Reception Teacher
King's College School, The Bahamas
Bahamas
- New
- Salary:
- Significant and tax-free
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 21 December 2024
Job overview
Job overview
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join an outstanding and ambitious founding team at King's College School, The Bahamas, Inspired's premium school on the island paradise of The Bahamas, which continues to grow following its opening in August 2022, and which will inaugurate its boarding house in August 2025.
We seek an exceptional Reception Teacher with a passion for education, dedication, creativity, and outstanding experience from the best schools worldwide.
This role will commence in August 2025.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creating Engaging Environments: Plan and deliver sessions that inspire and challenge all children and are in line with the school's curriculum, policies, and external assessment requirements.
- Supporting and Assessing Progress: Regularly assess children, providing targeted feedback to enable progress
- Building a Positive Learning Environment: Establish a classroom and school environment where children are invested in each other's flourishing, feel valued and supported, and are ready to take risks in their learning.
- Collaborating and Sharing Best Practices: Work closely with colleagues as an active member of our learning community, sharing best practices, collaborating with colleagues, and dedicating yourself to your own professional development to ensure the highest standard of education for our students.
- Contributing to School Life: Play an active role in the school's co-curricular programme, helping to create a well-rounded, enriching educational experience. From leading clubs to contributing to whole school initiatives, you will help shape the broader life of the school.
- Collaborating with Parents: Maintain open and constructive communication with parents, building strong partnerships that support students' progress so that each child feels like an individual, well-known and respected.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A genuine passion for education, with the ability to engage and positively impact young children.
- A proven track record of excellence in personal, academic, and professional achievements.
- In-depth expertise in and passion for their subject and the ability to inspire children and support outstanding progress.
- Expertise in assessing child progress and providing structured feedback to parents.
- Experience in providing pastoral care and promoting child wellbeing, with a strong focus on individual attention and high standards of welfare.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work both collaboratively with colleagues and independently and a track record of establishing strong, positive relationships with families.
- A commitment to their own continuous professional development.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills, able to plan and prioritise a varied workload, meet deadlines, and work well under pressure.
- PGCE, QTS, or equivalent, with excellent academic credentials and, ideally, evidence of post-graduate study.
- Energy, enthusiasm, and a positive, flexible, and resourceful approach to working in a dynamic school environment.
The School
King's College School, The Bahamas, opened in September 2022 in Nassau. It is the only school in the region that is part of a leading global group of premium schools. The King's group offers over 50 years of academic excellence combined with proven best practices from Inspired Schools across six continents.
For this 2024/25 academic year, the school welcomed over 250 students from Pre-Reception to Year 9. An additional year group will be added every year until Year 13.
The school is housed in a newly built 10-acre campus of architectural significance. It offers the highest quality educational facilities, ensuring that students benefit from a learning environment designed for how students learn in the modern day.
Facilities include light and airy classrooms, state-of-the-art science labs, a multipurpose hall, a 25-meter swimming pool, football pitches, tennis courts, padel courts, dance, drama, and art studios, an adventure park playground, and plenty of green spaces and shaded areas for students to enjoy.
King's College School, The Bahamas, joins Inspired as part of the King's Group schools in Spain, Panama, Latvia, Portugal and Egypt. King's Group schools have provided children with a rigorous and broad British and international education since 1969, focusing on developing thoughtful and knowledgeable young people. The group's success comes from recruiting teachers with the skills and experience to turn the curriculum into dynamic lessons that inspire students. The King's Group schools' belief that child-centred, exploratory learning teaches students to think, question and explore new ideas complements Inspired's forward-thinking learning approach.
Why join us?
Inspired is a high-growth organisation with over 13,000 employees and offers you the unique opportunity to be part of a founding team, collaborate with passionate educators, expand your skills, and grow in a role that inspires you in a stunning location.
You'll be joining other dedicated professionals with unrivalled access to extensive guidance, support and growth opportunities – and, most importantly, providing your students with the very best start in life. In addition, you will benefit from:
- The unique opportunity to impact education within The Bahamas and within Inspired as part of the founding team of one of the group's leading schools.
- Industry-leading professional development.
- Being part of Inspired's award-winning team, which includes globally renowned educators and specialists.
- Exceptional internal career mobility within King's College School, The Bahamas, and Inspired's broader family of premium schools.
