We are a popular primary school in the Oxfordshire town of Carterton, close to RAF Brize Norton. Visitors to our school often comment on the calm and friendly atmosphere, and our children are happy and enjoy their learning.  As a school we have worked really hard over the past few years to build a strong and committed team with the capacity to improve the outcomes for our pupils.  We are proud to be an academy as part of The River Learning Trust.  We feel very strongly that our school team, along with the wider family of the River Learning Trust, is what makes our school successful.

Key areas of responsibility:

Teaching and Learning

• To carry out the professional duties of a main grade teacher under the teacher’s contract (as defined in the most recent school teachers’ pay and conditions document) ensuring the education and welfare of a class/group of pupils having due regard to the school’s aims, values and curriculum.
• To be an excellent role model for the school community
• To teach children within KS1 or KS2

Pastoral Care

• To help promote and safeguard the welfare of all children
• To promote self-discipline, high standards of behaviour and positive attitudes on the part of all children and to implement policies and procedures to foster them
• Ensure that a high standard of care for all children is maintained
• To develop and implement equality of opportunity effectively throughout the school.

Communication and Community Links

• To fully support the life and work of the school
• To develop and maintain positive and effective professional relationships with colleagues, parents/carers, the local community and Governors
• To provide information to the Governing Body to enable it to meet its responsibilities
• To ensure that parents/carers and children are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress and are able to understand and contribute to targets for improvement

Subject Leader Responsibilities (not ECTs):

To promote the highest standards of achievement in a subject area through effective leadership and management of the subject.

To support the raising of standards within the subject they are leading across the whole school with support from the Leadership Team.

Policy and Leadership

• With support from the SLT, develop and review a curriculum subject and related action plans, policies, schemes of work, initiatives and training
• With support from the SLT, lead school planning with regard to School and National Curriculum expectations.
• To establish and maintain regular communications with LT.
• To work closely with SLT members to draw up, implement, monitor and evaluate the School Improvement Plan.
• To contribute to relevant sections of the SEF (Self-evaluation form)

Management of Teaching and Learning

• To act as a role model in planning for, delivery of, evaluation of and reflection on own teaching of the curriculum area
• To brief and update colleagues on relevant policy and practice through meetings and workshops
• To lead staff Professional Learning sessions

Evaluation and Quality

• To monitor and evaluate pupils’ learning and, where appropriate, appraise colleagues’ work in accordance with the schools monitoring schedule.

• To observe colleagues at work to inform and improve their practice.
• To create opportunities for colleagues to learn from each other.
• With support from the LT ensure monitoring, assessment and review of pupil’s work and recorded achievements inform future planning.
• To work with colleagues to establish a consistent view of school standards of achievement within a curriculum area.

The River Learning Trust principles are:

●                Commitment to Excellence: we have high expectations in all that we do

●                Everyone Learning: there is a culture of Professional Learning for all staff, as well as ensuring the very best Teaching and Learning for our pupils

●                Respectful Relationships: we treat each other with respect and we care about everyone in our school community

Our Teaching and Learning Policy (created and developed by staff) has a focus of the whole class ‘Teaching to the Top’, with an emphasis on high expectations, knowing our children well, excellent teacher subject knowledge and targeted, effective questioning.  The school’s Core Values of ‘well-being’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘resilience’ underpin this policy and form the basis of our school ethos.

The River Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.  Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.