Primary School Cohort Leader

For August 2025

Key Responsibilities

Cultivate a Respectful and Affirming Learning Environment within the Cohort

· Create and maintain a positive, supportive and safe learning environment within the cohort

· Model positive relationships (teacher-teacher, teacher-student, student-student, teacher-families) that demonstrate care, respect safety and honour diversity

· Take proactive measures to co-create a sense of belonging within the cohort; involving team members, students and families

· Adopt a clear and competent approach to positive conflict resolution through the implementation of restorative practices so to retain trust, respect and balance within the cohort

Support Positive Student Behaviour within and beyond the Cohort

· Ensure that students play an active role within the cohort in establishing and maintaining expectations; enabling their input into opportunities for reflection and development

· Proactively seek to strengthen strategies within the cohort that enable students to monitor their own behaviour, to be mindful of how their choices impact on others and to offer encouragement and support of one-another

· Model exemplar classroom management strategies through the application of restorative practices and positive behavioural interventions and supports (PBIS); offering guidance to team members as they develop the mindset and actions to reflect these practices

· Provide feedback and coaching to staff within the cohort to strengthen the school wide approaches to positive student behaviour

Demonstrate Knowledge and Value of Students within the Cohort

· Be knowledgeable about each of the students within the cohort; how they learn and what support they need to enable academic and personal success

· Proactively support the cohort to design interdisciplinary learning opportunities designed to recognise and appreciate student diversity, culture and unique identities

· Build collective responsibility within the cohort for students’ holistic care and learning progress; integrating students’ cognitive, social, emotional and character development

· Cultivate a sense of belonging for team members and student's; fostering collective identify whilst honouring individual identities

· Take responsibility for welcoming, monitoring and assisting students and their families who join the school

· Actively promote and support the school’s student leadership processes and expanding initiatives

Respond Flexibly to Student Needs within the Cohort

· Respond in a timely manner to coordinate needed interventions which enable expected learning progression of each student within the cohort via the allocation of Teaching and Learning Assistants support

· Supporting the work of the Learning Development/Inclusion team as they coordinate resource allocation to support elevated interventions beyond the core teaching provision

· Liaise with the Head of Learning Development/Inclusion and the Director of Upper and/or Lower Primary in their support of individual students’ welfare matters and staff’s classroom behaviour approaches

Foster Knowledge of Interdisciplinary Relationships and Skills within the Cohort

· Provide ongoing guidance and support to teachers within the cohort as they forge interdisciplinary connections

· Model how learning can be scaffolded to build essential understandings, concepts and skills that across disciplines and support student learning in multiple contexts; offering feedback and support to team members

· Model how to enhance active student engagement with learning, offering feedback and support to team members

Engage with Families and the Broader Community; creating Visibility of Student Learning within and beyond the Cohort

· Support teachers to connect professionally with student’s out-of-school learning and life to strengthen knowledge of students and strengthen professional partnerships within the community

· Contribute to the organisation of and hosting of assemblies and across school celebrations

· Take responsibility for planning and hosting cohort learning walks, across curriculum learning culminations and an annual cohort performance

· Demonstrate initiative and creativity to support making visible student learning; process of learning in addition to the sharing exemplar and high-quality learning samples

· Model the use of documentation to capture and enable student’s thinking and learning processes to be shared within the school community

· Assist with the facilitation of events such as photo days, House days, sports days and the like

· Share success of student learning through support of Year Book submissions, WeChat articles, Parent Newsletters and the use of emerging community and family messaging tools

Organize Spaces for Learning within the Cohort

· Role model exemplar approaches to the establishment of a physical classroom environment which is organised, celebrates students’ learning, promotes student curiosity and aide’s student agency for learning

· Ensure cohort display boards and surrounding areas are maintained and regularly updated

· Implement initiatives to strength student agency and voice within the cohort and pride in the physical learning environment

· Lead on ensuring that learning spaces are maintained so to be safe and accessible; offering guidance in relation to modifications where necessary to accommodate the needs of students and staff

· Set and uphold standards with staff and student's so that the learning spaces are thoughtfully designed and maintained to facilitate flexible learning

· Engage student's in the design and adjustment of learning spaces so that they demonstrate ownership, thoughtful participation and respectful interaction

· Proactively plan for the provision and effective use of student and teacher stationery needs

Develop Self and Others

· Create opportunities for others in the cohort team to adopt responsibilities to further grow their talents and professional interests

· Sustain a coaching and mentoring culture in support of the resolution of challenges and ongoing development of team members within the cohort

· Proactively support the efforts of the Directors of Upper/Lower Primary and other cohort leaders

· Liaise proactively with Head of Department to strengthen purposeful and engaging learning for students

· Seek opportunity for own professional growth; sharing back learning to the broader school community

· Provide regular forward focused feedback to staff within the cohort on their overall professional performance

· Line manage the cohort Teaching and Learning Assistants, ensuring a balanced approach to professional requirements and ongoing development of their professional abilities

· Line manage other members of the team, as and when required to do so

· Mentor and support new teachers within a cohort ensuring they are familiar with the school’s policies, processes, expectations and daily routines

· Feed into the school’s probation and other staff performance and development mechanisms as required

· Led cohort professional learning and meeting times, adopting agile and adaptive leadership

Job Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree or above

2. Major in education or related ones

3. International and bilingual school experience

4. Minimum of five years teaching experience

5. Previous experience in leading a school team

6. Teaching qualification

7. Excellent written and spoken English