Class Teacher – Maternity Cover

🏫 Ongar Primary School
📍 Essex⏱ Full Time, Temporary
📅 Posted Today📅 Closes 7 Jun 2026🔗 Via Tes Jobs
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Ongar Primary is a busy, thriving and nurturing Primary School. Learning is fun, stimulating and enriching. All that we do is based on our three rights: Respect, Safety and Learning. We are proud of the positive relationships in our school community and work together to help every child be a confident, resilient, and happy life-long learner. We need another team member with that little bit of sparkle, that will help our children thrive and flourish. Visits are actively encouraged and warmly welcomed. Ongar Primary School is part of the Bridge Academy Trust: a collegiate and collaborative Trust, where, first and foremost, each school is a place of (high quality) learning, where young people ENJOY, ENRICH, ACHIEVE & ASPIRE. The core purpose is to provide high quality continuity of every child’s journey through education from 3 to 19, with a community and school-led school improvement approach and long-term sustainable strategy. Bridge Academy Trust is committed to its people strategy and prioritises staff’s development to ensure they too can enjoy, enrich, achieve and aspire. About the role: Are you looking for an exciting new role? Our Year 5 teacher is embarking on her next challenge as a new mum, so we need someone just as wonderful to cover her maternity leave. The post is full time initially for one year. Ideally in upper Key Stage 2 but we can be flexible for the right candidate. It’s a great opportunity to join our friendly and supportive team, with a great class of just 26 children and a full time LSA. We are looking for an inspirational, dynamic, and creative teacher. The role will provide you with the opportunity to share and develop great practice within a vibrant and supportive school. For a more experienced candidate there will be opportunities to develop leadership skills and contribute to our continued school development. This is an exciting opportunity for us to support an aspiring leader. This position could be suitable for both experienced and

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