- Working within state-of-the-art facilities designed by some of the leading educationalists and architects in the world.
- A warm and friendly culture.
- Competitive tax-free salary and benefits.
- Relocation support.
- Free school places for children.
Safeguarding
Any successful applications will be required to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS check and completing any relevant safeguarding assessments.
Equal Opportunities
Inspired Education is an equal opportunities employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Apply now
To apply, please click here: https://jobs.inspirededu.com/job-invite/4519/
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About King's College School, The Bahamas
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Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with a portfolio of 119 premium private schools spanning 6 continents which utilise proven educational practices from every corner of the globe, ensuring over 85,000 students receive a world-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.
In 27 countries, Inspired schools are individually developed and anchored in the vibrant cultures of their respective locations. They collectively form an international family of schools that nurtures each student's academic and personal development in a progressive, dynamic, and innovative learning environment.
By joining our award-winning team of over 13,000 employees, you can work in state-of-the-art facilities alongside industry-renowned educators and leaders in some of the world's most desirable locations. We invest heavily in our team members who enjoy industry-leading professional development, exceptional career opportunities, and mobility across our group.
Please visit our careers site for further information and to see our latest opportunities - https://careers.inspirededu.com/
About Inspired
Inspired students benefit from the unique global connectivity of premium schools that are anchored in their local communities.
The individuality of every student is unlocked through a holistic curriculum focused on the three pillars - Academics, Sport and Performing Arts, to ensure every student achieves their full potential.
Through this global approach, we aim to inspire and prepare students to be global citizens, ready to seize their exciting futures and truly flourish with the confidence and attitude needed to thrive in their ever-changing world.
Inspired schools are among the highest performing in the world, most are non-selective and are proud to add considerable value to every student. These Schools regularly achieve highly in league table rankings across the world.
Most importantly, Inspired students not only attain outstanding academic results but also graduate to some of the best universities and careers in the world.
The exciting combination of Inspired’s global standings and the King’s College group’s
50+ year history of academic excellence enables students to consistently graduate with exceptional results, with over 90% going on to their first-choice university.
The Inspired learning approach
Our approach is defined by supportive academic excellence and the exploration of life skills to develop students’ self-confidence and self-assurance.
We do this by delivering a focus on the individual and offering a broad curriculum based on the three pillars. Academics are at the centre of our approach but are also complemented equally by Performing Arts and Sport. This rich curriculum ensures that every student can discover their passions and develop their skills. Students are encouraged and supported to excel across all areas, even those they find more difficult.
Our Three Pillar Approach
1. Academics
Central to all our schools, our core of academia teaches our students critical and lateral thinking to inform the understanding and application of a wide variety of disciplines. At King’s College School, we follow the British Curriculum to Year 11 and then the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to Year 13.
2. Sport
Inspired’s sporting pillar stands for health, wellbeing, fun, motivation, self-discipline,
and self-esteem. Whether it’s about involving students in team sports or introducing them to individual pursuits, we aim to provide an athletics programme to suit every student. King’s College School students can get involved in a broad range of sporting pursuits including football, basketball, cricket, swimming, and tennis.
While some students in each school go on to achieve national and international honours, all students benefit from the fitness, enjoyment, and life-long interest that sport can spark. The physical exercise involved also contributes to the mental alertness necessary for successful study.
3. Performing Arts
The arts help to instil confidence and self assurance within our students to nurture and
develop their interests for life. This confidence is derived from performance, the appreciation of the arts as fundamental to the human experience, and a creative approach to all that our students do.
From drama lessons and public speaking to instrumental music lessons and visual arts, King’s College School students get to experience it all as part of the core curriculum.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas is a coral-based archipelago consisting of around 700 islands and islets, and more than 2,000 cays (coral reefs) spread over 100,000 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean.
Since its independence in 1973, The Bahamas has become one of the richest countries in the Americas due to its booming tourism and finance industries.
The country is blessed with immense natural beauty and a wonderful tropical climate, and temperatures rarely drop below 21 degrees Celsius. The Bahamas is politically stable, and the economy has a very competitive tax regime.
King’s College School, The Bahamas is based on the Western Road in Nassau, New Providence. This is the most populous island in The Bahamas containing more than 70% of the total population. Nassau is the island’s capital – it’s the centre of administration, commerce, education, law, and media.
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