Lower Key Stage 2 Teacher

Lower Key Stage 2 Teacher

MPS/UPS

Full Time, Fixed Term

We are looking for individuals with the following qualities:

• Going the extra mile to offer our children exciting and innovative learning experiences
• Risk takers, research driven and reflective practitioners who embrace challenge
• Excellent practitioners keen to develop their skills
• Ability to passionately demonstrate flexible teaching strategies which incorporate mastery
• Team members who are self-motivating
• Committed to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
• Willing to promote Trust ethos and values

Our children are looking for a teacher who: 

•  Has a proven track record of working with children in Lower Key Stage 2 to improve outcomes
• Is a creative thinker
• Puts children at the heart of their decision making
• Has a ‘whatever it takes attitude’ to remove barriers to learning
• Is reflective
• Is research driven and evidence informed
• Wants to make a difference to the lives of all children they teach
• Is a team player with a sense of humour 

In return, as part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we can offer you: 

• A collaborative ethos, working with other schools and colleagues to develop day to day practice and continue your journey
• A creative and unique environment rich in innovative approaches to teaching and learning
• An inclusive and welcoming team to work with, collaboratively
• An Ofsted OUTSTANDING school (2013/2014)
• A friendly, supportive and professional team of staff
• A commitment to provide Continuing Professional Development
• Access to high quality CPD and professional development through in-house training, the Derby Research School, working closely with the national Research Schools Network, and Spencer Academies Trust

Wyndham Spencer Academy is a forward-thinking school with a fully inclusive ethos. We work to our GREAT expectations and are committed to providing our enthusiastic and vibrant children with the highest standard of education in a safe learning environment rich with technology.

We offer fantastic CPD opportunities and strive to grow leadership skills in everyone.

Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

• All children have a right to quality education regardless of background or ability and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a 'family' and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for the quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff and have demonstrable evidence of driving teaching and learning outcomes in the Key Stage 1 and key Stage 2 phases. 

If you would like to discuss the role, or arrange a visit, please contact Mrs A John on 01332 571153 or email ajohn@wyndhamspencer.org.uk

Visit dates: 20th March 2024- 1.30pm, 18th April 2024 - 4 pm, 19th April 2024 – 9.30am         

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:  http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf   

To apply to work with Spencer Academies Trust, please complete your candidate profile via our new Every Portal. If you are accessing our Every portal for the first time, you will need to register to add and save your candidate profile information, before tagging your profile to this vacancy. We have added a video to help guide you, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656 

Please submit your application by no later than Friday 10th May 2024.  Our application deadlines can end earlier, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible as we will contact you before the closing date.

Interview date: 20th May 2024

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer