School job vacancies - Reception Class Teacher, Swallowfield Primary

Swallowfield Primary is a Central Bedfordshire school and due to its location, supports pupils in both Milton Keynes and Central Beds. This is an exciting opportunity for the right teacher to join Swallowfield Primary in September 2025. We are now a full primary school (converted from a lower school) with excellent resources and facilities to ensure a great curriculum offer.

We are a supportive and friendly values school which sits at the heart of its local community in Woburn Sands. We are committed to providing high quality teaching to meet the needs of all our children, ensuring progress for all.

We want to appoint an enthusiastic, talented and creative teacher in our Early Years. The appointee will work collaboratively with the Early Years team and also whole school staff whereby the role will involve working with colleagues across the primary range.

You will need to be an excellent communicator and a person who is supportive of the whole staff team. You will be someone who is committed to equality of opportunity for all children within the school.

We understand that as a teacher, there are various pressures that come with the extensive work required for all pupils to make great progress. Therefore, it is equally important to us that we support and invest in our teachers too through quality training opportunities and consideration of all teachers’ work/life balance.

We pride ourselves on being a close-knit team that feels like a family and have been previously recognised as having good behaviour and that pupils are motivated and eager to learn.

Swallowfield Primary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for all roles.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):

• childcare disqualification
• Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)
• 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.

For further details and an application pack, please see contact details below.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please take a look at our school website for further information on our thriving school.

Contact:

Name:  Kim Brewer (Headteacher)
Telephone: 01908 582101
Email: k.brewer@swallowfieldprimary.com