important work that they can share with peers and their families. We teach our pupils through the principles of a primary model which allows to build strong relationships and respond to their learning needs.

Suppose nothing makes you happier and more fulfilled than seeing children discover their passion, experience success in learning, or come to understand the importance of perseverance? In which case, this opportunity at Denewood Academy is for you. Teaching here, you will bring your deep love of learning, and pass on knowledge and passion to our children every day.

Why the Academy needs this role

This fantastic opportunity has become available as the Academy continues to drive its core ambition to offer an excellent education to all children.

You will help children learn and develop the skills and character required to foster confidence, curiosity, creativity and empathy. We believe that with these values, they will progress with the spirit and skills necessary to embrace life’s challenges.

The opportunity

This role is a rare opportunity to combine creativity, intellectual challenge, and fun to light a flame of passion in our children's lives.

You will be supported by an incredibly focused staff team and a leadership group that are relentless in their pursuit of excellence. Together, we exhaust all methods possible to make an optimum learning environment for our children.

The wider school community supports Denewood Academy. These partnerships are quickly secured in our community when you share your passion for learning, exploring, asking questions, and coming up with new and better solutions to problems. The successful candidate will become an essential part of the daily interactions with parents and community members as you build positive lasting relationships that help inspire children in your care and shape their future interests.

Through your kindness and empathy, your class will know you are there to pick them up as they are stretched and challenged through our curriculum.

The candidate

The ideal candidate will be:

·       Passionate about complex children and committed to meeting their personal needs.

·       Committed to school improvement and raising levels of pupil achievement

·       A reflective practitioner with the ability to plan strategically

·       Someone who can demonstrate excellent organisational, communication and inter-personal skills with colleagues and parents/carers

·       will share and support the school’s ethos, and have energy and commitment to all aspects of school life

·       Focused on high expectations of learning and behaviour

·       Committed to inclusion, and have a caring and adaptable approach in supporting children of all abilities

·       A good team player and committed to the wider life of school

·       A suitably qualified teacher, ideally with experience of special educational needs

We welcome applications from everyone who believe they meet the expectations of the role regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. In order to ensure that our staff composition is representative of the communities we serve, applications from groups who are currently under-represented in education including people with disabilities and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are particularly encouraged.