Class Teacher

What skills and experience we're looking for?

We are looking for an imaginative, experienced class teacher to work at our friendly and welcoming school in the heart of Camberwell, South London.

We value a creative, innovative and proactive approach to learning, and welcome those who can bring their own unique ideas to our enthusiastic and hardworking team.

We are looking for a highly effective classroom practitioner who will:

Be an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher who has the drive to motivate children to achieve high standards.
Be able to deliver a challenging and exciting curriculum.
Be able to successfully teach children from a range of backgrounds and with differing abilities.

What we offer our staff?

Ringfenced professional development time in addition to your PPA allowance.
A strong staff team who do everything possible to ensure our children succeed.
A positive and caring culture.
A forward thinking, committed and skilled team of professionals to learn alongside.
A warm, collegiate and supportive environment in which to develop your career.
A modern, well resourced, vibrant working environment.
Leadership who respect work/life balance

Further details about the role

We encourage a school visit.

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Equalities, diversity & inclusion

The Charter Schools Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. References will be sought and the successful applicant will need to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)

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The Charter Schools Educational Trust is committed to equality and diversity, and we actively welcome and encourage applications from communities who tend to be under-represented. We are committed to continuous improvement in how representative we are of our local communities, including gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and all other aspects of diversity.

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We are looking for confident and motivated individuals who are keen to join our exceptional team and further develop our work that is consistently underpinned by our core mission to inspire and nurture children and young people in South London to excel, through education that transforms lives and strengthens our diverse communities.

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How To Apply

How to apply

Send your completed application to recruitment@lyndhurst.southwark.sch.uk

How to apply

Send your completed application to recruitment@lyndhurst.southwark.sch.uk

An awesome autumn bounty of home-grown carrots at Gardening Club! https://t.co/KxpEYvFr8P

Tomorrow we have our first coffee morning of the year! Come and have an informal chat with Mr Turner all about maths. 9:00 in the school library. https://t.co/ufJfrZwRPH

Reminder that today we have our parent curriculum meetings. We have two meetings you can choose from. The first is at 3:45 and the second is at 5:30. They will be held in one of your child’s year group classrooms.

Year 4 found some mysterious metal objects in the Mr Joyce’s Garden. They are investigating what happened. Have you seen any clues? https://t.co/vOIHl1PkAl

Check out our brand new lunch time setup, with our new catering company Olive Dinning Ltd. We are so pleased with how it looks and the children have loved the changes! https://t.co/n9l7M0WGga

Welcome back! It was great to see so many smiling faces back in school today. We can’t wait for another fantastic year! https://t.co/7oRHCKUDlP

The staff have been busily preparing for the start of the new academic year. We can’t wait to get going… see you all Monday! https://t.co/dNRYzZ2u1k

A great read, written by one of our parents! https://t.co/V9KlGAernH

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS. A massive congratulations to our boys football team who won their LSPSF league. They worked so well together as a team all season long, always showing a brilliant attitude and scoring over 70 goals! What an amazing achievement! https://t.co/cvdegWcRye

That’s it for another year! What an amazing year it has been, full of exciting changes and improvements. A huge thank you to all of our families for their support throughout the year and a massive well done to all of the children. We hope you all have a lovely summer! https://t.co/2bdZ3sNVCs

A wonderful whole school assembly to say goodbye to our departing Year 6 children. They have worked so incredibly hard this year! A huge well done to all of them for their resilience and amazing attitude to learning. It has been a fabulous year for them! Good luck for secondary. https://t.co/WWx17ZVGKR

As part of their transition to secondary school, Year 6 took part in a street awareness course, designed to empower children with the knowledge of how to be street safe, focusing on awareness of themselves, others and the surroundings. Thank you @EDCoach_Carter for the sessions! https://t.co/Ggt8OZvGdR

Year 1 have been learning cutting skills and taste testing fruit in the build up to making their own smoothies. They were a big hit with everyone! https://t.co/JorwcjycrS

A huge well done to all of our runners in last week’s @Charter_Trust Cross Country event. A special shout out to these 6 children, who were our medal winners. We were thrilled to finish with 2 gold, 2 silver & 2 bronze! https://t.co/WmHmqTXMR3

