Class Teacher Maternity Cover
| Posting date: | 03 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 January 2026 |
| Location: | TORQUAY, Devon, TQ1 4DN |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 3dbb194f-3a6d-47f1-a547-be49ee72c275 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
At Torre we share a passionate commitment to learning and recognise the uniqueness of individual learners.Our vision for children to have ‘life in all its fullness’ is driven by our desire to offer the best possible education for our pupils and we achieve this with strong partnerships with parents and the local community.
We are looking to appoint an exceptional candidate who:
• Will be committed to ensuring that all children achieve the highest possible outcomes
• Can inspire and motivate children and enable them to be the best that they can be
• Has a passion to ensure high expectations for all teaching and learning, whilst ensuring outstanding pupil progress which inspires, motivates and challenges pupils
• Understands collaborative learning
• Will work in partnership with the head teacher, local governing body and the wider
community to ensure that our mission and ethos is translated into action.
What the school offers its staff
The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’ and our shared outcomes are rooted in excellence, each of our twenty schools across Somerset & Devon are committed to a strong ethos and culture. Theschools in our trust work together to ensure that we translate our vision of excellence into everyday practice.
We are a mixed Multi Academies Trust, and this leads to a full and rich curriculum where our values and ethos run deep within our schools and within our Church schools allowing everyone to flourish together.
Torre C of E Primary School is a friendly, church school. We pride ourselves on our character values and we aim to ensure that all of our pupils feel happy, secure and valued and enable them to make a worthwhile contribution as young people within their community. We believe in educating the whole child with a focus on teaching for academic excellence, character education and learning to learn – supporting our pupils to become lifelong learners. Our school provides a gateway for children to discover, explore and learn in a caring environment.
We can offer the candidate:
• An exciting an innovative Trust that will inspire and allow you to reach your full potential
• Collaborative support within Trust Improvement Groups
• Inspirational leadership with support from a Lead Practitioner and an NLE
• A Trust which cultivates pupils through character development leading to a stimulating and innovative curriculum
• Polite, happy and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning
• Working with like-minded professionals across the Trust enabling continuous professional support
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.
At Torre we share a passionate commitment to learning and recognise the uniqueness of individual learners.Our vision for children to have ‘life in all its fullness’ is driven by our desire to offer the best possible education for our pupils and we achieve this with strong partnerships with parents and the local community.
We are looking to appoint an exceptional candidate who:
• Will be committed to ensuring that all children achieve the highest possible outcomes
• Can inspire and motivate children and enable them to be the best that they can be
• Has a passion to ensure high expectations for all teaching and learning, whilst ensuring outstanding pupil progress which inspires, motivates and challenges pupils
• Understands collaborative learning
• Will work in partnership with the head teacher, local governing body and the wider
community to ensure that our mission and ethos is translated into action.
What the school offers its staff
The Academies for Character and Excellence believes in ‘Personal Growth for All’ and our shared outcomes are rooted in excellence, each of our twenty schools across Somerset & Devon are committed to a strong ethos and culture. Theschools in our trust work together to ensure that we translate our vision of excellence into everyday practice.
We are a mixed Multi Academies Trust, and this leads to a full and rich curriculum where our values and ethos run deep within our schools and within our Church schools allowing everyone to flourish together.
Torre C of E Primary School is a friendly, church school. We pride ourselves on our character values and we aim to ensure that all of our pupils feel happy, secure and valued and enable them to make a worthwhile contribution as young people within their community. We believe in educating the whole child with a focus on teaching for academic excellence, character education and learning to learn – supporting our pupils to become lifelong learners. Our school provides a gateway for children to discover, explore and learn in a caring environment.
We can offer the candidate:
• An exciting an innovative Trust that will inspire and allow you to reach your full potential
• Collaborative support within Trust Improvement Groups
• Inspirational leadership with support from a Lead Practitioner and an NLE
• A Trust which cultivates pupils through character development leading to a stimulating and innovative curriculum
• Polite, happy and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning
• Working with like-minded professionals across the Trust enabling continuous professional support
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.