Early Years Teacher

**Job type**:
Full Time, Maternity Cover

**Start date**:
January 2025

8 December 2024

**Job overview**:
**About the School - Paseo de la Habana, 204, 28036, Madrid**

1342 students | 61 nationalities | 6 sites | 1 school

Hastings School aims to provide a high-quality education within a culture of care. Founded in 1971, Hastings School was one of the first in Madrid to deliver the British National Curriculum with English as the primary language of instruction.

It is a school that is growing rapidly with a new 21st Century Sixth Form teaching block opened in September 2019 and a new Primary campus in September 2021.

As part of the Cognita Group, our staff is able to access considerable professional development opportunities and share best practice with colleagues in other schools.

Most teachers who come to Madrid choose to stay as it offers a superb quality of life with wonderful weather, culture, sport, food and people (something for everyone). You can even find skiing during the winter only one hour north. It is a great base from which to explore Spain and Europe and the cost of living is lower than the UK.

The school now has an exciting opportunity for an experienced **Early Years Teacher** to join our fantastic team. This a **Maternity Cover** position.

**About Cognita**

Cognita is a global leader in independent education. Founded in 2004, we are a growing community of 100+ schools in 16 countries - in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East - serving more than 85,000 students. Each of our schools are proudly unique, however our collective purpose is to create an environment where everyone can, ‘Thrive in a rapidly evolving world’.

At Cognita, we know every student is unique. We nurture their distinct personalities and strengths. We support them academically, socially, and emotionally, wherever they are in the world, wherever they’re starting from. And each and every one of our schools is unique too.

We protect what’s special about them, while offering them rich knowledge, opportunities, and best practices. And they get to be part of something bigger. We open their classrooms to the collective wisdom of over 100 schools in 16 countries, ensuring every child gets an education that’s, quite literally, world class.

It’s an individual approach that empowers every school, teacher and student to focus on what they do best and thrive.

**About the role**

As an Early Years Teacher, you will ensure the pupils in your care achieve their potential, keeping high quality standards of teaching at all stages. This will involves planning, teaching, class management, monitoring and evaluating. This is to ensure you implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for children using the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, and in line with the curriculum policies of the school.

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**Who we are looking for**

**Benefits at Cognita**

We offer a competitive salary and 100% fee remission for staff children and support with relocation. Support includes help finding accommodation and Spanish legalities.

**How to Apply**

Cognita Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of background.

EARLY APPLICATIONS ARE ENCOURAGED, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO INTERVIEW AND APPOINT PRIOR TO CLOSING DATE FOR THE RIGHT APPLICANT.

**About **Hastings School - Bendicion de Campos**:
**Hastings School - Bendicion de Campos**
- C/ Bendicion de Campos, 5- Madrid- 28036- Spain+34 1 825 21 52

Hastings School is a co-educational independent British school in Madrid for pupils aged 2 to 18. Part of Cognita, one of the world’s largest families of schools, Hastings School fosters academic and co-curricular excellence alongside a truly international outlook in all of its pupils. Based on five sites in the heart of Madrid, the School has almost 1000 pupils, with 60 percent from the local community and the remaining 40 percent from 40 different nationalities. The School follows the National Curriculum for England teaching in English, with students also learning the Spanish language and culture.

**Principal**

Neil Tetley

**Values and Vision**

Hastings School is one of the most popular British Schools in Madrid. It is a friendly, happy and welcoming school, with a broad and balanced curriculum and an enriching range of extra-curricular activities.

**BSO**

“Throughout the school, pupils are very well cared for and describe their pleasure of being members of a family community. The school provision for pupils with Special Educatio