EYFS/Foundation Stage Teacher
Two Boats School
Ascension Island
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 18th August 2016
- Apply by:
- 14 March 2016
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work on the unique Island of Ascension a small volcanic island situated in the sub-tropical South Atlantic, with a warm climate, excellent beaches and unique environmental biodiversity. The Island has a population of approximately 800 living in 4 settlements. Two Boats School is a small school with around 100 pupils ranging from pre-school to 16. Pupils follow a curriculum modelled on the National Curriculum for England and take English National Curriculum tests at 7 and 11 followed by IGCSEs at 16. The majority of our pupils are St. Helenian British with significant minorities from mixed and UK backgrounds. The school has a committed and supportive staff team from the UK and St. Helena.
Salary and benefits worth up to £40K. Start Date: 18 August 2016
The role:
The Ascension Island Government is looking for an Early Years teacher who is able to offer successful experience and expertise in learning and teaching in the Early Years. The School’s Early Years phase covers children in Nursery and Reception year groups. Applicants will need to have a strong knowledge and understanding of the Foundation Stage curriculum and have the personal and professional qualities to work effectively as part of a small primary school team. The successful candidates should be creative and committed to the children’s learning journey.
The successful candidate will be accountable to the Senior Teacher Primary Sector for:
- Running the Foundation Stage unit using the most up-to-date early years practices
- Accurately monitoring and tracking the development of the foundation stage students
- Managing and supporting the development of the foundation stage Teaching Assistant
- Liaising with the parents of new students joining the school and making home visits before students enter the nursery.
The package:
We are offering an initial two year accompanied contract with a competitive salary of up to £20,000 (taxable in Ascension Island), together with the following benefits for the applicant and dependant accompanying family, valued at up to £20,000:
- Accompanied or single food allowance (£5,820.00 or £2,911.00 respectively)
- Relocation expenses including shipment of car and household goods
- One mid-contract return air fare to the country of recruitment/residence for the family.
- Rent free housing, with electricity and water allowances.
- Free schooling for dependent children up to 16.
- Free medical care, dental care and optician services.
- A tax-free gratuity on satisfactory contract completion.
To obtain an application form and information package please contact the Director of Human Resources, Alan Nicholls, by email: alan.nicholls@ascension.gov.ac. Applications should be sent to this email address or by fax to +00(247) 66152.
Closing date for applications is 5pm 14 March 2016.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted and called for interview. Interviews will be held via Skype later in March or early in April. Further information about Two Boats School may be obtained at http://www.ascension-island.gov.ac/government/school. If you need further information about the post please contact the Consultant Headteacher Keith Sedgwick by email: keith.sedgwick@tbschool.edu.ac
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an enhanced DBS Disclosure (UK) or national equivalent
About Two Boats School
- Two Boats School
- Two Boats Village
- Ascension Island
- ASCN 1ZZ
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
At Two Boats School, we make excellent provision for the educational needs of all children aged 3-16 on Ascension Island. Our class sizes and exam success would be the envy of most schools around the world.
The report of our inspection carried out in November 2014 by School Inspection Service, one of the contractors licensed to conduct inspections under the Ofsted-accredited regime for British Schools Overseas found the school’s provision to be good with many excellent features. Specifically:?
- Two Boats School is highly successful in meeting its aims
- It provides a good education for its pupils, making use of its stimulating location
- Commitment by staff to the interests and education of the pupils is paramount
- Pupils’ behaviour is excellent
- No teaching is less than good and a third of that observed was outstanding
- The curriculum is good, and is broad and balanced
- Pupils make good progress
- Social and moral development of the pupils is excellent and their cultural and spiritual development is good
- The school puts great emphasis on communication with parents
- The school is very well led and managed
- The school is well resourced
- The school is successful in achieving high standards of performance
- Strong emphasis is placed on safeguarding
- Attention to the welfare, health and safety of pupils is excellent.
Pupils follow a curriculum modelled on the National Curriculum for England and take English National Curriculum tests at age seven and eleven followed by IGCSEs at age sixteen. 71% of pupils leaving in 2014 achieved 5 or more A*-C grades including English and Maths, up from 56% in 2013 and 60% in 2012. The other two pupils in the 2014 cohort achieved a range of A-G passes despite their profound special educational needs. These were Two Boats School’s best results ever, and the best results in the South Atlantic by some distance, with very pleasing results at other key stages.
Although this is a state school maintained by the Ascension Island Government, it has many features of a British International School and membership of COBIS. The school enjoys strong support from the island community and a parent group with the high expectations indicated by their decision to move here to work with their families. Ascension has no permanent population so the majority of our pupils are St. Helenian British with significant minorities from mixed and UK backgrounds. We have a committed and supportive staff team from the UK and St. Helena.
In the most positive way possible, this job is like no other, and this school is like no other. The pupils are amongst the most well-behaved, caring, assured and engaged that you are likely to meet anywhere. Whether as prospective pupil, parent, member of staff or interested observer, I commend the work of Two Boats School to you.
Headteacher
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