Primary Class Teacher
Qatar International School
Qatar
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 31 January 2025
Job overview
· Start date: August 2025
· Contract: Full-time, indefinite, fully sponsored
· Generous tax-free package including:
o Competitive basic salary plus additional allowances – all tax-free.
o Free furnished private accommodation with all utility bills paid.
o Free return flights home each year.
o Generous paid annual leave.
o Free school places, flights, and medical insurance for children.
o Allowances for extra baggage and legal documents.
o Comprehensive private medical insurance for Qatar and your home country.
o Enhanced end-of-service gratuity package for long servers.
o Unlimited sunshine in Qatar – consistently ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest and safest countries!
Our happy, supportive, and tremendously successful Primary team, certified as one of the best in the world by British Schools Overseas, are now looking for outstanding Primary Teachers to join us for the start of the new academic year 2025/26.
If you are a UK-qualified teacher with experience of delivering the National Curriculum of England – and you have a creative, positive and professional attitude – we would love to hear from you.
About you
As part of the Primary team, you will be responsible for planning and delivering the best quality lessons to engage and challenge your students. You will have high standards and expectations in every element of your work.
To be considered for a vacancy, you should:
· Hold a good bachelor’s degree and PGCE qualification from a reputable UK university.
· Have experience of teaching the English National Curriculum.
· Demonstrate good knowledge and understanding of Primary Assessment.
· Be keen to develop your career, supported by our world-class professional development.
· Genuinely love what you do – showing plenty of enthusiasm, creativity and energy.
· Be a real team player, always prepared to go the extra mile and support your colleagues as we reach our goal: to become the best International School in the world.
We can also consider applications from outstanding newly qualified teachers (ECTs), whom we can support through to award of Qualified Teacher Status.
About us
QIS is one of the best international schools both in the nation of Qatar and in the wider Middle East region – we are one of a selected number of schools in the world to hold BSO’s ‘Gold Standard’. Our last BSO report (2023) wrote:
“Qatar international School offers an excellent British education that fully meets the needs of its students: as a result, they enjoy school, learn well and thrive”.
“The students at QIS are characterised by their remarkable enthusiasm for learning and their exceptional behaviour, which unequivocally reflect their profound motivation to excel academically. Students’ behaviour is exceptional, as is their attendance in school indicating high levels of enjoyment”.
“Relationships at all levels provide a highly positive learning environment where children thrive. Adults nurture children’s personal development and well-being extremely effectively”.
Our Primary School – currently comprised of about 1,100 students – is a vibrant, fun and multicultural place of learning. It offers an engaging and warm environment, where children and staff alike are encouraged to investigate and develop their curiosity.
Across each Key Stage, our students enjoy a creative, skills based, and thematic approach to learning. Specialist lessons for Arabic, Islamic Studies, PE, Music, and Library form part of students’ personalised timetables, supporting further our broad and balanced curriculum offer. Our class teachers are highly trained in programmes such as Talk 4 Writing and Read-Write-Inc, which we use to enrich the children’s learning. Classes are supported by trained, qualified, and experienced Learning Support Practitioners.
Safeguarding
Qatar International School is committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Qatar International School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo recruitment screening processes including an interview, references from past employers, and a Criminal Background check from all countries of adult residence. Please note that the school will also carry out an online search, inclusive of social media, for shortlisted candidates.
We require applicants to declare all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent'. All information provided will be treated as confidential. All applicants, (regardless of position) are requested to read QIS’s safeguarding policy, available on the school website, of our commitment to safeguarding children.
Application and interview
Please apply by emailing us your CV and a brief covering letter at recruitment@qis.org explaining why you’d be a great fit for QIS.
Initial interviews may be conducted online or face-to-face if the candidate is in Qatar. Successful candidates will be fully supported all the way through to their joining day – and beyond.
Unfortunately, due to the high volume of excellent applications we receive, we are unable to notify those who have not been shortlisted.
About Qatar International School
Qatar International School is a British International private school located in Doha, the capital city of the State of Qatar. The school follows the latest National Curriculum of England and Wales for students ranging between 3 and 18 years of age.
The school is led and managed by British professionals and it strives to maintain the highest standards of the current British education system, whilst also supporting its Arabic culture and international context.
Our long and illustrious history traces its roots back over 40 years to 1977, making us one the oldest British schools in Qatar. Since then, we have changed and grown significantly- including a move to our current location in 2001. A purpose-built campus in the Diplomatic Quarter of Dafna, close to the skyscrapers and business centre of West Bay. The school continues to thrive – expanding and developing its excellent specialist facilities. These include science laboratories, ICT suites, a swimming pool, playing fields, and large sports halls. Indeed, from very small beginnings over 40 years ago, QIS has now grown into one of the largest and most prestigious schools in the country, with more than 2,100 students on role.
In 2015, the school received the highest possible grading from the Qatar National Schools Accreditation programme, when inspected by the country’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
Then, in 2020, QIS achieved two highly prestigious international accreditations:
Firstly, QIS was judged to be ‘outstanding’ in every category of the UK government’s British School Overseas (BSO) inspection framework – only the third school, at the time, in the world ever to have achieved this.
Secondly, in the same year, QIS became the first school in the world to be awarded Council for International Schools (CIS) accreditation by a new fast-track process for outstanding schools. The final CIS report included over 100 individual commendations and helps to make us one of the most highly regarded educational establishments in the region.
Our latest British School Overseas inspection in 2023 was again judged to be “outstanding” in every category.
QIS is also the only school in the Middle East accredited to deliver OLEVI training courses straight from the UK, such as The Outstanding Teacher’s Programme. The school also partners with many other world-renowned training providers to ensure cutting-edge best practice. We are proud to say that quality training for staff is part of the QIS culture.Under the leadership of our Executive Principal, Deane Baker (who joined us in September 2013), we have achieved various national and international accreditations at the highest levels. We hold numerous high achievement awards for our international examination success.
Education is highly valued in Qatar. This means our school enjoys working with extremely supportive parents and wonderfully enthusiastic, highly motivated students.
Children are taught in Key Stages from KS1 through to KS5 and examinations are taken in GCSE, IGCSE and A Levels using UK examination boards. The vast majority of students leaving QIS move onto higher education in leading universities all over the world but most especially the UK, USA, Canada, UAE, and Qatar itself. The vast majority of teaching staff are UK-trained, and the school prides itself on ensuring it keeps up to date with the best international practice in education and learning.
Our student body is truly international, with over 60 different nationalities represented within the current cohort. While the teaching staff are predominantly from the UK and the curriculum is taught in English, the school is adept at integrating students from a wide variety of cultural and academic backgrounds.
We hope you will enjoy browsing our website (www.qis.org) and we look forward to welcoming you to the school.
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