Class Teacher KS2

CLASS TEACHERS   

Title: Class Teacher – Key Stage 2   

Responsible to: Headteacher  Grade:

Main Scale 5 – 6 (depending on experience)  

Make your career in Cambridge.   Are you ready for your next challenge? Inspired, engaged and passionate? Join us at the University of Cambridge Primary School – the only University Training School for primary in the UK.   The University of Cambridge Primary School is seeking to appoint inspired educators to be key contributors in the development of our new school, which opened in September 2015.  We have 390 children in 2018-19 and will be a large 3 form school in 2022.  

We are seeking applications from successful Key Stage 2 teachers. You will be a confident and passionate primary teacher.  You will be able to demonstrate high expectations, a flexible and resilient attitude to challenge and commitment to providing irresistible learning opportunities for all children.  You will have the interpersonal skills to model empathy, respect, trust, courage, and gratitude within a framework in which everyone is ambitious, innovative and inclusive.  

 As the first and only primary University Training School, we aspire to develop a research informed learning community, with a spirit of enquiry and commitment to excel so that we become local, National and International contributors to the discourse about education in the 21st century.   

 We are excited about building a team.  You need to be a team player.  You need to be humble and willing to make mistakes.  You need to be reflective.  You need to have a good sense of humour.    

We welcome and are excited about growing a diverse school community.  Come and be part of something very special.  

All staff are employed by the UTS Cambridge Trust not the University of Cambridge.  For more information, talk to the Headteacher about the role please call 01223 792440.   

Please visit our website for an application form and further information:   www.universityprimaryschool.org.uk  

 All completed applications should be returned to the school either by email: enquiries@universityprimaryschool.org.uk  

Please note if you have not been contacted by Monday 5th November unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion.  

School Tour for prospective applicants: Wednesday 17th October 4.30pm – 6.00pm.   

Closing date for applications: Monday 29th October 2018 at 9am  

Shortlisting: Thursday 1st November 2018  

You will be observed teaching a lesson on the day of the interview  Interviews and lesson observations: 

Wednesday 7th November 2018  

Start date: ASAP

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We take our Prevent Duty seriously and promote British Values at all times.  Equality for all children, staff and volunteers is embedded in our ethos, thus meaning discrimination of disability, race, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity and gender identity is not tolerated. Appointment to this post will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and satisfactory references.