Salary Range: Main or Upper Payscale, depending on experience and skills
Contract: Part-time (4 days a week)
Start Date: September 2024

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Read our Class Teacher Job Description

Read an Introductory Letter from the Headteacher

Read our Application Guidance

Apply for the Post

Complete our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

Drayton Park is a community maintained primary school in the heart of Islington. We are a happy, vibrant and creative school which encourages positive attitudes to learning and where staff, pupils and the wider community come together to provide the highest standards of education. We are seeking a class teacher for four days a week to support colleagues who will be reducing to part-time working. The role will involve three days a week teaching one class and one day a week in another. It will be a fixed-term role, for a year, with the potential to move to a permanent, full-time position in future. If you are appointed, you will have further opportunity to apply for a subject responsibility, should you wish. 

You are: 

• Someone who loves helping children learn.
• An excellent teacher, ready for the next step in your career.
• Committed to supporting and including the broadest range of pupils. 
• Great at collaborating with colleagues.
• Committed to following the school’s policies and ethos, whilst helping us make them even better.
• Great at solving problems in positive ways.
• Good at using feedback and support to develop yourself.
• Committed to nurturing partnerships with parents and the wider community.

We offer: 

• An ambitious commitment to learning for all.
• Pride in our diversity and sense of community. 
• Great children who want to learn.
• Supportive management, committed to staff as well as pupil wellbeing.
• A strong sense of teamwork and collaboration.
• A commitment to excellent professional development.
• A creative and innovative approach to everything we do.

Visits to the school are encouraged and can be organised by contacting the school office on 020 7607 4142. 

Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 30th June, 2024      
Interview dates: Tuesday 2nd July, 2024