Class Teacher

About us and the role

We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic Class Teacher to join Krishna Avanti Primary School and deliver consistently high-quality teaching that enables every pupil to achieve their full potential.

As a Class Teacher, you will take responsibility for the learning, progress, attainment and wellbeing of the pupils in your class, planning and delivering engaging, inclusive and appropriately differentiated lessons that meet a range of needs and abilities. You will use assessment and feedback effectively to monitor progress, identify next steps and ensure that pupils are supported and challenged to achieve their best.

You will create a safe, purposeful and positive classroom environment, building strong relationships with pupils and promoting high expectations, mutual respect, independence and positive behaviour. Working closely with colleagues, support staff and families, you will contribute to the wider life and ethos of the school and play an important role in supporting pupils’ personal development and wellbeing.

This role provides an opportunity to develop your teaching practice, share ideas and collaborate with colleagues, while making a meaningful and lasting contribution to the children and community at Krishna Avanti Primary School.

School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time. 

Krishna Avanti Primary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school that provides a warm, friendly and engaging learning environment for children from all backgrounds and walks of life. Staff and students at the school do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none.

The staff at Krishna Avanti Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities of all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.

This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:

• Educational excellence
• Character formation
• Spiritual insight

We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our students to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.

What will you do?

• Lead the learning, progress, attainment and wellbeing of all pupils in the class, ensuring high expectations, equality of opportunity and appropriate support for individual needs.
• Plan and deliver engaging, inclusive and well-differentiated teaching, using assessment, feedback and pupil data effectively to secure strong progress and outcomes.
• Create a safe, purposeful and respectful learning environment, promoting positive behaviour, independence, high standards and the safeguarding and welfare of every pupil.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, support staff, families, governors, the Avanti Schools Trust and external agencies to support pupils and contribute positively to the wider life and ethos of the school.
• Reflect on and develop professional practice through collaboration, training and performance management, while fulfilling all statutory, administrative and professional responsibilities expected of a teacher.

Why should you apply 

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

What are we looking for?

• Qualified to bachelor’s degree level in relevant subject or allied subject
• QTS qualified
• Able to self-start, work independently and collaboratively as part of a team, whether led or leading
• Clear vision and understanding of how to implement and sustain a high-quality teaching and learning
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. 

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.