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KS1 Teacher / EYFS

KS1 Teacher / EYFS

Forest School

Waltham Forest

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Salary:
Competitive
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2020
Apply by:
17 February 2020

Job overview

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 the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Would you like to work in a well-established independent Preparatory School with ambitious plans for the future?

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced teacher for Year 1. We are looking for someone who can work well with a certain degree of independence, who has an innovative outlook, clear ambition and enthusiasm for pupil development and who will be fully involved in the life of the school.

Class sizes are small (16) and each Pre-Prep class has a full-time teaching assistant. The split between the sexes is exactly 50:50.  Pupils are taught in single-sex classes between the ages of 7 and 16 and in co-educational classes both in the Pre-Prep and the Sixth Form.  This ‘diamond structure’ is a striking feature of the School. 

Forest is very proud of its academic status, its reputation in a range of co-curricular activities.  All teaching staff are encouraged and expected to contribute in accordance with their strengths to the outstanding co-curricular programme and other areas of School life.

Introduction to Forest Preparatory School

Forest Preparatory School is in the middle of a very exciting development of the site, as work on expansion and building project has begun which will enable Forest’s provision to rise a new and even more innovative level. Benefitting from the structure and the economies of scale it brings, Forest Prep School is a vital component of an all-through school which teaches pupils up to the age of 18. Currently 2-form entry from Reception to Year 6, Forest is expanding to increase the number of pupils starting at Reception and will, at full size, reach 325 pupils.

The Forest Preparatory School Ethos

Forest Prep School encourages personal development and academic progress and understands the inter-relationship between the curricular, the co-curricular and the pastoral. We encourage confidence in our pupils and emphasise that they can trust the school to help them be successful.  In the end, as they progress through the School, Forest Preparatory School produces pupils who are more than ready for the next stage in their education and are well on their journey to becoming the best version of themselves.

Forest Preparatory School: Where Young People Grow

Our values: Courage, Curiosity, and Integrity. 

About Forest

Forest School is an independent school for boys and girls aged 4-18yrs established in 1834; benefiting from a tremendous location on the edge of North-East London.  London’s only diamond structure school, Forest combines both single-sex and co-educational teaching on a single site as pupils move up the school. Our 1,395 boys and girls are taught together until the age of seven, separately from seven to 16, before coming back together again in a joint sixth form.  This diamond structure offers all the academic benefits of single-sex teaching with all the social benefits of a co-educational school.  The best of both worlds.

Location

Forest is a city school set within 50 acres of grounds surrounded by Epping Forest, within easy walking distance of Snaresbrook Central line tube station and Wood Street Overground station.  

Why work at Forest? 

There are many benefits of working at Forest school as staff are our single most important asset.   Key benefits include:

• Generous CPD budget

• Comprehensive Professional Development Review system

• Opportunities to contribute to the wider community via our extensive Outreach Programme

• 18 weeks holiday and our own salary scale with salaries above those paid in the maintained sector

• Free death in service cover and subsidised AXA PPP healthcare insurance

• All teaching staff currently enrolled in the national Teachers’ Pension Scheme

• 50% fee remission (pro-rata for part time staff) for children attending Forest which is applicable Y3-Y13

• Free hot lunch (takeaway sandwich lunch also available) and refreshments throughout the day

• Free membership of the Sylvestrian Leisure Centre during school hours and heavily subsidised membership outside those hours

Don’t just take our word for it

What the Good Schools Guide say:

“Forest is a power-house with a heart.  The pupils exude purpose – modern, dynamic youngsters with an eye on what’s happening next”

Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) Key Findings (November 2017):

“The quality of the pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent…The quality of the pupils’ personal development is excellent”

For more information on our CPD, training and ethos please visit our career site.  

Please visit our website (www.forest.org.uk/prep-school) where you will find a full introduction to Forest Preparatory School.  

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis so early applications are encouraged. The School reserves the right to make an appointment at any stage.

Interviews will be held week commencing  2nd March 2020 .

Attached documents

About Forest School

Forest is an outstanding all-round School, well known for its friendly, welcoming ethos, and full of 1450 bright sparky pupils aged 4-18. We are lucky to be located in this part of North East London, allowing us to attract pupils from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds who share in being academically ambitious, but are grounded, engaging and very loyal to the School. Described by the Good Schools Guide as a ‘powerhouse with a heart’ and enjoying a reputation for strong expert teaching and learning, Forest pupils are encouraged to find success on all fronts through the breadth of the opportunities on offer to them.

We aim to develop the whole pupil through our distinct educational provision which gives equal weight to academic, co-curricular and pastoral strands of school life. To this end, Forest promotes all-round educational excellence, recognising that advancement to higher education or the world of work requires top academic grades but keen to develop a sense of service in the pupils and an awareness of their responsibilities to other people, as well as themselves. Forest is recognised as a school that is always evolving, self-evaluating and planning strategically for its future, while valuing its heritage and its location, all of which makes our community a stimulating one to work in for our 150+ teachers and 100+ non-teaching staff.

For full details about working at Forest School please visit our website www.forest.org.uk

Forest School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  All appointments require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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