Class Teacher

At Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Cowley, we are seeking an enthusiastic, dedicated and inspirational teacher to join our welcoming and supportive school community. Whether you are an Early Career Teacher beginning your professional journey or an experienced practitioner looking for a new opportunity, we offer a nurturing environment where staff are valued, supported and encouraged to flourish. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to children's lives, inspiring a love of learning and helping every child to achieve their full potential within our caring Catholic school.

To set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining the standards of the school.
• In setting targets, take into account cohort targets and how these will be met.
• In setting targets, take account of the level of challenge for pupils across the cohort of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions.
• Actively support the Catholic ethos of the school in relationships with children, colleagues and parents, both in class and around the school.

• Demonstrate clear understanding of the needs of children of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions so that the majority of pupils make at least good progress.
• Use data effectively, demonstrating analytical thinking in reviewing and evaluating progress and attainment and in meeting appropriate, challenging targets for all pupils for both class and cohort.
• Demonstrate, through self-review, an effective evaluation of the impact of teaching.
• Demonstrate in depth knowledge of how children learn and adapt teaching accordingly.
• Establish a culture that ensures that pupils have a responsible and conscientious attitude to work.
• Engage with colleagues in review and evaluation of cohort progress and attainment.
• Actively promote parental involvement and initiate opportunities to involve them.
• Lead on subject development through staff training or INSET.
• Provide quality, accurate, professional reports (verbal and written) for parents.

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining the standards.
• Demonstrate knowledge and expertise across the range of subjects through coherent planning and lively, inspirational teaching.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge through subject leadership, inspiring colleagues and establishing a curriculum that ensures consistency across a year group and progression across the school.
• Effectively carry out the subject leadership role from MPS2 upwards.
• Know the strengths and areas for development in leading a subject and bring about improvement through action planning.
• Take responsibility for own CPD, keeping abreast of changes/ developments across a range of subjects and leading improvement within an area of responsibility.
• Evaluate own subject leader performance in terms of impact on teaching and learning.

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining standards.
• Consistently teach lessons which are good or outstanding and which include agreed ‘non-negotiables’ and which are in line with the school’s curriculum intent.
• Through effective planning and provision, demonstrate understanding of different styles of learning and how these are accommodated.
• Be systematic in evaluating learning within and across a sequence of lessons.
• Actively engage parents in their children’s learning.
• Facilitate the views of children and parents’ on learning.
• Work effectively as part of a team, ensuring consistency across a year group.
• Take a significant role in collaborative planning.
• Recognise own accountability for curriculum provision within the class and the quality of learning.

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining standards.
• Ensure that teaching is consistently good and outstanding.
• Demonstrate how teaching has been adapted to accommodate the needs…