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Teaching & Learning Director - Year Group within Lower Key Stage 2

Teaching & Learning Director - Year Group within Lower Key Stage 2

Portway Primary School

Newham

Salary:
MPS/UPS + TLR1a (Inner London)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
January 2019 or sooner
Apply by:
2 November 2018

Job overview

LEARNING FOR ALL!

We are seeking to appoint highly motivated Lower KS2 Teaching & Learning Director and class teacher to join our dynamic staff team.  This role would suit an experienced middle leader or someone aspiring to be an Assistant Headteacher in the near future. Experience on leading a year group within lower KS2 would be desirable.

We can offer you:

  • Quality first professional development;
  • Curious children, who love learning;
  • A supportive, forward thinking, and dedicated team of colleagues;
  • An energetic and sociable environment to work and play!

We welcome applications from experienced leaders who will:

  • Model and disseminate high quality teaching to secure pupil outcomes;
  • Value professional development and be enthusiastic about taking risks;
  • Implement creative approaches to learning and to inspire others;
  • Be resilient, with a desire to progress within a school leadership role.

Visits to the school are essential.

To arrange a visit please contact a member of the Leadership Team on 020 8472 7142, or email us at hr@portway.newham.sch.uk.

Leadership Team:
Jacqui Waine – Head teacher
Scott Chudley - Deputy Head teacher

Further information about our school can be found on our website - http://portway.leadinglearningtrust.org

Closing Date: 2 November 2018
Interviews: Week commencing 5 November 2018 

Portway Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all our staff to share this commitment. All staff are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check as well as qualifications and reference checks. A disqualification declaration questionnaire maybe required for this post.

NPW, managing recruitment on behalf of Newham Schools

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About Portway Primary School

Portway Primary School is an Outstanding primary school in Plaistow, Newham, which provides an exceptional and enriching education for children from 2 to 11 years.  We believe that our core purpose as a school is not only to help our children succeed academically, but also to teach them about the wider world and their role in the future.  We want children to learn today the knowledge and skills required to be able to transform tomorrow, and so at Portway, we have one simple statement that encapsulates our vision: Learning today, transforming tomorrow.

Our school is part of Newham Community Learning, which exists in order to provide an excellent education for all young people in our community.  We are the only Trust to offer all-through provision from ages 2 - 16 within a single family of schools in Newham. Across our two primary and four secondary schools, all located in the west of the borough, we educate over 5,400 local children and young people, and employ a team of  close to 700 members of staff, the vast majority of whom live locally.

To view opportunities at all our schools, please see our Trust page on TES.

Train with us - we are delighted to partner with Teach First to deliver our School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme.  Teach First is a national charity that develops and supports teachers and leaders who are determined to make a difference where it is needed the most. As a training partner, we will be working with Teach First to deliver this one year teacher training programme, which enables participants to train and develop skills in the classroom.  It is ideal for people who are eager to learn on the job and make a difference in their community from day one.  Our Newham Community Learning SCITT Booklet has further information; please email traintoteach@ncltrust.net to find out more.  Please note that this programme is currently aimed at secondary teaching staff.

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Applications closed