Primary Lead Teacher/year Leader

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
August 2025

28 February 2025

**Job overview**:

- **Start date**:August 2025
- **Contract**:Full-time, indefinite, fully sponsored
- **Generous tax-free package including**:

- Competitive basic salary plus additional allowances - all tax-free.
- Free furnished private accommodation with all utility bills paid.
- Free return flights home each year.
- Generous paid annual leave.
- Free school places, flights, and medical insurance for children.
- Allowances for extra baggage and legal documents.
- Comprehensive private medical insurance for Qatar and your home country.
- Enhanced end-of-service gratuity package for long servers.
- Unlimited sunshine in Qatar - consistently ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest and safest countries

Our happy, supportive, and tremendously successful Primary team, certified as one of the best in the world by British Schools Overseas, are now looking for an outstanding Lead Teacher/Year Leader.

If you are a UK-qualified teacher, and with experience of delivering the National Curriculum of England - and you have a creative, positive and professional attitude - we would love to hear from you.

**About you**

As part of the Primary team, you will be responsible for planning and delivering the best quality lessons to engage and challenge your students. You will have high standards and expectations in every element of your work.

To be considered for a vacancy, you should:

- Hold a good bachelor’s degree and PGCE qualification from a reputable UK university.
- Have experience of teaching English National Curriculum.
- Have previous leadership experience, particularly leading a team
- Be keen to develop your career, supported by our world-class professional development.
- Genuinely love what you do - showing plenty of enthusiasm, creativity and energy.
- Be a real team player, always prepared to go the extra mile and support your colleagues as we reach our goal: to become _the_ best International School in the world.

**Specific Responsibilities**:

- Full time class position with enhanced PPA time to fulfil TLR responsibilities
- Work in collaboration with the wider leadership team, ensuring that agreed policies and practices are delivered consistently.
- Lead on year group planning to ensure coverage, progression and a range of learning experiences across the year group (6 classes).
- Act as a coach/mentor to support with planning and assessment within the year group.
- Take responsibility for the coordination of pastoral care of students in the year group.
- Promote effective parent partnerships through facilitating learning focused workshops and celebrations of student’s work.
- Plan and promote enrichment opportunities within the year group.
- Celebrate individual and shared successes within the year group for both staff and students to promote well-being

**About us**

QIS is one of the best international schools both in the nation of Qatar and in the wider Middle East region - we are one of a selected number of schools in the world to hold BSO’s ‘Gold Standard’. Our recent BSO report (2023) wrote:
“Qatar international School offers an excellent British education that fully meets the needs of its students: as a result, they enjoy school, learn well and thrive”.

“The students at QIS are characterised by their remarkable enthusiasm for learning and their exceptional behaviour, which unequivocally reflect their profound motivation to excel academically. Students’ behaviour is exceptional, as is their attendance in school indicating high levels of enjoyment”.

“Relationships at all levels provide a highly positive learning environment where children thrive. Adults nurture children’s personal development and well-being extremely effectively”.

Our Primary School - currently comprised of about 1,100 students - is a vibrant, fun and multicultural place of learning. It offers an engaging and warm environment, where children and staff alike are encouraged to investigate and develop their curiosity.

Across each Key Stage, our students enjoy a creative, skills based, curriculum delivered through 'I wonder' and continuous provision (EYFS), continuous provision /thematic learning (KS1), and thematic learning (KS2). Specialist lessons for Arabic, Islamic Studies, PE, French, Music, and DT form part of students’ personalised timetables, supporting further our broad and balanced curriculum offer. Our class teachers are highly trained in programmes such as Talk 4 Writing and Read-Write-Inc, which we use to enrich the children’s learning. Classes are supported by trained, qualified, and experienced Learning Support Practitioners.

**Safeguarding**

We require applicants to declare all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent'. All information provided will be treated as confidential. All applicants, (regardless of position) are requested to read QIS’s safeguarding policy, available on the school websit