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KS2 Teacher - Full-time

The Stour Academy Trust

  • Ref:KCC-F9-19-T
  • Posted:27/04/2017
  • Pay:MPS
  • Start Date:Sep 2017
  • App Close Date:04/06/2017 at 21:00
  • Interviews:7th June

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Are you an NQT or experienced teacher? Start your teaching career with a supportive and collaborative network of teachers.

We currently have a teaching vacancy in Year 4 at Thistle Hill Academy, Minster-on-Sea. The position is initially based at Thistle Hill, but due to the growing nature of the Trust, opportunities for career development at other schools are available in the future. The Trust is able to offer successful candidates a Golden Hello to support any relocation or travel expenses.

With strong links with Canterbury Christ Church University, The Stour Academy Trust’s NQT induction process ensures that the appropriate guidance, support, training, expectations and observations are provided through a structured but flexible individualised programme.

The first year of teaching is a considerable significance in the professional development of a new teacher and this programme will enable you to form a secure foundation upon which a successful teaching career can be built.

The Trust’s programme for NQT’s was recently inspected and graded as outstanding. Inspectors said:

  • the quality of CPD provided by the Trust is a strength.
  • the NQTs feel very supported.
  • Many opportunities to observe others both within school and across the trust.
  • Great importance is placed on matching the mentor and NQT to ensure that personalities and experience complement each other.
  • NQT support is outstanding

Some quotes from our current and past NQT’s:

‘The on-going support and training is continually helping to develop my knowledge/skills in specific areas’.

‘The Head teacher and my mentor are exceptionally helpful.’

‘The Stour Academy Trust has made my NQT experience less stressful by providing experienced mentors and devising an NQT programme which will help me achieve my targets.’

‘Having the right support systems such as weekly NQT meetings with mentors was a massive help to make the transition into Primary teaching’

The Stour Academy Trust is able to ensure that NQTs have the very best opportunities to succeed during their induction year and beyond. Our collaborative approach allows for fantastic professional development and career opportunities for more experienced teachers. Join our team today.

If you would like to arrange a visit to the school, please contact the office manager at thistlehill@stouracademytrust.org.uk

Information about the trust

Join a supportive and collaborative network of staff at The Stour Academy Trust.

The Stour Academy Trust recognises that our education system needs to quickly and more radically shift to close equity gaps and to better prepare our young people for the 21st century. We are transforming our schools from passive forms of learning focused on direct instruction and memorisation, by moving towards interactive methods that promote the critical and individual thinking needed in today’s innovation-driven economy.

Our pedagogical model combined with the intentional deployment of technology will help us deliver personalised learning in an enabling environment. Technology will accelerate our progress but will not be the driver of our vision.

We aim to nurture a community of learners that challenge thinking, where our staff are empowered to take risks and develop their practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system, which is not held back by traditional restrictions and ideologies.

By limiting routine or unnecessary tasks we allow professionals to focus on learning behaviours and interactions which will promote emotional intelligence and the development of children as life-long, curious learners.

There will be no barriers to achievement within our learning community and our teachers will build strong relationships that facilitate the learning of others. Collaboration will open doors, minds and possibilities and enable individuals to meet their personal goals. .

We are looking for people that:

•Recognise that our current education system needs to radically change to better prepare our young people for the 21st century

•Want to move away from passive forms of learning and move towards interactive teaching methods that promote critical and individual thinking

•Are able to take advantage of the latest technology to deliver personalised learning that is accessible for all children, irrespective of their language skills, reading ability or any other factors that may present learning challenges

•Want to work with other staff as a community of learners that challenge traditional thinking

•Want to develop their own practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system

•Want to develop children as life-long, curious learners

•Want to build strong relationships with children that facilitate their learning

•Want to teach in enabling environments that promote flexibility, collaboration and independence

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.