Primary School Class Teacher - Key Stage 1

The Arbor School

Through developmentally appropriate practice, effective planning, and ongoing assessment, the KS1 Teacher will design rich and engaging learning experiences aligned with the National Curriculum for England, fostering a love of learning through exploration and structured play. Strong partnerships with families, collaboration with colleagues, and dedication to continuous professional growth are central to this role.

The Arbor School opened in 2018 with a very different vision of what education could and should be experiential, authentic and inspired by the natural beauty, human ingenuity, and profound ecological and social challenges of the Arabian Peninsula.

The cultivation of a learning community uniquely committed to understanding and restoring the health of ecological and human communities as interconnected parts of a whole requires equal parts optimism, ambition, and humility. A fundamental belief in the inherit goodness of people and their capacity to act with empathy and compassion underscores the sense of hope that is fundamental to learning for a sustainable future. The resilience and determination to tackle challenges that have grown to global proportion is essential to finding sustainable solutions and orchestrating the social changes needed to grow them to scale. The realisation that comes from recognising that we are all students never a master drives our commitment to ignite a lifelong love of learning.

Recognising the interconnected nature of the cognitive, affective and participative domains, and their roles in shaping learning, we are pursuing a holistic approach to teaching and learning, designed to prepare learners:

• to understand the interconnected concepts of sustainability, individual and collective well-being, and environmental and social justice;
• to find purpose, meaning and joy in their interactions with the natural world and with each other, and to seek to understand people who are different to themselves; and
• to experience a sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy through their actions at home, in school and in the wider world.