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Upper Key Stage 2 Class Teacher

Job details
Posting date: 06 June 2026
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 June 2026
Location: Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 2SG
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 5d922281-e140-4b78-9c8f-dab356adb2a4

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Governors wish to appoint a qualified enthusiastic and talented teacher to join our successful and welcoming Key Stage 2 team.

Are you a dedicated teacher striving for excellence?

Can you lead, motivate and inspire learning?

Are you creative in your approach?

Are you a practising Christian or sympathetic to the Christian Ethos?

Are you committed to working with parents and the wider community?

Is your practice rooted in the belief that every child can learn and thrive when their holistic needs (academic, emotional, social) are met?

Are you able to devise innovative and adaptable teaching strategies to meet the needs of different learning styles at upper KS2?

Do you explicitly teach and model the belief that effort and persistence lead to mastery, encouraging children to embrace challenges and learn from mistakes?

As an Attachment Aware Trauma Informed school, are you open, empathetic and able to support learners with wide and varying needs?

Do you have a proven record at driving high standards in upper KS2?

If you are, then this is the post for you!

What the school offers its staff

• A small local and excellent school where you get to know and teach every child

• A well-established supportive school close to Kingston town centre and station

• A commitment to professional development, career progression and work life balance

• Exceptionally well behaved, polite and engaged pupils

• The opportunity to be part of an inspirational, growing and dynamic organisation with an experienced, welcoming and talented staff team

• A supportive senior management team and wider staff body

• An exciting opportunity to develop a curriculum to meet the needs of a growing diverse, inclusive, vibrant local community

Additional benefits include onsite parking, free refreshments, discounted leisure facilities and health incentives through well planned weekly wellbeing sessions.

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.

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