Ashwood Spencer Academy are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and dedicated class teacher.  This role is temporary for one year.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality teaching and learning 
• Create a nurturing and inclusive classroom environment that supports the emotional and social development of all students.
• Collaborate with colleagues to plan and implement engaging and effective curriculum activities.
• Assess and monitor student progress, providing constructive feedback to support their growth.
• Engage with parents and carers to foster strong home-school partnerships.

To learn more about this role, please view the full job description and person specification.

Ashwood Spencer Academy joined Spencer Academies Trust in November 2018 and has gone from strength to strength each academic year. We have approximately 670 pupils on roll from nursery to year 6 and we are proud of our changing, diverse school community. Ashwood Spencer is at the heart of the community and is committed to improving educational outcomes for all our pupils. In October 2022, we received the IQM Inclusion Quality Mark with Centre of Excellence status and in October 2025, we achieved 'Flagship School Status'.  In our Ofsted inspection in February 2023, we were recognised as a ‘good’ school and we want to continue to improve on that status, by making the staff, pupils and community experience at Ashwood a magical one.

We are fully committed to our ethos of ‘Working together to believe and achieve’.

We work hard to make Ashwood a place to DREAM:

·          Determined risk takers who want to succeed

·          Resilient and respectful learners

·          Expressive communicators

·          Ambitious achievers, unafraid of mistakes

·          Magic happens when you dream

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date. 

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.