Job Introduction
Key Recruitment Information
Application Closing Date: Thursday 25th June- midday
Interview Date: Tuesday 30th June (tentative)
Start Date: 1st September 2026
Contract: Fixed term until 31st August 2027
FTE: 0.6 FTE, Monday, Thursday and Friday*
Salary: MPS/UPS depending on experience
Location of Role: St Francis CE Primary School, Valley Park, Chandlers Ford
*We would consider applications from candidates looking to work Monday (0.2), Thursday & Friday (0.4) or all three days (0.6).
Job/Person Summary
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and creative teacher to join our teaching team as a temporary member of staff. This post is fixed term for one year, as the number of classes in our school is reducing.This is a classroom teacher role, including planning, marking and subject leadership (commensurate to the FTE). Please see the attached job description and full advert copy for more details.
The successful candidate should have proven successful experience of teaching in Key Stage 1 and a passion for ensuring that each individual child flourishes not just academically, but also socially, emotionally and spiritually. Our Key Stage 1 classes are taught as mixed year groups (classes combine pupils from Year 1 and Year 2). Experience teaching mixed groups would be helpful, but is not required.
About St Francis CE Primary School
Our vision is a community characterised by a deep passion and belief for everyone to thrive, rooted in our Christian ethos of belonging. Through sharing in God’s love, we enable all to grow, learn and flourish as individuals, becoming role models for our Christian values within our community and equipping us to follow and lead in the light of God through our journey within and beyond our school to enrich ours, and others’ lives.
Our School Values
Our whole school Christian values are important to us and weave throughout our daily lives, in play and learning: Together in God’s love we care, trust and respect.
Our School Charter
1. Always try your best
2. Be caring, kind and helpful to others
3. Look after everything at school
4. Show good manners
5. Stay safe
6. Tell an adult if you’re unhappy
It is our aim that St Francis CE Primary School provides a warm, caring environment for all children to become successful learners. We therefore expect high standards of behaviour to be maintained by all. Underpinning this expectation is our School Charter setting out the rules, which direct the way everyone conducts themselves at St Francis School.
Our Curriculum
At St Francis all staff work hard to ensure that children are encouraged, supported and challenged to ensure that they can reach their ful potential, without any ceiling placed on them, academically but also socially, morally and spiritually.
Through our curriculum we aim to:
Inspire all learners through a broad curriculum rooted in our Christian values, strong SMSC culture and the National Curriculum, that offers a wide variety of engaging and dynamic opportunities, experiences, hooks and rich texts, and motivates children to want to learn more.
Help children to live well together through promoting tolerance and respect throughout all areas of daily school life, ensuring difference is valued and nurtured, to enable all within our community to live well together, both in school and with those in our wider communities.
Enable everyone to improve themselves through committing appropriate support and challenge to enable all children to reach high standards of literacy and numeracy skills, that they transfer across a variety of subjects, contexts and their curriculum, through effective and high-quality teaching. To ensure our curriculum is planned carefully to build upon pupils’ prior learning and experiences so all future learning is purposeful and relevant. Above all of this, it is fundamental to our St Francis curriculum that there is an explicit focus on being well, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually.
Secure the future for each individual by nurturing and developing effective learning habits for all our pupils to grow to be well-rounded, successful role models within our school and beyond. To provide challenge and learning opportunities to prepare our children to become responsible, confident and resilient learners, but also citizens, who look after our natural world, achieve economic well-being and innovate for the future.
St Francis CE Primary and Hampshire CountyCouncil are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that allour recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates willbe subject to DBS checks along with other relevant employment checks.
