PPA Cover/Year 1 Class Teacher

PPA Cover Teacher | January 2025


Location: Hounslow


Full-time, 5 days/week


Salary: M1 Outer London £34541 - UPS3 Outer London £51179



Are you an inspirational, energetic, and flexible PPA Cover Teacher looking to work in an innovative, aspirational primary school? If so, we want to hear from you!


Teach Plus are currently working with a 3-form entry, ‘Good' primary school who are seeking a PPA Cover Teacher to start in January 2025.


The school is a welcoming, supportive and friendly primary school that has the child's best interests at heart.

They pride themselves on being a creative, knowledgeable primary school where every child is encouraged to be confident, creative and have strong problem-solving skills.


The senior leadership team set high expectations, resulting in teachers sharing leader's ambitions for all pupils to achieve their full potential.

Their curriculum is ambitious and engaging for all pupils, with careful adjustments made to support all pupils, including those with SEND.



As a PPA Cover Teacher you will be required to:



  • Teach classes during PPA or other release sessions across the school from Nursery to Year 6

  • Understand and be able to use a range of strategies to deal with classroom behaviour as a whole and individual behavioural needs; to promote effective behaviour.

  • Provide a calm, constructive working environment to enable the pupils to carry out the planned work/activities in the absence of the class teacher.

  • Promote the inclusion of all pupils.

  • Assess, monitor, record and report on the subjects of lessons taught, feeding back to the class teacher

  • Mark any completed work in accordance with the marking policy.

  • Deal with any immediate problems or emergencies within the class, according to the school's policies and procedures.



The ideal candidate for the PPA Cover Teacher role will have



  • Strong knowledge of the UK National Curriculum

  • Experience teaching in primary schools in the UK

  • A flexible, can-do attitude and be able to adapt quickly to new environments

  • A strong work ethic who is willing to commit for at least one academic year

  • UK recognized Teaching Qualification with QTS

  • Enhanced DBS Certificate with the Update Service

  • Right to work in the UK



Next steps:


If this PPA Cover Teacher position sounds of interest, or you would like to find out more information, please contact Carly at Teach Plus


Alternatively, please click ‘apply' and we will get back to you as soon as possible.


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Teach Plus is a 5 star, Google rated, London based education recruitment agency.

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With over 17 years' experience working in education, we have strong, long-lasting relationships with primary schools across London.


We are able to offer a range of opportunities including short term, long term and permanent positions within education as well as a high volume of daily supply work.




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