Year 2 Class Teacher – Abbey View Primary Academy

Overview

Salary: Main pay scale (M1 to M6 depending upon experience)

Hours: Full time

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 8th December 2025

Potential start date: January 2026- Pending satisfactory completion of all pre-employment checks

Benefits: Wellbeing Day (one well-being paid day off per academic year), Wrap Around Child Care available to staff.

Interviews week commencing: 8th December 2025-Early applications are encouraged, we reserve the right to interview strong applicants before the closing date of this advert.

About us

Abbey View Primary Academy is a thriving and dynamic academy that has gone from strength to strength, growing in both reputation and impact since opening just over five years ago. Now a fully established one form entry primary, catering for children from Nursery through to Year 6, we are excited to welcome a highly motivated and enthusiastic teacher to join our warm, inclusive, and high-achieving learning community

www.abbeyviewprimaryacademy.org

About the role

Are you ready to be part of something exciting?
Are you ready to grow together and achieve great things?
If you answered ‘yes’, then you could be one of the unique individuals who will be shaping and changing the lives of children within a stimulating and fresh context.

Does this sound like you?
• You are child-centred and put children’s best interests at the heart of your teaching
• You are an exceptional classroom practitioner; able to engage, motivate and inspire children
• You have a passion for providing opportunities that enable children to flourish and grow
• You have high aspirations of yourself and others – demonstrating tenacity and ambition
• You are committed to personal and professional development and thrive in a culture of learning
• You have enthusiasm and the qualities of a strong team member
• You embrace challenge and relish the opportunity to grow
• You embrace core moral values such as integrity, resilience and respect

If you share our belief in excellence, collaboration, and creativity, and have the drive to make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you!

In turn, we offer you:
• Children who are keen to learn
• A dedicated, enthusiastic and supportive staff team to work with
• Collaborative planning within the Academy and across the Trust
• A strong commitment to professional development through external courses and via IFPD, which provides access to high-quality internal courses, expert-led training, and leadership pathways
• Active encouragement and structured support for staff undertaking NPQs, fostering career progression and excellence in practice
• Prospects for career development across our local primary MAT

Purpose of the Role
• To facilitate and encourage learning which enables pupils to achieve the highest standards; to take ownership of and support the shared responsibility for the well-being, education and behaviour of all children
• To treat pupils and staff with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to a teacher’s professional position

Key Responsibilities include:
* Set High Expectations
* Promote good progress and outcomes
* Demonstrate good curriculum and subject knowledge
* Plan and teach well-structured lessons
* Adapt teaching for all pupils
* Make accurate and productive use of assessment
* Manage Behaviour Effectively
* Fulfil wider professional responsibilities
* Personal and professional conduct

The Job Description should be read alongside the range of professional duties of Teachers as set out in the Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document. Teachers should also have due regard to the Teacher Standards.

Job Description: To access the full Job Description please refer to the attached Recruitment Pack

About you

Person Specification: To access the full Person Specification please refer to the attached Recruitment Pack

Other information

Visits to the Academy are warmly welcomed but need to be arranged in advance. Please email: [email protected] or

call: 01494 939830 to arrange a visit.

Interested candidates should complete the online mynewterm application form, please include a personal statement that should outline your suitability for the post by referring to the job description and person specification. Please use the link provided 

https://mynewterm.com/jobs/147062/EDV-2025-AVPA-38290

In compliance with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CV’s cannot be accepted and you will need to complete an online mynewterm application form to be considered for this position.

Candidates will be notified if they have been successful for interview. Early applications are encouraged, we reserve the right to interview strong applicants before the closing date of this advert.

Abbey View Primary Academy and the Inspiring Futures Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Online searches will be completed prior to shortlisting and an enhanced DBS check will be sought from the successful candidate.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
• All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.