Class Teacher
John Ball Primary School
Lewisham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 5 June 2015
Job overview
Contract term: Temporary, 1 academic year
The role:
Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you want to be part of a happy, supportive and forward thinking school? If so, this is an incredibly exciting time to come and join our team. We are looking for an innovative, dynamic and creative teacher to join us in September 2015 as we start our expansion to three forms of entry.
Location:
We are based in Southvale Road, SE3 0TP, next to Blackheath train station with excellent transport links into London and Kent.
We are looking for teachers who:
- Have been judged by others to have high quality teaching skills
- Have a passion for learning and teaching
- Have high expectations of themselves and the children
- Have the ability and determination to inspire and motivate children to achieve their best
- Want to contribute to the school as a whole
Further information about us:
- We were inspected in November 2013 and judged to be outstanding in all areas. We have an excellent local reputation.
- Almost all parents and staff agreed and strongly agreed in our recent questionnaire that our children behave well, were safe and that they would recommend us to other parents.
- We are consistently performing in the top 10% of schools nationally and were recognized as one of the top 500 schools in England by the Sunday Times in 2014.
- We are currently in partnership with Torridon Junior School in Lewisham.
- We are expanding to be 3 forms of entry with our newly extended and refurbished building fully opening in September 2015.
- Our children are brilliant– enthusiastic and able with excellent attitudes to learning
- Strong leadership; a school that is well organised and managed
- High quality CPD supporting you to be the best; we are able to talent spot and support teachers at every level of their career. We run an NQT support programme within our own partnership and with three other local schools.
- A fantastic staff; supportive and friendly – we laugh a lot!
- We serve a culturally, socially economic diverse community
- We provide our pupils with a rich and varied curriculum both in and out of the classroom
- We support one another. People want to come and work with us.
- Through rigorous financial planning we have maintained all of our staffing levels.
- We have teaching assistants in every class.
- Our parents are incredibly supportive and want to help their children to learn.
See our website www.johnballschool.com for more details about our school. Read our weekly newsletter to see what we are doing.
Closing Date:
Application forms are available to download from our website or by emailing info@johnball.lewisham.sch.uk. If you would like to visit the school on Wednesday 3rd June at 4pm, please telephone the school office on 020 8852 1601.
The deadline for applications is Friday 5th June at 4pm. Please return completed applications to the above email address or by post. Interviews will be held in June. Only short listed candidates will be contacted and references will be taken up prior to interview.
John Ball School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We implement all elements of the safer recruitment process and all posts are subject to pre-employment checks. References will be sought and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
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About John Ball Primary School
Our School
Our School John Ball School is sited on the edge of the Blackheath Ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. The school is 3 form entry with 612 pupils on roll with a bulge year group in YR3 for 2018/2019. The school has been through two major building programmes to accommodate the extra classes. The School and LA were granted funding from the DfE’s Basic Need Fund to permanently expand the school to 3 form entry.
The most distinctive characteristic of John Ball Primary School is the exceptionally diverse economic, social and cultural backgrounds of its children and the community it serves. The main aim and overriding ethos of the school is to address this diversity of context and to be a consistently inclusive school under the motto “Achievement, ambition and progress for all…”
John Ball is one of the highest performing schools in Lewisham and England. Additionally, our Early Learning and KS1 outcomes are consistently above the Local Authority and National averages.
John Ball — Our Approach
First and foremost people learn best when they feel safe, secure and happy. Our staff prioritise positive relationships with our pupils as the bedrock of all that we do. From there we focus on learning to learn. We then develop the skills our young people need to be successful learners and confident individuals.
Without the ability to read, to write and to work with numbers, people can never take advantage of what education and the wider world has to offer. At John Ball we make sure that all of our pupils are taught these basic skills rigorously.
Our pupils learn in a variety of ways and we believe in varying the learning experiences we offer them in order to best meet their needs. Our curriculum is rich, engaging and exciting; designed to reflect the world and community our children live in. Our pupils will experience high quality direct teaching where they are expected to interact with the teacher through quality questioning. At times they will learn independently, collaboratively and actively through play, discovery, innovation, design and essentially through talking and listening.
We teach skills and knowledge to children in discrete subject areas and also through the wider curriculum where we group learning together. Our staff are very skilled at taking subject areas and linking them. We also endeavour to ensure that pupils have the chance to appreciate how what they are learning relates to the wider world and their future. We have worked hard to provide our young people with a highly stimulating learning environment.
We are unique and lucky as an inner London school to have the extensive grounds that we do. Our pupils have a wonderfully green, wooded environment to play and learn in. How many schools can boast having a half acre wood in their grounds?
Equal Opportunities
At John Ball, we are committed to developing and maintaining the highest standards of respect and justice for all our pupils and their families. Our pupils come from many cultural and religious backgrounds, reflecting the diversity within our local community. We are constantly striving for this diversity to be reflected by both staff and governors.
We oppose and challenge discrimination on any basis. We work in partnership with parents/carers to ensure awareness and understanding of the different beliefs and traditions which co-exist within the school and community. We endeavour to ensure that our resources, code of conduct, school organisation and recruitment policies reflect our determination to ensure equal opportunity for all.
The School Community
Staff
The Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher and Assistant Headteacher lead the school assisted by a Management Team of senior teachers. In addition to this, most members of the teaching staff hold leadership responsibility for a specialist area of the curriculum. We are also very fortunate to have a highly trained group of support, office and premises staff to aid in the effective and smooth running of the school.
Governors
Our Governors are representatives of the local community, parents/carers and school staff. They bring a range of interests, knowledge and skills to this role. They have responsibility for overseeing the organisation, curriculum and budget of the school. Governors meet four times a year and more regularly in smaller sub-committees.
Friends of John Ball
Friends of John Ball is a registered charity. It is a group made up of parents/carers, friends and staff who co-ordinate social and fundraising events during the year. Meetings are held regularly to plan whole school events and to decide where best to target funds raised. All parents/carers and staff are automatically members and your skills and support would be very much welcomed.
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