Teacher - Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Mesaieed International School
Qatar
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- Salary:
- Salary plus company provided accommodation, paid holidays, annual return flight allowance, medical insurance (including dental) and performance bonus.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- August 2025
- Apply by:
- 14 January 2025
Job overview
Mesaieed International School is a thriving, happy, and vibrant institution with high aspirations for its students, staff, and the diverse community it serves.
Our modern school is at the heart of a kind and welcoming community, spread across three separate campuses: Secondary, Primary, and EYFS. We provide education for over 1,200 children aged 3–18 years, representing over 30 different nationalities. We are proud to be a Bilingual and Multilingual SMART School – an accreditation that recognises our commitment to ensuring staff understand the research, best practices, and approaches that make a real difference to the lives of bilingual and multilingual learners and their families.
Our well-resourced EYFS campus currently hosts one FS1 and three FS2 classes, with ample breakout spaces and beautifully designed learning environments.
We are seeking hard-working, inspirational teachers with excellent references, recent UK experience, and an ambition to contribute to a school on its journey to excellence. We are well on our way to achieving our goals and can offer a stimulating, challenging, and rewarding environment in which to work. Drawing on the expertise and specialist knowledge of our leadership team, we provide opportunities for you to reflect on and develop your pedagogy and refine your practice.
An absolute strength of our school is our students. They are overwhelmingly polite, respectful, considerate, and eager to learn. What they need are exceptional teachers who can unlock their potential.
The successful candidate will:
- Have an excellent understanding of the EYFS framework and child development, with a passion for pursuing best practice.
- Be able to create an environment, rooted in the principles of Communication Friendly Spaces, where children develop the characteristics of effective learning.
- Demonstrate expertise in planning for progress-centred play, effectively balancing this with focused teaching.
- Know their class well and be exceptionally skilled at planning and adapting their teaching to meet the needs of every child.
- Show innovation in developing partnerships with parents.
- Understand the importance of collaboration, particularly in relation to observation and assessment in the EYFS.
- Aspire to promote our vision and embody the QatarEnergy values in all their work.
- Have knowledge and experience of using innovative pedagogical approaches within planning, teaching, and learning.
- Engage teaching assistants as vital partners in the learning process.
- Provide language-rich learning environments to ensure rapid English language acquisition.
Salary and Benefit Package
Successful candidates will be employees of QatarEnergy and enjoy the full benefits of working for the corporation, including generous tax-free salaries, free accommodation and utilities, interest free car loan, education assistance for up to four children, medical cover, airfares, paid school holidays and access to sporting and leisure facilities.
If you would like to join our team and make a real difference to the education of our children, please apply immediately with a one-page letter of application, detailing how you meet the above criteria, a full CV, and a recent photograph.
Please ensure that you include your current headteacher/principal as one of your referees.
Disclaimer: Mesaieed International School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be expected to have undertaken relevant safeguarding checks.
About Mesaieed International School
About Mesaieed International School
We are a QatarEnergy owned international school that follows the National Curriculum for England. The school currently has 1090 pupils from the ages of 3-19. Our students all reside in Mesaieed and are the children of QatarEnergy and associate companies’ employees.
OUR VISION is for our students to be high achieving, healthy and happy individuals, well prepared to take their place as global citizens and leaders of the future.
OUR MISSION is to achieve this by inspirational teaching that places high value on learning, enjoyment and the well-being of all our students.
The academic year mirrors the English system of three terms, beginning in August. Local religious and QatarEnergy holidays are observed. The school week runs from Sunday to Thursday, the weekend being Friday and Saturday. For teachers the school day begins at 6.30am and finishes at 2.30pm, unless staff have other meeting commitments. Every Sunday staff participate in collaborative working sessions and the school day ends for staff between 3.30pm and 4.00pm.
Students
We have 30 nationalities in the school, with over 30 different languages spoken. Approximately 95% of our students speak English as a second language. They are hardworking, enthusiastic, kind and compassionate and make working at our school both a pleasure and a privilege.
Parents and Home/School Communication
We believe the relationship between school and the parents is vital. Parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their children’s learning and this takes on many forms, including open mornings, parents and teacher meetings, workshops, informal school activities, community events and volunteering throughout all year groups.
School Buildings and Facilities
The school operates across three campuses:
- A purpose built EYFS campus for children between the ages of 3 and 5
- A Primary campus for children from 5 to 11/12 years of age
- A Secondary campus for students aged 11 to 18/19
All three campuses were completed between 2008 and 2010 and as such staff and students benefit from modern facilities, including:
- Two 25m swimming pools
- Two Astro pitches
- Two 200m running tracks
- Two sports halls
- Two extensive libraries in primary and secondary
- ICT Suites
- Music rooms with designated sound proofed practice rooms in both primary and secondary
- Very spacious classrooms
- Art, Science and Technology suites in secondary
- Food technology room in primary
- Interactive White Boards in all classrooms
Houses
The House system is designed to promote school spirit, cooperation, a healthy sense of competition and a feeling of pride in belonging. It supports our work on health and well-being, fostering a sense of pride and achievement across various areas of school life. Students are placed into one of four Houses on joining school and where possible are placed in the same houses as older siblings:
- Oryx (Green)
- Pearl (Yellow)
- Falcon (Blue)
- Dhow (Red)
Sports
We are fully involved in the Qatar Private Primary (QPPSSA) and Secondary Schools Sports Associations (QUESS), participating in various sporting events including football, netball, basketball, swimming, athletics and cricket throughout the year, both in Mesaieed and in various schools in Al Wakrah and Doha. Our students love these events and are regularly commended for their politeness, attitude and good sportsmanship. We have some very talented sportsmen and sportswomen, with students often selected to participate in National and International level competitions.
Trips and Visits
The curriculum at MIS is supported by a wide range of stimulating educational experiences. During the course of the year there are opportunities for the children to be involved in excursions to a variety of places in the local area. These trips are generally linked to class work and supporting requirements for external examinations.
Extra-Curricular Activities
After-school activities provide enriching opportunities to learn something new, extend particular skills beyond the levels gained through the normal school curriculum, and to make new friends with similar interests. ECAs are held after school, over three days, in secondary and once a week in primary. All students are given an opportunity to spend some time engaged in a club, society or activity designed to broaden their experience and improve their knowledge.
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