Class Teacher

The Role

Are you looking for the opportunity to make a real difference to children’s lives? Are you ambitious, motivated, and hard-working? Do you have the drive, ideas, and high expectations to help create a truly transformational school? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, research driven, and teaching focused environment? If so, we are currently recruiting Class Teachers for Longshaw Primary Academy.

Our belief is that innovative, quality teaching lies at the heart of everything we do. We never ask our staff to do anything that does not have a positive impact on pupil outcomes, nor anything we wouldn’t do ourselves. We are a hard working team, where staff at all levels are encouraged to develop themselves and be the best they can be, in a supportive environment that is focused on teacher CPD.

When you join us, you can be confident that you will receive the opportunities, guidance and materials you need to be the very best teacher you can be.

By working within the United Learning Trust at Longshaw Primary Academy you can expect the following in return:

A welcoming school community with friendly and enthusiastic children and staff

A Competitive Salary

Plenty of opportunities for professional development, within our school and our Trust. We offer NPQML and NPQSL, as well as opportunities for coaching and mentoring in school and within our network of schools.

Opportunities to develop your leadership skills by working alongside experienced leaders and subject leader advisers.

Opportunities to work with other colleagues within our local cluster and across the Trust to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships

An individual CPD pathway, to develop practice, and help you reach the next stage in your career.

A team dedicated to innovative teaching methods and implementing current research.

At least 3 additional PPA days per year dedicated to planning.

Employee Benefits: Employee Assistance Programme, Pension Scheme, Free access to Perkbox - featuring a range of perks including free access to online wellness and workout classes, a free monthly coffee and film download and money off your weekly shop, high street purchases and meals out.

An opportunity to work in a charitable organisation that is focused on improving the lives of disadvantaged children; the core value of the Trust is “The best in everyone”

Longshaw is a two form Primary Academy located in Chingford – close to the North Circular and a short walking distance from Chingford Rail Station (Overground to London Liverpool Street).

Further information about our school can be found on our website and visits to our school are warmly welcomed – You can book a visit by emailing the school office office@longshawprimaryacademy.org.uk or calling the school on 0208 529 5693

Longshaw is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants. CVs will not be considered. 

The right candidate will have:

• Drive, determination and a passion for excellent teaching

• The ability to plan and teach exciting sequences of lessons

• A positive outlook and a resilient nature

• A commitment to developing their own, and others, teaching practice as part of a team

• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment that values each other

United Learning

Longshaw Primary Academy joined United Learning in 2019, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole.  We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.