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Nursery Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Nursery Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Ark Globe Academy

London

Salary:
Nursery Class Teacher (maternity cover)
Job type:
Full Time, Maternity Cover
Apply by:
25 February 2018

Job overview

Job Description: Nursery Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Reporting to: Senior Assistant Principal

Start date: Monday 5th March 2018

Salary: AM1 – AM6

Contract: 12 months (Maternity Cover)

The Role

  • To deliver outstanding teaching and learning and therefore help pupils achieve excellent academic results
  • To implement and design an engaging and challenging curriculum that inspires children to appreciate the range of subjects and their application.

Key Responsibilities

  • To plan, resource and deliver lessons and sequences of lessons to the highest standard that ensure real learning takes place and students make superior progress
  • To provide a nurturing classroom and academy environment that helps students to develop as learners
  • To help to maintain/establish discipline across the whole academy
  • To contribute to the effective working of the academy.

Outcomes and Activities

Teaching and Learning

  • Enrich the curriculum with trips and visits to enhance the learning experience of all pupils
  • With direction from the Primary Principal and within the context of the academies curriculum and schemes of work, plan and prepare effective teaching modules and lessons
  • Teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve pupil attainment
  • Use regular assessments to set targets for students, monitor student progress and respond accordingly to the results of such monitoring
  • To produce/contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual and groups of pupils
  • Develop plans and processes for the classroom with measurable results and evaluate those results to make improvements in student achievement
  • Ensure that all students achieve at least at chronological age level or, if well below level, make significant and continuing progress towards achieving at chronological age level
  • Maintain regular and productive communication with pupils, parents and carers, to report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications
  • Provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils
  • Direct and supervise co-teachers assigned to the class and when required participate in related recruitment and selection activities
  • Implement and adhere to the behaviour management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of pupils is maintained at all times
  • Participate in preparing pupils for assessments

Academy Culture

  • Support the academy’s values and ethos by contributing to the development and implementation of policies practices and procedures
  • Help create a strong academy community, characterised by consistent, orderly behaviour and caring, respectful relationships
  • Help develop a culture and ethos that is utterly committed to achievement
  • To be active in issues of pupil welfare and support
  • Support and work in collaboration with colleagues and other professional in and beyond the school, covering lessons and providing other support as required.

Other

  • Undertake, and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development
  • Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the line manager or Primary Principal.

Person Specification: Nursery Teacher (Maternity cover)

Qualification Criteria

  • Qualified to degree level and above
  • Qualified to teach and work in the UK

Experience

  • Experience of raising attainment of all pupils in a challenging classroom environment
  • Experience of reflecting on and improving teaching practice to increase pupil achievement
  • Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning in the year group through schemes of work, assessment and extra-curricular activities etc.

Knowledge

  • Up to date knowledge in the EYFS curriculum
  • Understanding of the strategies needed to establish consistently high aspirations and standards of results and behaviour

Behaviours

Leadership

  • Effective team member
  • High expectations for accountability and consistency
  • Vision aligned with Ark’s high aspirations, high expectations of self and others
  • Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every pupil
  • Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
  • Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.

Teaching and Learning

  • Excellent classroom practitioner
  • Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and reward
  • Has very good communication, planning and organisational skills
  • Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
  • Acts as a role model to staff and pupils
  • Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice.

Other desirable training and skills

  • Training and practice in Ruth Miskin’s ‘Read, Write Inc.’

Other

  • Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
  • Willingness to undertake training
  • This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Attached documents

About Ark Globe Academy

In 2008 Geoffrey Chaucer Secondary and Joseph Lancaster Primary school merged to join the Ark network as Ark Globe Academy. Ark Globe Academy is a mixed all through school with student age ranging from 3-18.

At Ark Globe Academy we have the highest aspirations for all our children to ensure they are prepared for university and inspired to be leaders in their community. We offer our students a first-class education based on high quality teaching and experiences outside of the classroom.

Our school was recognised by the Government in its Parliamentary Review as an example of good practice in education and students make excellent progress at KS4. All our sixth form students received a university offer with 73% of those being a top 3rd university.

Ark Globe Sixth Form is in the top 2% of all sixth forms in the country and has received the Sixth Form of the Year award at the Ark Education Summit 2019.

School Structure

Ark Globe Academy is divided into four small schools Elbrus, McKinley, Kilimanjaro and Everest, also each small school has a Dean. This ensures that personal relationships between pupils and staff develop quickly, and that a culture of excellent behaviour and shared social norms are easier to maintain.

Aims, Vision and Values

Supporting our mission is our Culture Pyramid. The pyramid sets out for students, staff and parents our purpose, our beliefs and our values. This helps to set expectations in our daily lives at Ark Globe Academy. Read more about our culture pyramid here.

Every child has the potential to succeed and there are no excuses not to achieve that success. We expect every Ark Globe Academy students to graduate from our academy with the qualifications, skills and confidence to achieve their ambitions and go on to higher education or their chosen career.

Curriculum

Our curriculum is intended to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community.

The Ark Globe Curriculum encompasses the total experience of the student, covering a range of activities from what is learnt in the classroom to our expectations of how our students carry themselves, and make decisions, outside of it. For us, education is much more than a qualification; it is a way of being that results in an empowered young person who is able to secure a life of purpose and meaning.

We recognise that attending university is often key to this as, we believe, it provides young people with more choices. As such, the academic, pastoral and cultural curriculum has been designed to prepare students for university and to be leaders in their community. However, we also recognise that there are high quality alternatives to university, and we help students to secure these too. Whatever choice is made, we want it to be an informed one, where our students determine their own future. Read more about our curriculum here.

Our Mission: Preparing our students for university and to be leaders in their community

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARKGlobeAcademy

Our website: https://arkglobe.org/

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