• About The Role

  • Please Note: This role is part time, 19.5 hours per week. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays only. 
     
    Inspire our young learners – Year 1 teachers, we need you! 
     
    Are you passionate about nurturing young minds and creating a stimulating learning environment?
     
    We’re on the lookout for an enthusiastic Year 1 Teacher to join our fast-growing team. This is an exciting, and unique opportunity to shape the educational journey of our youngest learners, ensuring they thrive in all learning areas.
     
    You will play a pivotal role in delivering an engaging curriculum, maintaining high standards of literacy and numeracy, and cultivating a classroom culture rooted in mutual respect and creativity.
     
    If you are committed to achieving excellence in teaching and learning and share our dedication to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, we would love to hear from you.
     
    Join us and make a lasting impact on the lives of our students!
     
    School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
    What will you do?
    • Deliver the curriculum, prepare teaching materials, and ensure high standards of literacy and student progress.
    • Establish a safe and stimulating environment, manage classroom behavior, and promote student well-being.
    • Use assessment data to monitor student progress, set targets, and plan lessons.
    • Collaborate with colleagues, participate in professional development, and communicate effectively with parents and external bodies.
    • Promote and safeguard the welfare of students, ensuring compliance with school policies and protocols.

  • About Us

  • Why should you apply 

    You will be working in a fantastic environment. 

    Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place. 

    We offer a range of staff benefits including professional development opportunities, retail discounts, flexible working options, well-being programs, and more; further details at the bottom of the page. 

    What are we looking for?
    • Qualified to bachelor’s degree level in relevant or allied subject 
    • QTS Qualified 
    • Able to work independently, collaboratively and as part of a team
    • Excellent communication skills with children, parents and carers
    • Ability to create and maintain professional working relationships
    • Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
    Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
     
    Further information
    Pre-employment checks
    Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
    Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
    Diversity and Inclusion
    We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. 
    Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
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About our School

Avanti Meadows is a brand-new primary school in Bishop’s Stortford. Surrounded by fields and new housing estates, the school is a centre for the new community developing in the north of Bishop’s Stortford. The school is rated “good” with “outstanding” in personal development.

Avanti Meadows is a non-faith, community school that embraces inclusion and diversity. “From the very start, pupils develop the deep consideration for others, self-reflection and kind relationships that are at the heart of this school.” Avanti Meadows Ofsted Inspection Report, March 2024

Our school is a vibrant, exciting place to be that is open to big ideas and creativity, all with a genuine focus on pupil and staff wellbeing.

“Through our yoga sessions, children are learning to self-regulate, they are learning that they have the ability to control themselves, to try and calm themselves down and to be in the moment” - Sara Thompson, Yoga Teacher

Our staff are inspired and passionate about their roles, the vision of the school, and providing the most fulfilling learning experience for pupils. Learning is a quest to discover each student’s unique gifts and potential, and to lay the foundation for their lifelong journey of learning.

“We have the most amazing staff members; it’s really evident that the team are very close to one another, and there is a real synergy in their approach to children’s learning.” - Sally Allan, Executive Principal