Class Teacher KS1/KS2
St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School
Tower Hamlets
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 6 June 2017
Job overview
Diocese of Westminster
NQTs are welcome to apply
Roll: 434 Group 3
We are looking for teachers with real ‘Oomph’! In our school, if you have a passion for a particular area then you can teach it! Our learning is about big ‘Wow-based outcomes’, some of these are great successes and some crash and burn... that doesn’t matter - the children (and you) will still learn.
Teachers at St Elizabeth aren’t afraid to set up Restaurant evenings, organize sleepovers, open Art Galleries, publish Magazines and Poetry Anthologies, put on fashion shows, create their own board games, set up their own French Cafe, create sustainable African Gardens, even an enterprise business fair filled with entrepreneurial skills.
We focus on:
- Creativity, Learning life skills, high expectations, Partnership
- Entrepreneurial Skills, Presentation Skills, Negotiation, Problem Solving
So this is what we are looking for:
- Someone that has a passion for learning
- To us, this is someone that reflects when the children haven’t learnt something.
- What could have I done differently?
- Why were they off their game today?
- Do they need encouragement today or do they need reminding about expectations?
- Someone who is genuine
Let’s face it we don’t do this job for the fantastic pay or the prestige. We do it because we like children and we genuinely feel that we can make a difference. Our job actually matters! So in our school if you have a passion for something you WILL be able to use that to teach the children. If you want to set up a Radio Station, create an Orchestra, open an Art Gallery, have Restaurant evenings, or set up your own business we will encourage Creativity at St Elizabeth Primary School.
What we can offer you:
- To work in a great school with many fantastic teachers
- The opportunity to actually teach in the field that you are passionate about
- Great support and training
- Fantastic behaviour in our school; you get to teach and you don’t need advanced skills in peacekeeping!
- You get to work in partnership with our other schools and learn from a range of teachers in our school.
A visit to our school is really important. Please arrange a visit by contacting the school office.
A copy of the Job Description, our Safeguarding Policy, and an Application Form can be obtained by visiting the school, our school website or emailing us at the above email address.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and a receipt of satisfactory references.
Closing date: Wednesday 7 June 2017 at 12.00 noon Shortlisting: Friday 9 June 2017
Interviews will take place week commencing 12 June 2017
St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School
Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9JY
T: 020 8980 3964 F: 020 8983 3377
email: school@st-elizabeth.towerhamlets.sch.uk
website: www.stelizabeth.co.uk
Headteacher : Ms A John
Deputy Head : Mrs T Jennings
School Business Manager : Mrs P Augustin
About St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School
- St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School
- Bonner Road, Bethnal Green
- London
- E2 9JY
- United Kingdom
School Values
As a Catholic school with a strong Christian ethos we actively support and promote a value-based education. By living out our 4Rs – Relationships, Resilience, Responsibility and Respect, we encourage the whole school community to:
- Think about and reflect upon positive Christian, British and Universal values
- Experience how living out these values impacts on themselves and others, in school, in the wider community and in the world
- Instil a sense of belonging to the school, the local community, the country they live in and the wider global community
- Inspire individuals to choose their own positive personal social, moral and spiritual values
- Promote an inclusive school ethos and a learning climate that will raise aspirations and achievement
- Raise self-esteem and encourage children to take more responsibility for their own behaviour and learning
Aims
We aim to be a community working with church and home, which:-
- grows spiritually, morally and socially
- creates a safe and friendly environment
- values and respects everyone
- provides a broad and balanced curriculum
- has high expectations
- is accessible to all
- celebrates the richness of the multi-cultural community
- enjoys learning
- has high self-esteem
School Organisation
St. Elizabeth School is attractively sited in Bonner Road, close to Victoria Park.
It is a two-form entry school with a Nursery attached. The Nursery currently offers a mixture of part time and full time places and the school is looking to expand on its fulltime provision.
There are 2 Reception Classes [ages 4 to 5], 4 Key Stage 1 classes [ages 5 to 7] and 8 Key Stage 2 Classes [ages 7 to 11]. All classes are mixed ability with a gender balance, as far as possible. The maximum number of children per class is 30 and the standard number per year group is 60.
The Governing Body
The Governing Body has an entitlement to 14 members, as follows:-
- 8 Foundation Governors appointed by the Bishop
- 1 LEA Governors appointed by Tower Hamlets
- 3 Parent Governors elected by the parents of the school
- 2 staff governors [inc. Headteacher]
Duties of the Governors:
These are:-
- helping to establish [with the Head Teacher] the aims and policies of the school and how the standards of education can be improved.
- deciding the conduct of the school, how in general terms it should be run.
- helping to draw up [with the head and staff] the School Improvement Plan.
- helping to decide how to spend the school’s budget.
- making sure that the National Curriculum and Religious Education are taught.
- selecting the Headteacher.
- appointing staff.
- acting as a link between the local community and the school
- ensuring the school has a self-evaluation form in place
- drawing up the action plan after an OFSTED inspection and monitoring how the plan is put into progress.
Staff Structure
- Head Teacher, Deputy Head Teacher, Assistant Head Teacher, School Business Manager
- 14 class teachers
- 1 nursery teacher
- 55 Support Staff
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