Enjoying the fruits (and vegetables) of our labours! The final Gardening Club before the summer break was a salad sensation. https://t.co/rfLvv81FaZ

Reception had a lovely day at the Horniman; Lego Dino exhibition, aquarium, animals – living and stuffed and a visit to the wonderful butterfly house to round off our learning around minibeasts. As always the best bit for the kids was the picnic! https://t.co/H1oxF2WzZA

RT @SWellsschool: We are offering a summer #theatre camp in the holidays with West End performers…and it’s going to be fab. Singing, dancin…

RT @Steven_Berryman: What an atmosphere at @LyndhurstSE5 for their Playground Prom! @CharterArts_ https://t.co/zHHmWkzMrL

RT @MrTeacherT: If you know, you know! Todays the day and I can’t wait! https://t.co/5B7YVxMtzd

A very sad day for Lyndhurst as we say goodbye to Mr Hendrick, who has supported so many children and staff for 15 years! Lyndhurst is forever in your debt! We wish you all the best for the future and hope you have a well earned rest! https://t.co/k8PyiGf5lt https://t.co/SPjH2pXtaj

An absolutely amazing Playground Proms last night… some are even saying it was the best ever. The musical talent on show was incredible. A huge well done to all of the children!Thank you to Mr Chambers, Mr Valentine and the rest of the music team for making the magic happen! https://t.co/EAN0LznS6V

The day we’ve all been waiting for has finally come… Playground Proms! See you tonight! Make sure you don’t miss out. https://t.co/jydCkY49Eq

Friends of Lyndhurst are excited to announce the Parents Vs Teachers 5-a-side football fundraiser. If you are interested in playing, join the parents football team WhatsApp group (link can be found in last week’s scoop - 11/7/23) Save the date, as it promises to be a great event! https://t.co/HsIQOpWikv

Year 5 & 6 loved learning how to play pétanque today as part of our school French Day and who better to teach them than the current Boules d’Or champion! https://t.co/2ixVycmOnJ

What a wonderful afternoon at the inaugural @Charter_Trust Cross Country event! It’s been a long time coming after many cancellations, but it was well worth the wait. Thank you so much to @Dulwichhamlet for hosting such a brilliant event. https://t.co/cg3S70ThRw

What a fantastic way to finish what has been a brilliant week. Visiting Corfe castle in the glorious sunshine, learning all about its rich history! https://t.co/hZO8Rmfhoy

A once in a lifetime opportunity for the children today, coasteering on dancing ledge! They absolutely loved it! https://t.co/4jMfkwDm8c

What a beautiful evening eating fish & chips in sunny Swanage, followed by a spot of crabbing! https://t.co/yMheAcoUDu

A fabulous day spent on the beach. The children absolutely loved it! They did jumbo paddle boarding, body boarding, water games and an obstacle course. https://t.co/bTvciKD2YZ

A wonderful day spent in the woods. The children built their own shelters using tarps. They loved doing archery and they learnt how to light a fire using flint & steel and a bow drill! https://t.co/ahvjTFVsys

A great first day of Year 6 School Journey. We had a good drive down to Swanage and then lots of fun with archery tag and mini olympics in the evening! https://t.co/VesPiEJk90

A huge well done to all of the Year 6 team- children and staff for their amazing production of The Lion King Jr. From the costumes to the face paints to the singing and dancing, it was most definitely a show we will never forget. https://t.co/XSf0skh9s9

And we’re off! Stay tuned this week for all things School Journey. https://t.co/awxh88JlvR

A brilliant day yesterday at the @Charter_Trust conference! A huge thank you to everyone who led the amazing sessions; our staff took so much from them. It was brilliant to network with so many highly experienced staff from our wonderful family of schools. #charterconference https://t.co/wdE8Cg0qzF

Two of the highlights of the day were the truly inspiring keynote speeches by @jeffreykboakye on exploring identity: on lived experiences and social justice and @daisychristo on exploring the evidence in favour of a #knowledge-rich curriculum and what this means for assessment. https://t.co/y85nv4KS6J

