Year 1 Teacher - Islington

Year 1 Teacher – Islington – Fixed-Term - Outstanding Primary School

Role: Year 1 Teacher

Contract: Full-time, Fixed Term (3 terms)  

Pay Scale: MPS3-UPS3 – Inner London (£42,536 – £60,092) DOE

School: Primary, 2-form-entry

Ofsted rating: Outstanding

Start date: January 2025

End date: December 2025 (possibility to be extended or turn into a permanent contract)

EARLY APPLICATIONS ADVISED

We are looking for a Class Teacher for Year 1.

We are open to teachers at all pay levels applying, including upper pay scale, as we wish to have a balance of experience levels amongst the staff.

The role of Year 1 Teacher will have a major impact on the children’s lives through delivering high quality teaching and learning. We are looking for someone who:

• Understands how to break learning down into manageable chunks, and be adaptable and flexible to meet children’s needs
• Is committed to improving children’s lives through education - and shows resilience and commitment to this challenge
• Has a commitment to professional growth- wanting to do things better all the time
• Has compassion for our children, some of whom have real challenges in their lives (domestic violence, poverty, parental mental health needs)

MAIN RESPONSIBILTIES

Relationships with children and young people

• Have high expectations of children and young people including a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them.
• Hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high standards of behaviour in their professional role.

Frameworks

• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work, and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the policies and practice of their workplace, including those designed to promote equality of opportunity.
• Communicating and working with others

Communicate effectively with children, young people and colleagues.

• Communicate effectively with parents and carers, conveying timely and relevant information about attainment, objectives, progress and well-being.
• Recognise that communication is a two-way process and encourage parents and carers to participate in discussions about the progress, development and well-being of children and young people.
• Recognise and respect the contributions that colleagues, parents and carers can make to the development and well-being of children and young people and raising their levels of attainment.
• Have a commitment to collaboration and co-operative working where appropriate.

Personal and professional development

• Evaluate their performance and be committed to improving their practice through appropriate professional development.
• Have a creative and constructively critical approach towards innovation; being prepared to adapt their practice where benefits and improvements are identified.
• Act upon advice and feedback and be open to coaching and mentoring.

Professional knowledge and understanding

Teaching and learning

• Have a good, up-to-date working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise learning to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.

Assessment and monitoring

• Know the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas they teach, including those relating to public examinations and qualifications.
• Know a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of formative assessment.
• Know how to use local and national statistical information to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching, to monitor the progress of those they teach and to raise levels of attainment.
• Know how to use reports and other sources of external information related to assessment in order to provide learners with accurate and constructive feedback on their strengths, weaknesses, attainment, progress and areas for development, including action plans for improvement.

Subjects and curriculum

• Have a secure knowledge and understanding of their subjects/curriculum areas and related pedagogy including: the contribution that their subjects/curriculum areas can make to cross-curricular learning; and recent relevant developments.
• Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula and frameworks, including those provided through the National Strategies, for their subjects/curriculum areas and other relevant initiatives across the age and ability range they teach.

Achievement and Diversity

• Understand how children and young people develop and how the progress, rate of development and well-being of learners are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic influences.
• Know how to make effective personalised provision for those they teach, including those for whom English is an additional language or who have special educational needs or disabilities, and how to take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion in their teaching.
• Understand the roles of colleagues such as those having specific responsibilities for learners with special educational needs, disabilities and other individual learning needs, and the contributions they can make to the learning, development and well-being of children and young people.
• Know when to draw on the expertise of colleagues, such as those with responsibility for the safeguarding of children and young people and special educational needs and disabilities, and to refer to sources of information, advice and support from external agencies.

Literacy, numeracy and ICT

• Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to support their teaching and wider professional activities.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Qualified Teacher Status and evidence of appropriate subsequent in-service training.
• Proven successful teaching experience in at least one inner city multi-cultural school.
• Be confident to teach in KS1, including SEN students within a well-resourced and facilitated classroom to support individual needs
• Proven experience of leading and managing change at an appropriate level including the curriculum, classroom organisation and administration in a school.
• Proven experience of high standards of classroom practice and of teaching area of responsibility.

Personal Qualities

• Evidence of the personal and intellectual qualities required to set an example to others and to lead a team.
• Respect for the views of parents and a commitment to the importance of the involvement of parents in the learning process.

Commitment to Excellence

• Evidence of a commitment to excellence and the maximising of academic and personal achievement for all pupils.

Interpersonal Skills

• Evidence of good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as member of a team and develop and maintain good relations with all members of the school community. To work co-operatively with the staff of the Local Education Authority and relevant agencies as required.

Educational and Curriculum Matters

• An understanding of the different ways in which children learn and the appropriateness of a variety of teaching styles to meet the individual learning needs of each child.
• Evidence of good organisational skills to create and maintain a stimulating and attractive learning environment.
• Evidence of the ability to organise successfully the curriculum for a class of pupils of mixed abilities, aptitudes and educational needs through planning, preparation, monitoring and assessment.
• A thorough knowledge of the area of responsibility including its specific requirements in relation to the National Curriculum and learning strategies for children of all abilities.
• Evidence of good general knowledge of the requirements of the National Curriculum.

Behaviour and Ethos

• Evidence of the ability to maintain effective classroom discipline in a positive context and to promote well-ordered and self-disciplined behaviour throughout the school

The Headteacher is keen to interview ASAP, so apply NOW for this Year 1 Teacher position.

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. You will have a safeguarding responsibility if appointed. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references. This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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Year 1 Teacher – Islington – Permanent - Outstanding Primary School