Year 1 Teacher
Newland House School
Richmond upon Thames
- Expired
- Salary:
- School's own scale
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2019
Job overview
The school is seeking a professional and motivated teacher who will share the responsibility for the planning and delivery of the curriculum for the Year 1 class with another part-time teacher. Experience of KS1 is preferred and candidates should be familiar with the reporting and profiling aspect of the curriculum. They will be confident and proficient in planning and teaching lessons appropriate to the needs of the pupils, in consultation with parallel teachers. In addition, they will be required to set and maintain high educational and moral standards, undertake other appropriate duties as may be required, participate in and support the school in all its many and varied activities.
As a teacher at Newland House School, you will support the school’s aim in ensuring that we provide a curriculum that is broad and balanced, covering the academic, artistic and physical elements that are crucial for the development of the whole child. We set high standards of learning for all the children in a caring and supportive environment and you will help to promote our ethos in encouraging enquiring minds and building pupil’s strengths, interests and experiences.
The teacher will work as a member of a team at our Pre-Prep School, along with other form teachers and teaching assistants and will report to the Deputy Head (Pre-Prep). We pride ourselves in fostering excellent home/school relationships with parents and candidates will be expected to have strong communication skills.
The post merits a salary commensurate with the role and the successful applicant's relevant experience.
Newland House School is a successful, flourishing co-educational independent day school for children from 4 to 13 years, based in Twickenham in South West London.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview and to be observed teaching a lesson in the week commencing Monday, 29 April 2019.
Newland House School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About Newland House School
Newland House is a very special school. You only have to walk through the front door to experience its wonderfully friendly atmosphere and the great sense of purpose that symbolises so much of what is done here. Set in three buildings, it boasts a newly established Nursery, a Pre-Prep in a new, stylish and ergonomic building and a Prep which mixes the modern and traditional.
It is proud of its achievements, not only because children regularly win scholarships to some of the best independent senior schools in the country, but because their awards are not just academic but are for music, sport, art and all round ability too.
The school’s strength lies in the breadth of education it provides. Every child has the ability to succeed. Teachers find the areas in which they show promise and nurture them.
The sense of family and community and the mutual support between teachers and pupils is an especially strong feature of the school. Newland House School wants its children to be happy and self –confident, as well as having the desire to care for and respect others too.
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