Year 2 Class Teacher
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Hammersmith and Fulham
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive, commensurate with skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- January 2025 (or earlier if possible)
- Apply by:
- 8 September 2024
Job overview
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School is a successful IAPS preparatory school in West London providing education of the highest quality for 420 boys and girls aged from 4 to 11 years.
This is an exciting opportunity for a well-qualified and enthusiastic teacher to join our happy, friendly and forward-thinking school that is fully committed to striving for the best in our pupils. We are looking for someone with a keen awareness of the pastoral needs of children and who is able to instil our values of kindness, resilience, courage, curiosity and teamwork to join our Lower School (Key Stage One) team.
The successful applicant will have the subject knowledge and confidence to teach engaging and challenging lessons so that their pupils make the greatest possible progress. This contract is offered initially on a maternity cover basis with the possibility of becoming a permanent contract for the right candidate.
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School was last inspected by ISI in November 2021 and received the grade of ‘excellent’ in all categories, as well as meeting all of the areas of regulatory compliance.
The salary will be commensurate with the skills and experience of the successful candidate. RPPS operates its own salary scale, which is above the National Pay Scale for teachers in Inner London.
An application form, job description and person specification can be found on our website: https://www.rpps.co.uk/about-us/join-our-team. Please send completed application forms to Mrs Charlie Hayden, Head’s PA: careers@rpps.co.uk.
Closing date: 12.00 pm on Sunday 8th September 2024.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date, so early applications are recommended.
All applications will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of gender, race, religious belief, marital status or disability. Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applications will be subject to checks with past employers and an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. Applicants who have lived outside of the UK in the past 5 years will be required to provide a Police Check from their country of residence. Our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies can be found on our website.
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About Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School is a lively, co-educational and inclusive independent school for children from 4 to 11 years old. There is a palpable sense of community at RPPS, and visitors often comment on the warm and happy atmosphere, and the family feel that they notice around the school. Our holistic approach to education means that we place great importance upon the intellectual, physical, social and spiritual development of each child, and our talented and dedicated teaching team nurtures and inspires the children so that they flourish academically and emotionally.
We encourage our children to develop a ‘growth mindset’ approach towards their learning so that they appreciate the value of practice, hard work and responding to feedback from their teachers and peers. Our pupils are encouraged to take risks, to embrace challenging activities and to view any mistakes that they make along the way as valuable opportunities for further learning, rather than something to be afraid of.
When our pupils emerge at the end of their education and enter the world of work, it will be a very different environment to the one which exists today. We provide opportunities for our children to communicate and collaborate, to think creatively, to persevere with a challenging activity and to be resilient when things don’t go to plan. We encourage our pupils to be adaptable so that they can apply their learning to new activities and questions. We believe that these qualities of communication, collaboration, creativity, perseverance, resilience and adaptability will enable each child to make a valuable contribution to the workplace of the future.
Our children are well prepared for the 11+ examinations in Year Six and we work closely with parents to select the right school for each child.
All pupils are equipped with the essential qualities of kindness and compassion so that, when each child leaves, he or she is skilled and confident to make the most of all the opportunities on offer.
We form strong and trusting partnerships with our parents. We operate an ‘Open Door Policy', where parents’ comments, views, contributions and suggestions are valued. We also welcome parents’ direct support with activities such as hearing children read, accompanying day visits and at special events throughout the year.
This website will give you a glimpse of life at RPPS. Please do explore it thoroughly and I hope you will be inspired to come along to one of our Open Mornings to see for yourself what makes our school such a special place.
I very much look forward to meeting you and your children at RPPS in the near future.
Mr Carl Howes
Headmaster
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