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Job Ref No. ECC2699-85 Position Type: Teacher Pay Range: MPS/UPS

Position Start Date: 13/04/2026 Contract Type: Full-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 19/01/2026 Midday Date of Interviews: TBA

We are looking for an experienced year 4 teacher to work at Witham Oaks Academy in Witham.

Our Trust has a desire to support and develop practitioners and ensure working in education is fulfilling, Inspires MAT are seeking an innovative practitioner to work at Witham Oaks Academy who will further enhance the learning experience for our children and help them develop as well-rounded individuals.

We are a professional and collaborative learning community with a culture of high expectations - both academic achievement and personal and social development. We offer a curriculum that is exciting, vibrant and promotes a love of learning and a dedicated, passionate and friendly staff but most importantly amazing children.

Quotes from our children regarding what they are looking for:

• 'A great sense of humour'
• Enthusiastic about us and what we are capable of'
• 'Intelligent and knowledgeable'
• 'Challenges us each day, in every subject'
• 'Breaks our learning down into small parts that help us understand'

Successful candidates will:

• Be up to date with current practice and national curriculum and assessment expectations
• Be highly motivated and have consistently high expectations of themselves and others
• Be committed to high standards of learning, teaching and behaviour
• Be a good communicator and highly organized individual
• Be an outstanding, skilled classroom practitioner
• Have an industrious attitude to their role

We can offer you:

• Engaging and enthusiastic pupils who will make you smile each day
• A commitment to personal professional development which is tangible
• A supportive school team that understands and fosters well-being
• The opportunity to develop leadership skills and a bespoke career pathway
• A stimulating and enjoyable working environment where each day is engaging and thoroughly enjoyable

Witham Oaks Academy is driven by our desire to offer memorable learning experiences stepped in real-life contexts that excite, promote and sustain our children's interests to foster their natural curiosity. This real-world context approach to learning means pupils are provided with experiences not just lessons. They see that there is relevance and context to their learning.

Through the 'Big Ideas' of our curriculum, children will acquire interconnected knowledge and skills that are relevant and appropriate, linking with real world experiences and creating an enjoyment of learning, an appetite to know more and an inherent capacity to learn for a successful and fulfilling life.

We value the partnership that exists between our parents, children and staff and strongly believe that by working together we ensure the children at our school experience the best possible start in life.

Visits to Witham Oaks Academy are warmly welcomed and encouraged; please contact the school on 01376 513322 to arrange an appointment.

Inspires MAT are committed to:

• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
• Promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs;

and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment. It is recognised that this can only be achieved through sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated employees who are suited to, and fulfilled in the roles they undertake.

The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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Michelle Smith
Spa Road, Witham
Essex, CM8 1NA Telephone: 01376 518190
Email: clairebrazier@inspiresmat.co.uk

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