Primary Teacher
Job description
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Location: Chorley
Start Date: September 2026
Contract Type: Temp to Perm
Pay Rate: Main Pay Scale
Setting: Mainstream Primary School
We are recruiting a motivated and experienced Primary Teacher for a mainstream primary school in Chorley. This temp-to-perm position starts in September 2026 and offers a fantastic pathway to a permanent role.
Key Responsibilities- Deliver creative and engaging lessons across the primary curriculum
- Support pupil attainment and wellbeing
- Implement effective behaviour management strategies
- Track progress and provide constructive feedback
- Contribute to the wider school community
- QTS with recent classroom experience
- Strong understanding of curriculum expectations
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Commitment to achieving the best outcomes for pupils
- Competitive salary on the Main Pay Scale
- Opportunity for permanent employment
- Supportive and well-structured school environment
- Access to training and professional growth
Apply now to join a supportive school in Chorley and secure your Primary Teacher role for September 2026.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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⭐ Place your QTS qualification prominently in your CV header or personal statement, as the advert lists it as the primary requirement.
📊 Quantify pupil progress outcomes: e.g. 'Raised reading attainment for 28 KS2 pupils by 1.5 sub-levels within one academic year' to demonstrate measurable impact.
🎯 Include a dedicated 'Safeguarding' line in your skills section referencing your enhanced DBS status and any child protection or prevent duty training completed.
🌐 Highlight experience with mainstream primary settings specifically, as the advert targets a mainstream school — note year groups and curriculum areas taught (e.g. KS1, KS2, EYFS).
🤝 Reference your contribution to wider school community activities (e.g. parents' evenings, school trips, extracurricular clubs) to align with the advert's emphasis on community involvement.
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- •Delivered differentiated KS2 lessons across core and foundation subjects for a class of 30 pupils, raising end-of-year reading attainment by 1.4 sub-levels on average.
- •Implemented a whole-class behaviour management framework aligned to school policy, reducing low-level disruption incidents by 35% over one term as recorded in class logs.
- •Tracked and reported on pupil progress for 30 children each half-term using assessment data, enabling targeted interventions that moved 8 pupils off the SEND monitoring list within one academic year.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Teaching Personnel's Primary Teacher vacancy in Chorley is precisely the role I have been seeking — a temp-to-perm position where strong curriculum delivery and effective behaviour management are central to success. With QTS and recent classroom experience in a mainstream primary setting, I am well placed to contribute from day one in September 2026.
My background in primary education includes planning and delivering engaging lessons across the full primary curriculum, implementing evidence-based behaviour management strategies, and using formative assessment to track pupil progress and close attainment gaps. I hold an enhanced DBS certificate and have completed child protection and prevent duty training in line with DfE statutory guidance.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How do you plan and sequence lessons to ensure full coverage of the national primary curriculum across a year group?
- ›What assessment strategies do you use to track pupil attainment and identify gaps in understanding?
- ›How do you differentiate your teaching to meet the needs of pupils with SEND within a mainstream classroom?
- ›Describe your approach to behaviour management and the strategies you have found most effective in a primary setting.
- ›How do you use formative feedback to move pupils' learning forward on a day-to-day basis?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified a pupil who was falling behind and describe the steps you took to support them.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to manage a particularly challenging behaviour in the classroom and how you resolved it.
- ›Give an example of how you have contributed to the wider school community beyond your classroom responsibilities.
- ›Tell me about a time you received critical feedback from a line manager or mentor and how you acted on it.
- ›Describe a lesson that did not go as planned and explain what you did differently as a result.
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you identified a pupil who was falling behind and describe the steps you took to support them.
Describe a situation where you had to manage a particularly challenging behaviour in the classroom and how you resolved it.