Year 6 had a special visitor today to wish them luck for their Lion King performance. Past student, Quincy Miller Cole who played Simba at the West End gave them a lot of great advice and even showed them some expert lion moves! https://t.co/21mM6a7B5e

LYNDHURST CARNIVAL IS TOMORROW! It promises to be a wonderful, fun-filled afternoon. Find all of the information you need here! Be sure to come along. You wouldn’t want to miss out on all the excitement! https://t.co/n2figix66f

Rio Grande had a fun morning making puppets and sets for Art Week. They wrote and performed their stories for the whole class, very entertaining! https://t.co/0yU7KOLavt

A sneak peak at our Year 6 Production of The Lion King Jr. Scan the QR code here to secure your tickets or find the link on our link tree in our bio. Don’t miss out on what promises to be a purrr-fect show! https://t.co/Uh2T91f89z

Today we had a whole school assembly to celebrate Windrush Day. We learned all about the Windrush and focused on Sam King, who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush and worked in our local area! https://t.co/iJjGlPLCvv

Year 2 discussed what Pride is about and what it means to be proud of who you are! We made bunting to represent being unique. https://t.co/nOHldqhVlT

Amazon Class have made bunting during Pride week to celebrate our families, thinking about what makes us special and unique and celebrating our similarities and differences. https://t.co/tvkZkfip5r

RT @Alleyns_Junior: A packed house for a fantastic event with @johngreenart. Really interesting to hear John’s ‘origin story’ and some incr…

@Alleyns_Junior @johngreenart @BessemerGrange @HPAEastDulwich @PrimaryRobert @MacmillanKidsUK @villagebooksdul Thank you so much for hosting. A big thank you to @johngreenart our children loved it!

Sports Day 2023 was a great success. It was a fun-filled day full of running, throwing, catching and plenty more! The talent on show was exceptional. A huge well done to our winners… Green Team! https://t.co/SPG6PkIbLz

After a fabulous performance on Camberwell Green last Saturday, our combined school choirs are singing again at @RuskinParkSE5 this Saturday! They'll be performing in the band stand at 12pm to 12.40pm - please come and have a listen if you're around. https://t.co/zNkGOqWeI1

A huge thank you to Nas from The London Fire Brigade for our informative talk about fire safety. The children took so much from the session; it is crucial they receive this information from a young age. https://t.co/X2lZHbjwQY

Massive congratulations to our very own Ms McKenna for achieving CENMAC TA of the month this month for all the amazing work she has put into using the new AAC system since it was issued. https://t.co/QJIeKD6mA1

Happy Pride month! This week, we will be celebrating Pride at Lyndhurst by talking about what makes us and our families unique. https://t.co/X30gjnh0Vg

Remember to support our Year 5&6 Choir on Camberwell Green this Saturday at 3pm! It's the start of @CamberwellArts Festival and you can even join in some of the music hall songs being performed by @ORGAN_ised & @CamberwellChoir. It'll be fun and there's cakes available! https://t.co/BFsKv6G0aT

Year 5 visited the Globe Theatre, they learnt more about their literacy play The Tempest and got to try out their acting skills with professional actors! https://t.co/xBBdEmntSU

We are very excited to announce that we have our pizza oven built! We can’t wait to use it for the first time tonight at International Evening. Thank you so much to our amazing parents that helped put it together! https://t.co/gtRqynYDiq

A wonderful afternoon yesterday as we hosted a Year 3 & 4 girls football tournament. The girls absolutely loved it and it was a brilliant learning experience for them. Thanks @TheBelham and @GGPrimarySchool for coming over to us! https://t.co/UrOoyoH24K

Orinoco Class have had lots of fun creating a music hall-style song with @ORGAN_ised for our Year 5&6 Choir to sing this Sat @CamberwellArts Fest! It's about Camberwell - and very funny! Here's a sneak preview of the music... https://t.co/hvkPcEk7sg

We cannot wait for International Evening this Friday. It is one of the highlights of the school year. Be sure to come along, so that you don’t miss out on what promises to be a wonderful, celebratory event. Check out this poster for all of the information you need. See you there! https://t.co/L2gXyFWeiY

