Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton

Nishkam Schools are Sikh schools with a multi-faith ethos, taking a distinctive approach to faith-based education. As a high-performing multi-academy trust serving communities across five cities, our work is grounded in a virtues-led model shaped by compassion, humility, service, contentment, optimism, trust, and forgiveness. These virtues are lived daily through our teaching, leadership, and relationships.

We support pupils to explore the divine context of humanity and learn from the wisdom of different faith traditions, encouraging them to recognize their capacity to do good unconditionally. We are equally committed to supporting both pupils and staff in developing their own religious, spiritual, or human identity, approaching this work with humility, reflection, and a spirit of service.

Job Purpose

To carry out the professional duties of a teacher as circumstances may require and in accordance with the school's policies and virtues-led ethos under the direction of the head teacher. To be an effective professional who demonstrates their curriculum knowledge, able to deliver effective teaching, learning, and assessment to support the achievement of pupils.

Main Duties

Teaching

• Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach
• Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes, and pastoral arrangements as appropriate
• Be accountable for the attainment, progress, and outcomes of pupils’ you teach
• Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge, and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on these demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn
• Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; gifted and talented; EAL; disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them
• Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy including the correct use of spoken English
• If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies e.g. phonics
• Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring, and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities, and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment
• Make accurate and productive use of assessment to secure pupils’ progress
• Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback, reflect on progress, their emerging needs, and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study
• Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
• Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired as appropriate
• Participate in arrangements for assessments
• Direct and supervise the work of Teaching Assistants (TAs) and volunteers, ensuring they are effectively deployed to support pupil progress and inclusion
• Collaborate on planning with support staff, ensuring they understand the learning objectives and the specific needs of the children they are supporting