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.

Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils

Set an example, in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining the standards.

• 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.

 Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge

• 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.

Plan and teach well-structured lessons

• 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.

 Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils

• 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 off groups and individuals.
• Initiate strategies to engage parents in their children’s learning, especially hard to reach parents or those whose first language is not English.

Make accurate and productive use of assessment

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining standards.
• Be highly competent in assessment across the curriculum, both formative and summative and in using outcomes to support accurate, challenging target setting and continuous progress and high attainment.
• Be aware of local and national data when evaluating expectations and performance.
• Use school data effectively to track progress and set challenging targets.
• Be highly competent in marking and providing feedback to pupils.
• Establish strategies to encourage children to respond to feedback.
• Engage fully in moderation activities as required and initiate moderation activities with year group colleagues.

Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining standards.
• Be highly competent in managing an effective learning environment so that all children are actively engaged in learning and there is no evidence of low-level disruption.
• Be aware of local and national data when evaluating expectations and performance.
• Recognise responsibility and accountability for maintaining high standards of behaviour beyond the classroom.
• Keep parents well informed and work effectively with them to bring about improvement where necessary.
• Inspire children’s respect and form positive relationships.

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

• Set an example in all aspects, share good practice and support other colleagues in maintaining standards.
• Be proactive in supporting the Catholic ethos of the school.
• Actively promote our school within the PFMAC and attend CPD as a group of schools within one academy company.
• Be positive and encouraging in times of change.
• Generate respect from colleagues through highly effective professional working and supportive relationships.
• Show full cooperation and support for colleagues managing development or change.
• Form highly effective relationships with children that generate respect, confidence and high self-esteem.
• Form highly effective relationships with parents through, for example, good communication, listening to and acting upon concerns, providing professional guidance in respects to all aspects of school life.
• Recognise responsibility and accountability for the effective deployment of support staff within the teaching team.
• Liaise with the Leadership and Management Team to ensure that support staff have the key skills they need to work effectively.
• Fully engage in reflection, self-evaluation and appraisal, recognising the need to base conclusions on robust evidence.
• Take responsibility for own CPD through research and independent learning and actively participate in school based CPD to support school and personal professional improvement.
• Support the school-parish partnership by attending sacramental and parish events.
• Be willing to run an after school club or activity at some point throughout the school year.
• Lead assemblies on a rota basis.

Section 3: Safeguarding

Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant pre-employment checks.