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Primary Homeroom Teacher
About the Role
We are seeking an innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Primary Teacher to join our Primary School. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering a high-quality, engaging, and inclusive learning experience that inspires curiosity, builds confidence, and enables every child to achieve their full potential.
Key Responsibilities
- Curriculum Planning & Delivery: Plan and deliver engaging, challenging, and well-sequenced lessons in line with the National Curriculum for England, adapting teaching to meet the needs of all learners.
- High-Quality Teaching: Use a range of effective teaching strategies, including Do Now, modelling, questioning, scaffolding, and formative assessment, to ensure strong progress and attainment.
- Literacy & Numeracy: Develop strong foundational skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and oracy, fostering a love of learning and encouraging pupils to become confident, independent learners.
- Child-Centred Learning Environment: Create a safe, stimulating, and inclusive classroom environment that promotes curiosity, collaboration, independence, and positive attitudes towards learning.
- Assessment & Progress: Use ongoing formative and summative assessment to identify strengths and areas for development, provide targeted support, and ensure that all pupils make strong progress.
- Inclusion & Wellbeing: Provide appropriate challenge and support for all learners, including Students of Determination and pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL), while promoting positive wellbeing and behaviour.
- Parent Partnership: Establish positive and professional relationships with parents through regular communication, progress updates, meetings, and school events to strengthen the home-school partnership.
- Professional Development: Engage actively in phase and team meetings, coaching, CPD, and professional learning opportunities to continually develop teaching practice.
- Community & School Life: Contribute positively to the wider life of the school, including enrichment activities, school events, trips, assemblies, and whole-school initiatives.
- School Improvement: Support the implementation of school improvement priorities and contribute to a culture of high expectations, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Skills Description
Skills & Experience
Essential Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Education or a relevant subject.
- Teaching Qualification: Recognised teaching qualification, such as B.Ed., or equivalent.
- Experience: Minimum of 2 years of successful primary teaching experience, preferably within a British curriculum or international school.
- Curriculum Knowledge: Strong knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum for England, including effective approaches to teaching English and mathematics.
Desirable Attributes
- Experience teaching within a British international school in the UAE or UK.
Job Details
Job Title
Primary Homeroom Teacher
Job Country
United Arab Emirates
Job Role
Teacher
Employment Status
Full time
Preferred Candidate
Career Level
Mid Career - Over 2 years experience
CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL - DUBAI
We are always looking for great teachers My name is Stephen Brecken the CEO/Principal of Cambridge International School. Before any school can become great you need to put in the necessary work to build a world-class culture. We pride ourselves in having a school where staff and students come to school and feel safe, have a sense of belonging, are treated with respect and have the right to learn and flourish. They are in a school where we build people that care, where we are united in purpose, were everyone matters, where everyone succeeds and no one is left behind. We are a learning organisation where everybody sees the common purpose in creating a vision together of a better school that is infinite in its thinking. We are a community of collaborative professionals who are committed to learning from each other in order to improve student outcomes. Where our collective professionalism creates deep dialogue or even heated debate about the best ways to support our students. Cambridge International School is one of the oldest schools trusted since 1983, years of stability and a strong track record of outstanding results, being one of the oldest schools in Dubai and the GEMS organisation. We produce the highest number of teacher leaders in the GEMS network that go on to leading their own departments or schools. If you want to be an outstanding practioner or have aspirations to be a leader, this is the place it will happen. However, I am not going to sugar coat it for you, we do not accept mediocracy. It involves hard work, passion, commitment and perseverance. If you want to be an outstanding teacher, if you want to be an outstanding leader in a safe environment where staff efficacy and staff voice is our guide and inspiration. This is the place for you. If this is what you are looking for then Cambridge is the school for you, so contact us and let us know you are there. See you soon.