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KS2 Class Teacher Fixed Term

KS2 Class Teacher Fixed Term

Shafton Primary Academy

Barnsley

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Salary:
MPR/UPR
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
January 2019
Apply by:
23 November 2018

Job overview

Class Teacher Fixed Term January 2019 – July 2019

MPR/UPR 

Here is an exciting opportunity to join our Good school with Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Early Years

Are you highly motivated and determined to make a real difference to the lives of children? Would you like to join our happy team who have had outstanding judgements at our OFSTED? Are you committed to raising standards with a drive for outstanding pupil attainment and progress? Are you creative, fun-loving and experimental, ready to engage children across the entire curriculum? If you have just thought ‘yes that’s me’, you could be the person we’re looking for to join our fabulous team.     

Shafton Primary Academy is sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) and was judged to be a Good school by OFSTED in 2015. We provide a happy, caring community where everyone is encouraged and supported to achieve their goals. Our children are keen to learn, are well behaved and want to achieve their best.                                                   

We can offer you: 

  • A warm, happy school where we value everyone and have a philosophy of kindness and support for each other 
  • Access to CPD to enable you to grow and development in your role
  • Excellent career prospects across the network, with a culture of looking to promote from within
  • A brand new leadership team who welcome fresh ideas, traditional values and a sense of fun
  • Well supported teachers who are committed to driving high standards
  • Teachers' Pension 
  • Something we take very seriously is staff WELLBEING. That’s why we have partnered up with BHSF to provide support and employee benefits, such as a health cash plan scheme to support healthcare, discounted gym membership and a employee assistance programme
  • The opportunity to use Google Suite, which allows you to do your best work, all in one suite

AET believes that each and every child is inspired to choose a remarkable life.  Our mission is to gather and motivate inspirational people committed to delivering an excellent education that launches children into remarkable lives.  

Our values are:

  • Be unusually brave
  • Discover what’s possible
  • Push the limits
  • Be big-hearted

Visits are warmly welcomed, please contact Angie or Jordan in the school office on 01226 710386.

This position is required for January 2019, and interviews will be held week commencing Monday 26 November 2018.

Closing date: Friday 23 November 2018

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.  All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

In line with our safeguarding practices we are unable to accept CV’s.  Find your remarkable with AET, apply today.

Each of the academies within the AET is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts.

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Further details can be found on our careers page.

AET are currently recruiting for School Direct Placements, please visit our website http://aetnationalteachingschoolalliance.org/ for further details.

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About Shafton Primary Academy

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Welcome to Shafton Primary Academy and thank you for your interest in our school. Shafton village is a small rural community easily reached from Wakefield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield.

Here at Shafton, we are a proud member of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) and have just been judged as a good school with outstanding leadership and outstanding Early Years.

Our very creative staff have a real love of teaching and we are looking for a future member of our team who can develop that sense of awe and wonder in children. The children at our school are happy, confident, fun-loving and energetic. They are passionate about their learning, be it in the traditional classroom or through drama, music, dance and painting. We are looking for someone who can embrace these aspects of the curriculum as well as literacy and numeracy.

Leadership at our school is forward thinking - and the well-being and work-life balance of our teachers is very important. We give autonomy to teachers and will not dictate planning, marking or teaching styles. We want you to give us your best and our non-negotiables are outstanding attainment and progress for every child, coupled with kindness and warm-heartedness, not what colour pen you use to mark books!

Our school has been recently refurbished and is a modern, bright and attractive place for us all to work. We have a new Early Years classroom and outdoor learning environment.

We welcome visitors and hope that you will come and see for yourself what a happy place Shafton Primary Academy and what makes us the school of choice in our local area.

Thank you for your interest in our school and we look forward to meeting you.

Mrs Jo-Anne Charalambous and Governors.

Our aims and expectations

We have a high expectations for all children and a commitment to ensuring all children achieve high standards. We will achieve this by -

Supporting the development of children who –

  • Feel safe and know that if they have concerns they are listened to and are supported so that they thrive
  • Who can create, reflect, persevere, are resilient and aspire
  • Are able to work independently, collaboratively, as part of a team and to lead
  • Are thoughtful, have the ability to listen, are responsible and supportive of each other and have a strong work ethic
  • Are creative, analytical, critical and innovative
  • Have high expectations of themselves and each other
  • Respect themselves and others
  • Have endless curiosity, enthusiasm – who want to experience as much as possible and find out all they can

Creating a staff team who –

  • Are an expert workforce with shared determination to do their best for every child
  • Question practice and continually try to better meet the needs of all children and are supported in this by a detailed professional development programme
  • Equip children with the life skills they will need to be independent, reflective, resilient and resourceful learners as well as continuing to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
  • Provide exciting opportunities for children to use and apply their learning to enquiry and problem solving so they develop their understanding of the world
  • Plan, monitor and evaluate teaching, learning, the curriculum and progress in the academy to ensure the development of the whole child
  • Are proactive and highly skilled at identifying vulnerable children and collaborating with other agencies so that barriers to learning are removed and all children succeed
  • Help children acquire a range of personal, social and emotional attributes essential to their health and well-being and to life as a responsible citizen
  • Develop children so they can actively participate in and contribute to the academy where they feel respected, safe and supported

