Classroom Teacher: 2027 Start, Permanent

Goodwood School; Fencourt; On-site; NZD 54,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional learning

Fruit & snacks

Staff merchandise

Coffee machine

Job summary

Goodwood School in the Waikato region invites a caring teacher to join our team for Year 3/4 or Year 5/6 (by negotiation). We emphasise warm relationships, explicit teaching, and literacy with a clear scope and sequence.

We offer high-quality professional learning, daily fresh fruit and snacks, stylish merchandise, and a proper coffee machine in a well-resourced, idyllic rural setting. The role can be full-time or 0.8 FTE for the right applicant.

Qualifications

• An understanding of explicit teaching practices and literacy with a scope-and-sequence approach.
• Ability to build warm, culturally responsive learning relationships with learners and whānau.
• Experience engaging learners with high-quality classroom management and inclusive practices.

Responsibilities

• Build effective, warm and culturally responsive learning relationships with learners, their whānau and staff.
• Engage learners through relevant, innovative and high-quality classroom management.
• Ensure every child in their class gets a great learning experience every day.
• Work collegially and collaboratively.

Skills

Classroom management

Culturally responsive teaching

Literacy instruction

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Teaching or equivalent

Job description

Are you looking for a teaching role that allows you to grow? Is a fun and caring, team environment what you are looking for? Is working with motivated, kind and respectful learners important to you? Do you prefer to take your CRT as whole days, with the opportunity to work from home when possible?

Then Goodwood is the school for you! Come and see why we are a 2026 Educational Excellence Award winner and 2025 winners of the Vitae Workplace Wellbeing Award!

One of our talented team is relocating overseas so we are looking for a caring and capable teacher to work with our amazing explorers! Classroom level Year 3 and 4 OR Year 5 and 6 (by negotiation).

We will nourish you with high quality professional learning, daily fresh fruit and snacks, stylish merchandise and a proper coffee machine! All of this in an idyllic rural setting at a very well resourced school.

This can be a full time or 0.8 position for the right applicant.

Our school is a U5 school with a roll of 430 set in park-like grounds 5 minutes from Cambridge and 15 minutes from Hamilton.

The teacher we are looking for will be able to:

• Build effective, warm and culturally responsive learning relationships with learners, their whānau and staff
• Engage learners through relevant, innovative and high quality classroom management
• Ensure EVERY child in their class gets a great learning experience every day
• Work collegially and collaboratively.

An understanding of explicit teaching practices along with the ability to teach literacy with a scope and sequence approach is an expectation. We can provide high quality professional learning opportunities in this area.