Year 1 Class Teacher

Are you a fantastic, reflective classroom practitioner? Are you keen to develop the whole child to their potential? We wish to appoint a dynamic, creative teacher. The successful candidate will be:

• Excellent classroom practitioner.
• Committed to developing and nurturing our children.
• Has experience of teaching Year 1 to a high standard
• Has a good understanding of Speech and Language development and teaching of high quality phonics (especially Read Write Inc).
• Has a talent for bringing learning alive and are successful in securing children's excitement about their learning.

• Has a proven track record of helping children to achieve good progress levels and attainment outcomes.
• Has a good knowledge of child development, transition from EYFS and what helps all children learn.
• Shows a commitment to creating and participating in a strong community where everyone feels valued, safe, able to achieve their potential and where diversity is celebrated and everyone has a voice.
• Willing to go the extra mile for our fantastic children

• Has very high expectations of what children can achieve and the subject knowledge to enable children meet their potential.
• Has high expectations of themselves and others.
• Has the ability to promote a classroom ethos that supports children in developing effective interpersonal skills, independence and confidence to take a risk in developing their learning.
• Will demonstrate our school values in all you do.
• Shows resilience and has a proven track record of secure behaviour management, underpinned by a high expectations and a nurturing approach.
• A proactive team player, who can use their initiative and who makes things happen.

If you like a challenge, like to take risks with your teaching and are willing to take children to exciting places in their learning, like support and encouragement and are keen to continue your professional development, we want to meet you.

We can offer you:

• Wonderful children, who are keen to learn and are a pleasure to work with.
• A welcoming, friendly and supportive staff.
• Strong leadership of teaching and learning.
• Leaders who strongly value looking after staff well-being
• Well-behaved children who love inspirational teaching.
• Exceptional levels of teamwork at all levels.
• Opportunity to be part of an exciting journey of school improvement in implementing a new approach to phonics provision and implementing our exciting new enquiry-life skills curriculum.
• An established coaching culture where everyone works together to improve childrens’ opportunities and staff skills and confidence.
• A strong sense of community and belonging where everyone is valued.
• Highly effective working partnerships with Together for Newark, local hubs, Newark Family of Schools Networks, local Children’s Centres, Language Networks and a very strong area group for SEN-D provision and sharing between local primaries and settings.
• Excellent wider CPD opportunities through our links with local hubs and our membership of the Flying High (formerly Candleby Lane) Teaching School Alliance.
• A strong working relationship with local Language Lead Networks and Speech and Language Support via our SBAP.
• Involvement in the Oral Literacy and Language Project with Newark Town Schools Inclusion team

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something special. We are a good school with a strong aspiration to succeed in our journey to outstanding and beyond. Lovers’ Lane has a very strong family feel and an ethos which centres around our TEAM SWAN values to Show Respect, Work Together, Aspire and Nurture. Our forward-looking outlook affords teachers the chance to be creative, collaborative and develop the skills, passions and attributes of all children. We are building a great team of people who are innovative, practical and determined to deliver for our children.

We want all our teachers to teach excellent and innovative lessons consistently and be able to coach others to do the same. Successful candidates will be excited at working collaboratively across disciplines to deliver rich learning experiences and be keen to develop different pedagogies.

Prospective applicant visits are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school to arrange these or to request an application pack by emailing head @loverslane.notts.sch.uk

Closing Date: Thursday 28 November 12:00pm

Interview Date: Friday 6 December