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Class Teacher - Full-time

Copperfield Academy, Gravesend

  • Ref:KCC886-2024-220T
  • Posted:08/03/2019
  • Pay:MPS/UPS
  • Start Date:Immediate
  • App Close Date:29/03/2019 at 12:00
  • Interviews:tbc

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 Our incredible pupils are looking for Class Teachers who…

 

…will ensure they are always our priority

…are willing to take risks with learning

…are irresistibly optimistic

…are passionate about the challenge of learning

…are committed to improving children’s life chances

…deal in hope and aspiration

…are committed to an all-inclusive approach to learning

…are experienced in/across the Primary phase

 

Does this sound like you?

 

If so, we need YOU – please get in touch!

 

Copperfield Academy is committed to providing the highest standards of educational opportunity to every one of its pupils. 

Having been inspected earlier this year, we continue our journey of radical transformation in developing a learning community where pupils are engaged in developing the skills, knowledge and understanding needed for global citizenship in the 21st Century.

 

 After touring Copperfield, your letter of application MUST contain information regarding: 

  • your personal philosophy of education and view of how children learn;

 

  • your understanding and experience of safeguarding children and promoting a safe learning environment;

 

  • the principles which you believe should underpin a curriculum for pupils of all abilities to make better than expected progress and achieve appropriately high levels of attainment;

 

  • the learning environment that you would want to create to promote quality and high standards;

 

  • the climate that you would want to create to support effective learning and personal development;

 

  • your understanding of, and commitment to, teamwork;

 

  • the areas of teaching expertise and curricular specialism that you can offer, or would wish to develop.

 

The successful candidates will: 

  • be able to carry out all duties as described in the School Teacher’s Pay and Conditions Document
  • work directly to the Teachers’ Standards 2012
  • have all the essential attributes as described above

 

The Process:

 

A tour of the school with pupils and a member of the Senior Leadership Team

 

A letter to the Senior Leadership Team evidencing all the above

 

A 20-min group activity and observation

 

A short interview, only upon successful completion of your group observation

 

Children are our Priority

Change is the Reality

Collaboration is our Strategy

 

 

Copperfield Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

 

The successful applicants will be required to possess an Enhanced Disclosure certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service, and to complete registration with its update service.

 

Tours available upon appointment – please call, and arrange a visit, prior to application:

01474 352488

 

Copperfield Academy

Dover Road East

 Northfleet

Gravesend

Kent

Information about the school

Copperfield is an old and long-established Northfleet School, having opened as Dover Road School in 1904.

Increasing success in recent years has meant we are fast becoming a very popular school with local families, and we currently have the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren here of former pupils. We are known for extending a warm welcome to families that are new to Gravesend and to many families new to the UK.

As part of the nationwide REAch2 Academy Trust, leaders and staff at Copperfield are committed to working hard to ensure it is a happy school where pupils of all ages thoroughly enjoy their learning and being at school. We consider ourselves to be a supportive extended family of, and for, all our families that is able to meet the needs of the most-able and the most-challenged.

It is now formally recognised that Copperfield Academy is a good school, and a vibrant school. Classrooms are calm and purposeful places, where pupils learn in a safe atmosphere. Leaders are determined that every pupil’s experience, regardless of their individual needs, is a positive and successful one. As a result, pupils flourish and thrive.

Job Contact Information

Fax: 01474 352413

Documents

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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.