Maternity Cover: Key Stage 1 Teacher

Maternity Cover: Key Stage 1 Class Teacher (with possible subject leadership)

The Role

Rosemary Works School is seeking a dynamic, skilled, and enthusiastic teacher to join our busy, friendly team starting January 2025. The successful candidate will teach Year One and will have opportunities for professional development. For the right individual, there may also be the chance to lead a subject across the school.

This position is initially a one-year maternity cover, but there is potential for a permanent role to become available in September 2025.

The School

Rosemary Works School is a progressive, non-selective independent co-educational primary school, taking children from the age of 3 to 11 years old. The School is located on the border of Islington and Hackney, alongside the Regent's Canal. It occupies a bright 2-storey building, with two playgrounds, a ball pitch, and garden. Just a couple of minutes' walk away are the new Britannia Leisure Centre, Shoreditch Park and Rosemary Gardens which the School uses for its sporting activities. The School's proximity to the City and the centre of London provides excellent access to a vast array of other educational resources, such as the many museums and arts centres that provide excellent programmes designed for schools.

The School's vision: "Challenge, Innovate, Nurture" is delivered through a challenging and innovative education full of excitement, playfulness, curiosity and wonder, in an environment where children feel safe and secure and where pupils' personal development, happiness, resilience and a lifelong love of learning are nurtured. At Rosemary Works School, children proudly take their place in a globally connected world, armed with the knowledge and skills required to thrive in their senior schools, and the confidence, ambition, and courage to take their next steps out into the world and the successful life that awaits them.

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Application Information

A full job description and person specification are attached. Please complete the application form in full, showing how you meet the criteria outlined. Please send your completed application form via email to .

Applications will close at midday on Friday, 25th October 2024. Interviews are scheduled for the week commencing 28th October 2024, or sooner for early applicants.

We encourage early applications and reserve the right to withdraw the vacancy if a suitable candidate is found before the closing date.

Rosemary Works School is an equal opportunities employer committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.