Class Teacher
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 June 2025 |
| Location: | Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6QQ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | c3a8c668-80cc-4d0b-93cb-1a56dd3cfb1d |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
About The Role:
Truro and Penwith Academy Trust, together with the Local Monitoring Committee of Mousehole School are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed teacher. Mousehole School is in a beautiful, harbour village setting between Penzance and Lands’ End, with excellent facilities and easy access to the most wonderful outdoor learning environments. The real strength of the school lies in the people, staff, children, parents and governors, we are proud of our school and work hard to provide a caring and stimulating environment for learning. We share an ethos which promotes high standards in academic achievement allied with a broad, stimulating, hands on curriculum. We celebrate and encourage the talents and skills of all our children. Our aim is to foster independent and curious learners who are able and willing to make a positive contribution to our community and society.
This is a job share position; you will be working closely with an experienced teacher. The person appointed will need to ensure that all pupils receive a good quality education through a programme designed to promote a stimulatingstyle of learning in a safe and healthy school environment.
About You:
You will have a child-centred approach and will provide a creative, inclusive and challenging curriculum which inspires and motivates children and supports high quality teaching and learning both indoors and out. Ideally you will have experience within the Early Years setting and Key Stage One and will share our vision and values to develop our lovely village school from September 2025. Individuals must demonstrate a significant contribution, teamwork and flexibility to small primary school life.
What the school offers its staff
Working for TPAT and Benefits
‘The Trust that Schools want to join’Ofsted - 2019
We are an inclusive and progressive Trust and believe that all children and young people should have the best possible life chances. If you share this belief, we would love you to work with us.
We care about our staff and value their skills, contribution and expertise. Our commitment to growing great people means that we support staff in their own professional growth and development and empower them through support and career opportunities. Whether you choose to work in one of our schools, or are based in our central team, you will thrive in a stimulating, friendly and diverse environment that nurtures talent and celebrates success.
If you choose to work for us, you will receive:
• A competitive salary
• National terms and conditions of employment and access to either Teachers Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye voucher scheme
• Access to CPD and career pathways to further develop your career
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides employees with free confidential advice and support on a variety of personal, family or workplace issueshhtps://www.employeeassistance.org.uk/
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About The Role:
Truro and Penwith Academy Trust, together with the Local Monitoring Committee of Mousehole School are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed teacher. Mousehole School is in a beautiful, harbour village setting between Penzance and Lands’ End, with excellent facilities and easy access to the most wonderful outdoor learning environments. The real strength of the school lies in the people, staff, children, parents and governors, we are proud of our school and work hard to provide a caring and stimulating environment for learning. We share an ethos which promotes high standards in academic achievement allied with a broad, stimulating, hands on curriculum. We celebrate and encourage the talents and skills of all our children. Our aim is to foster independent and curious learners who are able and willing to make a positive contribution to our community and society.
This is a job share position; you will be working closely with an experienced teacher. The person appointed will need to ensure that all pupils receive a good quality education through a programme designed to promote a stimulatingstyle of learning in a safe and healthy school environment.
About You:
You will have a child-centred approach and will provide a creative, inclusive and challenging curriculum which inspires and motivates children and supports high quality teaching and learning both indoors and out. Ideally you will have experience within the Early Years setting and Key Stage One and will share our vision and values to develop our lovely village school from September 2025. Individuals must demonstrate a significant contribution, teamwork and flexibility to small primary school life.
What the school offers its staff
Working for TPAT and Benefits
‘The Trust that Schools want to join’Ofsted - 2019
We are an inclusive and progressive Trust and believe that all children and young people should have the best possible life chances. If you share this belief, we would love you to work with us.
We care about our staff and value their skills, contribution and expertise. Our commitment to growing great people means that we support staff in their own professional growth and development and empower them through support and career opportunities. Whether you choose to work in one of our schools, or are based in our central team, you will thrive in a stimulating, friendly and diverse environment that nurtures talent and celebrates success.
If you choose to work for us, you will receive:
• A competitive salary
• National terms and conditions of employment and access to either Teachers Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye voucher scheme
• Access to CPD and career pathways to further develop your career
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides employees with free confidential advice and support on a variety of personal, family or workplace issueshhtps://www.employeeassistance.org.uk/
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.