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Primary Lead Practitioner

Primary Lead Practitioner

OneSchool Global UK Northampton Campus (Billing Road East)

Central Bedfordshire

  • Expired
Salary:
Salary negotiable dependent on experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
April 2017 or sooner
Apply by:
31 October 2016

Job overview

Are you looking for a senior education post that offers enjoyment, opportunity, professional challenge and a supportive environment that allows you to teach students that desire to excel in learning? 

Could you join our team of outstanding teachers and raise student attainment even further?

Are you hard working, conscientious and passionate about teaching?

We could be the school for you!

We are currently seeking an experienced and outstanding practitioner to lead our small primary school within an all-through school. This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic and highly motivated primary lead to join an excellent, hardworking independent school and friendly team.

The successful candidate will be accountable to the head teacher and trustees and play a vital role in raising attainment and will benefit from working with highly motivated students within a small class environment.

The role will consist of:

  • Teaching a mixed Y3/4 or 5/6 class
  • Lead the learning and the staff in Key Stage 2
  • Being a member of the school Leadership team

You will:

  • Have excellent communication skills and effective classroom management strategies
  • Be appropriately professionally qualified including Hons Degree and QTS
  • An excellent classroom practitioner
  • Have a proven track record in raising standards of achievement and supporting individual pupil learning through target setting and progress tracking
  • Consistently model high professional standards
  • Be willing to support the ethos of the school
  • Enjoy being part of a supportive team
  • Be caring and enthusiastic
  • Respect the school’s aims and values
  • Be committed to CPD and open to change
  • Have the ability to lead and motivate a team

We offer:

  • An excellent working environment with good resources
  • Supportive colleagues and community
  • Enthusiastic and motivated students
  • The opportunity to enhance your teaching experience with support for continued professional development
  • More than competitive remuneration

We seek to promote excellence in education and enjoy outstanding student achievement, engagement and behaviour, reflecting the Christian ethos and values of the school.

For further information please visit our website: www.focus-school.com or check out our LinkedIn page for information on all of our schools.

We welcome visits to the school prior to application. For a pre-application discussion or to arrange a visit, please contact Mr Toby Nutt, at the school on: 01582 665 676.

For an application pack, please contact Alison Cobb on: flt.recruit@focus-school.com  

Closing date for applications will be midday on 31st October
Interviews will take place shortly afterwards

Affiliated to Focus Learning Trust which provides direction and support to 27 UK schools. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a DBS Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure.

Focus School - Dunstable Campus
Ridgeway Avenue, Dunstable,
Bedfordshire LU5 4QL

Attached documents

About OneSchool Global UK Northampton Campus (Billing Road East)

OneSchool Global UK Northampton Campus is a new bespoke campus located in Hunsbury, Northampton opening September 2023, with the relocation of our Dunstable Campus.

OneSchool Northampton Campus is an Independent School with a vibrant atmosphere, good results and a clear vision for the future.

Benefits of working OneSchool Global UK Northampton Campus?

· Smaller class sizes

· Positive work environment – culture of respect and support from leadership, students and parents

· Work-life balance – no weekend sport and limited out of hours school activity

· Signature pedagogy – evidence based self-directed learning / progressive framework where teachers are coaches

· Collaboration with teachers nationally and internationally

· High-quality, modern, technology-empowered learning environments

· Career progression and advancement opportunities

· A global school network.

OneSchool Global is a truly global school, with over 120 campuses in 20 countries, including cities such as New York, Paris, Sydney, Rome, Auckland, Copenhagen, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

With an innovative approach to learning, delivered in cutting-edge, technology-empowered physical and digital learning environments, OneSchool Global is preparing life-ready students who learn how to learn.

Our vision for the future will see us move to an increasingly learner-led style of education where students take responsibility for their own learning, and teachers increasingly act as a ‘guide from the side’. This move to a more relevant self-directed style of education requires the leadership of a passionate senior teacher to inspire students, manage, coach and co-ordinate staff, and drive the teaching and learning to a new level of excellence.

We are a caring school where students enjoy the experience but at the same time we set high expectations. We believe in creating a culture whereby students can learn to be successful, self-directed learners”

District Principal: Mr Tony Wray

Number of Campus Staff: 30

Number of Students: 182

Vision & Values:

“A global education ecosystem that develops life-ready students who learn how to learn.”

At OneSchool each student, parent and staff member shall uphold the values of the School which include:

  • Integrity –      uprightness, honesty and decorous conduct, governed by the Holy Bible,
  • Care & Compassion -      kindness, consideration, and generosity to all,
  • Respect –      for all people, property, opinions, and authority,
  • Responsibility –      for our actions, progress and the environment and,
  • Commitment –      to self-discipline and the pursuit of excellence.

Our Campus Prospectus and latest Inspection Report can be downloaded from the links lower down the page.

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