Classroom Teacher
Would you like to take an opportunity and join our school on furthering our exciting journey where you will make a difference?
Yohden Primary School is a happy, safe and inclusive environment for all children and staff, where everyone is respected and valued.
We treat each other with consideration, honesty, fairness and compassion, through effective communication and positive, trusting relationships with all of our community.
The Governors of Yohden Primary School are looking to successfully appoint a hardworking, organised, reliable and highly effective practitioner to join our staff team in September 2025.
We require for September 2025, a class teacher to join our dedicated, hardworking staff, who puts the needs of our children at the forefront of their practice.
The successful candidate will become part of a supportive team and dedicated staff who have high expectations and demonstrate a caring attitude towards our children’s academic, social and personal development.
Personal attributes
The successful candidate will:
• Have recent and relevant training or experience
• Be able to consistently meet all teaching standards.
• Have recent, effective and successful teaching and learning experience of working with primary aged children.
• Have effective communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Works well with others.
• Have sustained evidence of good to outstanding practice.
• Have high expectations of learning and achievement for all children.
• Have a working knowledge and effective understanding of how to sequence and progressively build learning across a series of lessons and within a lesson.
• Have full commitment to the importance of using manipulatives to develop children’s secure mathematical knowledge and conceptual understanding
• An effective working knowledge, understanding and commitment to the importance of teaching reading
• Have high standards of behaviour and a clear ability to effectively use positive behaviour strategies.
• Be able to effectively model and extend children’s language and vocabulary.
• Have a clear willingness to respond to and act upon advice following constructive, professional dialogue.
• Ability to adapt teaching to the needs of all children including those with SEND needs and those who are more able.
Salary & Benefits
Temporary role - September 2025 - August 2026
M1 - M2
£31,650 – £33,483
Location
Yohden Primary School
Windsor Terrace
Horden
Peterlee
SR8 4HP
Supporting documents
Deadline and how to apply
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly professional individual to join our hardworking and passionate team, within our friendly, supportive and successful school.
If you would like the opportunity to visit our school please contact the school office on 0191 5863096.
All completed application forms are to be returned by email to p2733.admin@durhamlearning.net by 12noon on Thursday 15th May 2025.