Start Date: Apr 2019

Salary: TSAT Grade D £20,045 - £22,561 FTE (pro-rata to £16,052 - £18,067)

Hours: 35 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks per year)

Start Date: Spring Term

Working hours - Monday - Friday, 8:30am – 4:00pm (35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year)

What you will get from The Gordon Children’s Academy:

• Happy, well behaved children who are keen learners
• Parents who are supportive of the school
• High expectations for all members of the school community
• Supportive staff within the school and amongst the Trust
• Excellent CPD opportunities especially through the New Horizons Teaching School’s Alliance
• A school that puts children first and at the centre of all policy, practise and decision making
• Discounted gym membership at Thinking Fitness

What you will need to succeed:

You will be a qualified HLTA or be willing to complete the relevant qualification, and have recent experience of working within a Primary setting. You will be dedicated to ensure that all of our children achieve their very best, be passionate about teaching and learning and have a positive outlook and interpersonal skills. We want to employ staff with high expectations of themselves and their pupils.

We want to employ staff who work well as part of a team and are keen to seek CPD. The successful candidate will be an aspiring leader of learning and be happy to grasp exciting opportunities and contribute to the values, ethos and the development of our new school.

You will be willing to take the opportunity to play a full part in the further development of our school and join us in our aims to make learning irresistible and to provide a nurturing and safe environment for everyone.

What you need to do now:

If you are interested in working in a large primary academy, benefiting from a large support network and you are keen to progress your career, then please apply today!

Visits to the school are strongly recommended, please contact Kerry Masters, Office Manager, to book an appointment.

Early applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Closing Date: 01/04/2019 at 16:00

Interviews: 1st April 2019

Information about the school

The Gordon’s Children’s Academy is a newly federated academy based in the Strood area. Our Junior and Infant school work closely together to ensure that all staff and children work together as one. We are lucky enough have a passionate workforce at our school who all care for and respect the fantastic children of our school. We are dedicated to school improvement and we all aim to provide a happy, safe and fun school environment for the children, and our staff too. We have high expectations of behaviour and we recognise that it is our responsibility to listen to the children verbally or by interpreting their behaviour.

Pupils of Gordon’s Children’s Academy are proud of their school and have an exciting environment around them to learn in, we encourage use of a creative curriculum and all children enjoy decorating their classroom whilst they focus on a particular topic across the curriculum.

Our school is set in a large Victorian building, with high ceilings and plenty of space for intervention and breakout sessions. We have three large halls, three playgrounds, we have a fantastic Early Years outdoor play area, a remembrance garden and a small stage built into one of our playgrounds too. Our location provides excellent links to the M2 and A2.

As part of the Thinking Schools Academy Trust, we benefit from working cohesively as a family of schools for the benefit of our children, and for the adults who work here too. The Trust supports with planning, trips, events, CPD and much more to ensure that all of our teachers are fully supported, enabling them to ensure that they can deliver the best learning that we can offer.

Our mission is to “transform life chances”; at The Thinking Schools Academy Trust we believe education has the power to change lives and children only have one chance to get this right. To ensure all our academies focus on our mission school leaders translated our mission to core values that would be demonstrated and evident in all our Academies:

Child First, Aspire, Challenge, Achieve

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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