Maths Teacher
St John's College School
Cambridge
- £32,030 - £50,471 per year
- New
- Salary:
- FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01 September 2026
- Apply by:
- 23 March 2026
Job overview
An enthusiastic, inspiring and well-qualified Maths educator is required to join our thriving independent prep school from September 2026; to deliver specialist Maths lessons to children from Years 5-8.
St John’s has a national reputation for the quality of education and pastoral care it provides. The Mathematics department at St John’s has a long history of developing confident mathematicians with high performance in examinations to academically selective senior schools, scholarships, and national competitions.
The Maths Department
Classes (of no more than twenty children) are taught in mixed ability form groups up to and including Year 4. Beyond this age, setting is introduced, typically from Year 6. Maths Enrichment provides further support for children in small groups and extension opportunities exist for the most able.
Maths specialists teach the older children (Years 5-8) at the Senior House site. The Maths department is well resourced with access to a wide range of resources and digital tools. Maths ‘clinics’ are offered to children as they approach exams and the school has a very strong record in national Maths competitions. Years 7-8 are significant years in the lives of prep school children as they prepare for their senior school entrance or scholarship examinations. The children achieve excellent results and their individual needs are closely monitored and cared for. The school promotes a Quality First Teaching approach and Children with specific learning difficulties are supported by the school’s exceptional Learning Support department.
The Maths Teacher Post
This post offers the chance to teach specialist Maths lessons to children in the 9-13 (Years 5-8) age range. There may be the opportunity for formal responsibility within the department but all specialists are expected to contribute to the development of the department to the benefit of the children.
For full details of the post, please see attached application pack.
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About St John's College School
Set in the heart of Cambridge, St John’s College School has long enjoyed and deserved a national reputation for the exceptional quality of education and care it provides, which focuses on fostering the aptitudes and nurturing the growth of each child. St John’s has been awarded national Best Prep School and national Best Prep School Head awards in the Tatler Schools Awards. Its teaching has been rated ‘inspirational’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate and it is the first of the very few to have achieved the coveted ‘exceptional’ grade for children’s attainment. At St John’s, we believe in a childhood filled with affection, in which children know that they are known and valued, in which they learn to trust themselves and each other, in which they find and express their voice, discover the difference they can make for themselves and others, learn to think for themselves, to question, to collaborate, to be independent, to own and take charge of their learning and their lives.
A curriculum that believes in children draws from them the highest and the deepest levels of attainment. Though we are not selective in our Kindergarten, our children are on average at the 85th centile on national tests or ability before they leave. Our exam results are outstanding and our 60 leavers gain on average around 25 scholarships to the strongest schools. Up to one-third of our past pupils in due course gain Oxbridge places each year, more than in the most academically selective of schools: our children continue to be exceptional learners.
The School is located in leafy Grange Road, a short walk across the playing fields from the centre of town and the College, at the heart of which sits the Chapel, home to the internationally renowned College Chapel Choir. The School site has undergone significant rebuilding or redevelopment in the last five years to ensure the facilities, layout and fabric of the buildings fully support the delivery of the School’s ethos.
The majority of children proceed at 13+ to day schools in Cambridge, each of which sets its own Entrance exams, predominantly in English and Maths. About one-third of the children proceed at 13+ to boarding schools via Common Entrance while others will proceed via Academic Scholarship examinations.
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