Primary PBL Educator and Homeroom Teacher — UK Years 1–2
Employer · REAL School Budapest
Primary school teacherKindergarten teacherDaytimeFull-timeBudapest
We are seeking a passionate, patient teacher of young children for UK Years 1-2 (ages 5-7). You will lead immersive, play-rich project-based learning, teaching early reading, writing, and numeracy with rigor and warmth. A core part of the role includes spending one full day a week outdoors in nature with students, regardless of weather. REAL School Budapest is an international, regenerative school with a tech-free lower primary classroom that embraces progressive education and a TEAL organizational model.
Tasks
- Teach early reading with rigor — systematic synthetic phonics, decoding, fluency, and a deep love of stories
- Teach early writing building composition, transcription, and the physical craft of handwriting
- Teach early mathematics with strong concrete-pictorial-abstract progression, building secure number sense
- Design and lead immersive, play-rich PBL experiences integrating literacy, numeracy, science, the natural world, and the arts
- Use careful observation, diagnostic assessment, and conversation to know each child as a learner
- Plan and lead the weekly excursion day, treating the outdoors as a core teaching environment
- Weave outdoor and nature-based learning into the rest of the week
- Use restorative, relationship-first approaches to behavior
- Participate actively in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to review children's work and refine practice
- Collaborate across D2R, Regeneration, Wellbeing, and Literacy programmes and with the primary team
- Lead your homeroom group, holding each child's social, emotional, and academic growth as one connected thing
- Build warm, proactive relationships with parents and caregivers