Kingswood Primary School

Kingswood Primary School is a 4 form entry split-site school based in West Norwood, South London.  Our Upper and Lower Sites are situated a short walk from each other on Gipsy Road. We are the flagship school of Gipsy Hill Federation, a National Teaching School and are rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.

This is a great place to work and provides real opportunity to progress your career. Our family of six highly inclusive primary schools are all very happy places with genuinely fantastic staff and really lovely children. The success of our Federation is due to unparalleled team work. There are multiple sources of support to draw upon and many outstanding colleagues to support you both early on and later in your career as you develop. Every week our teachers plan the curriculum together in teams – which is a great way to share expertise as well as workload and we strive to ensure that every individual teacher has full ownership of their planning to both meet the needs of their specific class cohort and reflect their own creativity and style. We are a values-driven family of schools sharply focussed on community transformation and providing our children and families with life-changing educational opportunities. Think about your skills, expertise and ambitions carefully and apply for a post with us if you like what you see. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our website detailed background information.

We are a really ambitious family of schools and are keen to recruit the very best teachers to join our fantastic team.

Although we are a really successful Federation it doesn’t mean that our work is ever finished. We’re looking for talented teachers to further enrich our organisation and develop our practice. From experience, brilliant teachers do not always realise that they are exceptional; they tend to be highly reflective and are often very modest. If you are keen to continue developing your learning and skills, we can offer outstanding opportunities both within our schools and beyond. For newly appointed NQTs who are able to join us at the point you complete your training course, we will pay full monthly salary from your start date. This means you will be paid over the summer, and can avoid the need to find interim work. You can enjoy a break and be able to set up your classroom to a high standard ahead of the staff training days and children returning to school. For NQTs who can take advantage of this we carry out your full induction into our schools in the summer term so you hit the floor sprinting in September.

We recruit centrally, but please let us know if you have a preference for a particular school(s). Our teachers often ask to transfer between schools or year groups to broaden their experience and we will always support this if possible. Your contract of employment will be issued by Lambeth or Southwark, depending on which school you are initially employed in as we are not academies. We welcome visits to our schools, please contact Sonia Lima on 020 8670 1621 to arrange this.