Year 2 have been working hard on their Ancient Egypt topic, creating incredible clay cat sculptures and publishing their own Ancient Egyptian myths! https://t.co/Qwacz5lAsO

@ORGAN_ised (AKA Mr Valentine) bought some kazoos for our Year 5&6 choir performance @CamberwellArts Festival opening day! They'll be singing on Sat 10th at 3pm in the music tent with @CamberwellChoir. The children had a play in advance - listen if you dare! https://t.co/mTzru84t5P

RT @cassiebuchanann: Do we have any local parents or generally lovely people who can help? We rely on these flower show (free) plants to d…

We need your help today! We have an opportunity to pick up more ex-Chelsea plants from Morden Hall today 4/5.30. Car essential! If you can help, please contact Mrs Jarman on bjarman@lyndhurst.southwark.sch.uk or DM us on Twitter. https://t.co/lv9i97myrT

Year 6 completed their Sponsored Challenge today to raise money for school journey. They ran the distance from Lyndhurst to Land&Wave centre in Swanage, where our school journey will be! Each child completed 50 laps of the MUGA. Well done Year 6! Scan the QR code here to donate! https://t.co/XI9LJbB6de

Denmark Hill Station has made it into the semi-finals! Follow this link to vote to send them through to the final. Voting closes tonight at midnight! https://t.co/z15weVki2G https://t.co/DCnCJg3MTr

Gardening club have been making some beautiful cane toppers for our bamboo bean sticks. https://t.co/k01yqIoqAr

In DT, Year 3 applied all of the skills they learnt during their castles unit to build these paper castles. https://t.co/P3AixvvMYk

RT @CDPS_Southwark: Fab collaboration again from our family of schools - thank you for hosting @LyndhurstSE5 🙌

We loved hosting the 2023 @Charter_Trust Dance Festival at Lyndhurst. The standard of dance was exceptional. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and we are already looking forward to next year. Thank you so much for coming @TheBelham @CDPS_Southwark @Dulwichhamlet https://t.co/HIJ1yVvGlA

Vote for Denmark Hill in the World Cup of Stations! Be quick as the voting closes tonight at midnight. Follow this link to vote: https://t.co/1CWmwD0qNX https://t.co/pZjoUDJztr

Preparations are underway for our @Charter_Trust dance festival. We can’t wait to get going! https://t.co/HU14FncMVd

A sea of green today in Lyndhurst as we took part in Wear it Green Day as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. https://t.co/nA0Qqyur88

RT @Alleyns_Junior: Thank you to @Kevin_Fong for a fascinating lecture to our Year 5 children on 'Back to the Moon'. Some great questions f…

A huge thank you to @Kevin_Fong for an amazing lecture on 'Back to the Moon'. Our children loved it! Thank you very much @Alleyns_Junior for having us and for being brilliant hosts as always. https://t.co/H4M070ahX9

@Alleyns_Junior @Kevin_Fong @heberschool @BessemerGrange @HPAEastDulwich It was brilliant. Our children loved it!

We’re delighted that so many children come to our school choirs voluntarily at lunchtimes. We’ve created some choir lanyards to help with admin (they have nifty QR codes) and to look snazzy for our forthcoming choir trips! https://t.co/NOQhkN2c16

Gardening club were thinning out the radishes last week, which resulted in some welcome bounty! https://t.co/cbWC6OYvZD

This week, Year 5 have been building truss bridges out of spaghetti as part of their DT project. Creating their bridges took focus, resilience and excellent team work! https://t.co/IdPp7Kd32O

Today we had our whole school Mental Health Week assembly, where we discussed mental health, physical health and what anxiety is. We spoke about strategies that we can use to improve our own mental health and manage our anxiety. https://t.co/QQhlh23bR7

Good luck to all of our Year 2 children who started their SATs today! We know you have worked so hard. You’ll do great! https://t.co/VuOEF1Brpi

This week Lyndhurst is talking about anxiety as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. https://t.co/ow3K9mUAUg

Another great ‘it takes a village super club’. Another example of our brilliant community supporting each other. https://t.co/ha8JBMtdRi

If you are free tomorrow morning, come and support our boys’ football team in their final match of the season. It is a huge game, as if they win, they move to top of the league. The match is Lyndhurst vs Wyvil and it kicks off at 10.15 at Rosendale Playing Fields, Rosendale Road.

