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Primary Teacher

The British American Pre-School and Bilingual European School (BAPS-BES)

Italy

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2024
Apply by:
19 March 2024

Job overview

We are looking for an energetic, curious and collaborative Primary School Teacher for our bilingual Italian-English school. The person we are looking for has to be native level english speaker. 

Our students are incredible! They are strongly motivated, action orientated and very enthusiastic. We are confident that you will enjoy the lively, rich bilingual conversations our students confidently engage in and the learning journeys they will take you on.

Bilingual European School is an IB World School, based in Milan. In addition to innovative grounds designed by the renowned architect, Rosan Bosch, our school is part of Avanguardie Educative, (Italy’s Association of innovative schools) and is also a Harvard Project Zero school.

Successful candidates are able to inspire and motivate our learners and are:

- creative and passionate about teaching and learning;

- interested in contributing and working towards the future development of the school;

- flexible, positive and open-minded;

- willing to share ideas and work closely with our team of dedicated, enthusiastic professionals;

- keen to live and work in Italy.


Candidates should be well-qualified, committed to high standards, interested in using innovative approaches to learning and enthusiastic about promoting international understanding.

Moher tongue level of English required for this role.


BES is committed to providing equal opportunities to all pupils, staff, applicants, and other community members in a safe, happy environment where all can succeed and where cultural diversity is celebrated. We ensure that there is no discrimination of any kind in our employment practices.

Offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references, criminal background checks and immigration authorization if applicable.

Successful applicants will be selected for interview via video call. We will review applications as we receive them

Safeguarding Statement:

British American Pre-School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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About The British American Pre-School and Bilingual European School (BAPS-BES)

The British American Pre-School and the Bilingual European School prepare children aged 2 to 14 to be the travelers of the world, providing an outstanding educational journey that successfully lays the groundwork to meet the challenges of tomorrow, developing their natural talents both in English and Italian.

BAPS, founded in 1987, offers a full immersion English programme that combines the inquiry-based and child-centered educational philosophy with the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum (for the first three age groups) and Key Stage One (for Reception children). BAPS full immersion English approach centred on the “play based learning” and the “learning by doing” provides children with the necessary knowledge and skills for a smooth transition to the BES bilingual programme.

BES, founded in 1999, integrates the Italian Ministerial programme with the Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate, offering bilingual education of excellence with a global perspective. At BES every student is a unique and special individual engaged in hands-on, minds-on learning activities in line with the constructivist approach.

The stimulating learning landscapes, designed by the internationally renowned architect Rosan Bosch, give students the opportunity to foster a life-long love of learning. The school hosts a permanent Bruno Munari® art laboratory and an accredited LEGO® Education Innovation Studio. BES is also recognised by Avanguardie Educative as a centre of excellence for educational innovation and in collaboration with Project Zero is committed to building the learning models of the future.

BAPS and BES proudly joined Globeducate in 2021, combining the group’s forward-looking project with the school’s unique model of cognitive integrated bilingualism, recognized by an international team of researchers from the Goethe University Frankfurt as a role model for bilingualism in Europe and all over the world.

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