Maternity Cover Part-Time - Temporary

Smeeth Community Primary School, Ashford

• Ref:KCC886-2289-60T
• Posted:24/06/2025
• Pay:Main Pay Spine
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:05/07/2025 at 09:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Key Stage 2 teacher required to teach a lovely class of Year 5/6 children. This is a maternity cover job share, teaching two and a half days a week, including handover time.

The Head Teacher and School Governors are seeking to appoint an enthusistic, kind and committed teacher to work in our beautiful village school.

We are a happy, friendly small school, with a warm and supportive ethos. Our children are kind, caring, motivated, extremely well-behaved and a pleasure to work with. Our staff team is positive, professional, committed and child-centred. As leaders, we understand that staff need a happy team to support each othetr. Children love coming to school and are excited to learn.

The successful candidate will be someone who is cheerful, positive and committed to giving our children the opportunity to learn excellence through our exciting new curriculum.

If you are an experienced, enthusiastic teacher and you have a positive, child-centred approach, please contact the school office to make an appointment to visit the head teacher as soon as possible. We would love to show you around!

The school is committed to the safeguarding of children and the appointment is subject to an enhanced Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau), suitable references and other essential recruitment checks.

All applications to be made via Kent-teach- KCC application form.

Information about the school

At Smeeth Community Primary School, we provide an educational environment where children are safe, happy and excited to learn. We offer a creative curriculum which will inspire our children to grow into independent, responsible and confident young people. We are also lucky enough to be a fully-accredited Forest School, making the most of our fabulous grounds. Smeeth Community Primary School is situated in the beautiful rural village of Smeeth and the neighbouring area of Brabourne Lees, close to the North Downs AONB. The school is set in gorgeous surroundings; there are beautiful playing fields, split into two levels by a bank, just made for tobogganing when the snow is deep enough, and a playground bordered by a large patio area. In addition, we have an outdoor classroom, trim trail, clamber stack and all the trapping of a fabulous Forest School. From the upper school campus are views across endless green fields. We have a beautiful, cosy library full of lovely new books, a spacious Early Years area and a wonderful kitchen on site, where delicious meals are prepared daily. There are five lovely classrooms, two in the extended Victorian building and three more in the building that includes the hall. The Victorian schoolhouse is now part of the school’s working area and contains the offices, reception, upstairs storage and a cosy, comfortable PPA room where staff can work in peace and quiet. The children's learning environment is extremely important to us; we have redecorated throughout and now boast beautiful hardwood floors, new washrooms for the children and a comfortable, newly-redecorated staffroom (complete with coffee machine!) - because our staff work extremely hard, and also need somewhere lovely to relax!

Job Contact Information

• Name:Ms Jennifer Payne
• Address:Caroland Close, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6RX
• Telephone: (01303) 813128
• Email: schooloffice@smeeth.kent.sch.uk

Fax: 01303 813128

Documents

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• Job Description and Person Specification