In an academy which –

  • Provides a caring, stimulating and enjoyable learning environment in which all children feel respected, safe and supported
  • Provides a flexible, challenging and purposeful curriculum that is relevant to our children and prepares them for the responsibilities and experiences of life
  • Offers opportunities to engage with a wide range of cultural experiences
  • Provides a broad rich curriculum that excites them about learning and the world, is rich in IT to help children participate fully in a constantly changing world
  • Equips children with the life skills they will need to be independent, reflective, resilient and resourceful learners as well as continuing to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
  • Values and develops a supportive partnership between home, school and the community
  • Provides opportunities to engage in a wide range of activities – social, the arts, sports and cultural, that will enrich their lives and develop their confidence, social and moral skills and self-belief

So that the local community has pride and confidence in our academy and trusts that their children will succeed and do well here.

Our Curriculum

Shafton Primary Academy is a dynamic and vibrant school, full of character, love and life. It provides a good standard of education as well a range of wonderful experiences through our inclusive curriculum which includes every child.

It is a school full of warmth, energy and enthusiasm where children feel nurtured, happy and valued. This calm, purposeful atmosphere is palpable the moment you step into the environment. We pride ourselves in having a committed staff team who are relentless in their drive to offer a curriculum which is broad and challenging. Expectation is high and children are motivated to ‘be the best that they can be’. All children work as hard as they can – it is our norm.

We follow the National Curriculum 2014 in all our subjects. Please click on the link below which will take you to a more detailed explanation about the National Curriculum.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210969/NC_framework_document_-_FINAL.pdf

However, we deliver the content of the National Curriculum through a variety of different ways which allow our children to learn in creative and richly engaging environments. This allows them to find a love of learning in everything they do. Our school curriculum is carefully designed to ensure coverage and progression through exciting, broad and balanced learning experiences. The curriculum provides pupils with memorable experiences, in addition to diverse and rich opportunities from which children can learn and develop a range of transferable skills. All planning builds upon prior learning to ensure that every child achieves. Pupils know the purpose for their learning, how to refine their work, the links between the subjects or themes and the relevance of these to their everyday lives.

Literacy - we have a traditional approach to literacy learning whereby children have lessons in spelling, grammar, handwriting and reading comprehension. Twice a week, the children in Year 1-6 write a longer piece of writing based on all sorts of things from traditional story-telling, to creative writing, from non-fiction writing about the Vikings to information texts about food and nutrition. Learning is always driven by what the children need to do next in order to get better and better. We make Literacy fun and you will see the teachers writing as much as the children as they guide learning through their marking.

Reading and Phonics- we use Oxford Reading Tree as our reading scheme and our phonics work is based on Letters and Sounds.

History and Geography - we try to make these subjects as lively and hands on as possible as we believe that if subjects come to life, children will remember them. In History, for example, we dress up and role-play about famous people from the past. We invite visitors into school and we go out on trips and visits.

Art - we have a specialist art teacher who teaches all year groups. He is a water colour artist in his own right.

PE - we have a specialist PE and Sports coach who leads our PE curriculum. We strongly believe that activity, team work and fair play are the foundations of so many things in life, building towards a happy, healthy and active future as adults.

Music - we have a specialist music teacher who comes to school for two days a week and teaches all year groups. She is passionate about singing and our school choir is outstanding. Our music curriculum inspires our children to take up piano, key board, drums, guitar and individual singing tuition as well as to perform in concerts and plays both in school and out in our community.

Ofsted

We are delighted to be currently judged as a 'good school' with outstanding for 'leadership and management and for our 'early years provision'. We were last inspected in October 2019. To view all our Ofsted reports please click here

WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY?

Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with AET.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our AET Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.

OUR TRUST

This is a hugely exciting time to be joining the organisation, and as we pivot from being in turnaround mode to becoming a high performance organisation on the pathway to sustainable excellence. This will see us building our in-house education improvement capacity and expertise, making sure that our schools have all the support they need to deliver an excellent education for every child, every day.

Our people are our single greatest resource and we want to make sure we are creating the optimum environment and conditions so that everyone in AET can do their very best work. We will only deliver on our promise of excellence for all of our children if we attract, develop and retain the very best talent in the country and surround them with exceptional development throughout their careers.

We want people on our team who are excited by scale and the prospect of having a deep and lasting impact on the lives of tens of thousands of children. We also want people who are intellectually rigorous, stay curious, and generous enough to be committed to the messy challenge of collaboration.

AET has an exciting future ahead and by joining us on this journey, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to make a lasting and meaningful impact on the children and young people in our schools.

Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

At AET, we want all of our employees to feel included bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, and we truly believe that diversity drives innovation.

We also offer teacher training programmes across our network. For more information please click here.

To find out more about AET please click here.

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