EYFS Class Teacher


Company:	Teaching Vacancies
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Morden, SM4 4SJ
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	29 Sept 2026
Closing date:	16 Oct 2026

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Hatfeild Primary School — Merton | M1 (Fixed-term until 31 August 2027), to start January 2027 or sooner depending on availability.

Are you an enthusiastic, nurturing early years teacher who believes every child deserves to flourish?

Join Hatfeild Primary School, a warm, inclusive community where inclusion is everything and every child is supported to achieve their full potential. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a measurable difference in the earliest stages of children’s learning, working alongside a skilled team and our ARP for children with ASD.

About Hatfeild Primary School

Hatfeild is a maintained primary school in the London Borough of Merton and is part of the Cherrywood Federation, a partnership with Joseph Hood Primary School. We have a strong, child-centred vision: A Place to Grow. We put inclusion at the heart of everything we do and celebrate the uniqueness of every child. Our school community is guided by our FLOURISH vision and STRIVE values — promoting positive relationships, independence, high expectations and a love of learning. We have an ARP for children with a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder, and every teacher at Hatfeild is a teacher of SEND.

Our current school improvement priorities:

• Strengthening inclusive practice and graduated support across the school, led by the Inclusion Lead.

• Ensuring consistent, high-quality teaching of phonics and early reading (Read Write Inc.) across EYFS and KS1.

• Raising expectations and outcomes in early writing through targeted pedagogy and curriculum sequencing (including Drawing Club approaches).

• Embedding a coherent maths progression from Reception to Year 6 with a focus on conceptual understanding and problem solving.

• Developing high-quality continuous provision and purposeful outdoor learning to support language, independence and early assessment.

About the role:

We are looking for an EYFS Class Teacher (Reception or Nursery) on a fixed-term contract until 31 August 2027 who will create a safe, ambitious and nurturing environment where every child belongs and makes strong progress.

Key responsibilities include:

• Planning and delivering an ambitious EYFS curriculum that balances purposeful play, adult-guided learning and direct teaching, indoors and outdoors.

• Delivering high-quality early reading and phonics (Read Write Inc.) with fidelity, and developing children’s communication, language, early writing and maths.

• Using observation and proportionate assessment to identify next steps and adapt teaching for all learners.

• Working closely with the Early Years Lead, SENCO, ARP team, teaching assistants and families to implement ordinarily available provision and individual support.

• Contributing to smooth transitions between Nursery, Reception and Year 1, and participating in moderation and school improvement work.

This role reports to the Executive Head and Head of School and will involve close collaboration across the EYFS team and wider school staff.About you — the ideal candidate

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about early childhood education and committed to inclusion for all children.

• Confident in the statutory EYFS framework, play-based pedagogy and continuous provision.

• Knowledgeable about Drawing Club and how it is used in EYFS to encourage a love of writing and promote high standards.

• Experienced or keen to deliver systematic synthetic phonics (Read Write Inc.) and early reading development.

• Skilled in high-quality adult–child interaction: modelling language, questioning, scaffolding and explicitly teaching routines and independence.

• Able to adapt teaching and use assessment to secure strong progress for diverse learners, including those with SEND and children in the ARP.

• A collaborative team-player who can lead classroom adults effectively and build trusting relationships with families and external professionals.

• Warm, reflective, organised and ambitious for every child’s development, with a sense of fun.

Recent EYFS-specific CPD, experience with outdoor provision and familiarity with Special Educational Provision are desirable but not essential — we welcome enthusiastic candidates, ECT1s and ECT2s.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer

• A welcoming, inclusive school culture where every child and member of staff is valued.

• Focused professional development aligned to our improvement priorities: EYFS practice, phonics, early writing, maths progression and SEND inclusion.

• Opportunities to contribute to and shape whole-school initiatives, coaching and collaborative professional learning.

• The chance to work alongside ARP specialists and experienced colleagues committed to inclusive practice.

• A full ECT training programme in collaboration with the Wandle Teaching Hub

How to apply

Salary: M1Contract: Fixed-term until 31 August 2027Closing date: Friday 23rd October 2026

Application requirements: Completed application form

Submit applications to: Mrs Sharon Fullalove, School Business Manager

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Hatfeild Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; the successful applicant will be subject to safer recruitment and pre-employment checks.

For an informal conversation about the role or to request an application pack, please contact Mrs Sharon Fullalove (School Business Manager).

We warmly welcome visits to our school before applying.

Join us at Hatfeild and help every child to flourish.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical 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.

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