A HUGE well done to our Year 6 children for completing their SATs. They worked so hard and tried their absolute best. We are so proud of them! https://t.co/nKfmNmJssA

Learning was quite literally bread and butter for Reception last week! Following on from reading The Little Red Hen, the children got to help mix, knead and shape bread rolls and flatbreads – and got a good workout shaking and churning cream to make butter. Delicious! https://t.co/6Jm0Xuy9My

Wishing all our Year 6 children the very best for their SATs this week. We know you’ve worked super hard and will try your very best. Whatever the outcome, we are so proud of you! Don’t forget SATs breakfast starts at 8:30. See you then! https://t.co/2TFTtOjdNv

The Year 6 mystery raffle was a great success! Thank you to everyone who collected and donated prizes and thank you for buying tickets and supporting our Year 6s! For those who weren’t here to collect their prize, you can get it from the office next week. https://t.co/jWFqwKZJ0T

For their STEAM week robotics workshop, Year 1 loved programming algorithms to get robotic cars to move. https://t.co/5tWPx7wjrf https://t.co/D92N1abl1q

Volga Class enthusiastically created their own classrooms of the future as part of STEAM week. Check them out! https://t.co/UUlF54YfAU

Yesterday Orinoco visited the wildlife centre and found lots of mini beasts. The instructor said she was blown away by Lyndhurst’s attitude and enthusiasm! https://t.co/i4HGMJ23zD

Year 1 have been inspired by the work of Alfred Wallis to create their own coastal paintings. Check them out! https://t.co/Jlpa8zd551

Check out some of the amazing prizes we have for the Year 6 raffle. The draw is tomorrow after school, so today and tomorrow are your last chances to buy tickets. Tickets are on sale after school today for 50p a ticket or £2.50 per strip. We are accepting contactless payments. https://t.co/IRDqpKi5DU

We are very excited to unveil our brand new, fully stocked PE store! It is great to have so much high quality equipment ready to be used in our PE lessons. https://t.co/uWDoAIPSig

What a wonderful afternoon celebrating Eid al-Fitr! It was lovely to see so many of our families enjoying food, drinks and great company. Thank you so much to all who organised this fantastic event. https://t.co/k2H7Jv87Zo

A fantastic afternoon at our girls’ football tournament. The standard of football was exceptional! Thank you @CDResearchSch and @TheBelham for coming over to us. https://t.co/9u8pVZvN7W

A very special Eid assembly led by some of our children and parents who celebrate Eid. The whole school found out all about how Eid is celebrated by Muslim families. https://t.co/1ke3f3VAHW

We warmly invite all our Lyndhurst families to share in our Eid celebration on Friday 28th April at 3.30 in the school playground. https://t.co/ICGDu2n56d

Thank you so much @TheBelham , @Dulwichhamlet and @AESparkles for our much needed treats the past couple of days. It's wonderful to be part of such a caring family of schools. @Charter_Trust

Eid Mubarak to all our Lyndhurst families who are celebrating. https://t.co/TMPwO6lTCG

Years 1-4 enjoyed a great Robotics workshop with @hyetteducation as part of our futuristic STEAM week today. All children built their robots out of Lego which then moved using coding and sensors. https://t.co/hKybEeHEfZ https://t.co/03QhDsvPt5

_*STEAM WEEK:The Future Lyndhurst 2099! *_has taken off brilliantly at Lyndhurst. Year 5&6 enjoyed a very exciting workshop today where they had the opportunity to program and fly drones. These will most definitely be part of our daily lives in the future! https://t.co/b71S7M15S8 https://t.co/u4f2fwZ3u3

You don’t want to miss this! The Book Week podcast is now live. Click this link to have a listen. https://t.co/khOOEfpuu2 https://t.co/ZL7dGIkxHc

Year 2 created some beautiful detailed birds’ nest watercolour drawings. They used #susanogilvynests book to inspire then and some real nests to observe the colours and textures. https://t.co/6f6KKEcxII

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