Schule Orpund
Orpund
Class Teacher 1st/2nd Grade (70 - 80% incl. Class Teacher Function)
- 11 September 2026
- 70 – 80%
- Orpund
Job summary
Join our supportive team at Primarschule Orpund, where we inspire kids! Enjoy a vibrant work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Lead a class with clarity, compassion, and teamwork.
- Coordinate with a multi-professional team for student success.
- Promote a positive, collaborative learning culture.
Skills
- Teaching diploma for primary level and strong relational skills.
- Ability to foster trust and relationships with students.
- Innovative mindset for project-based learning.
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About the job
Portrait of the School/Institution
You want to not only teach children but also empower, accompany and inspire them – with passion, clarity and relationship-oriented leadership? Then you are right with us!
Due to a surprisingly changed personnel situation, we are looking for you for one of our four lower primary classes. Are you the committed class teacher who wants to combine educational leadership, team responsibility and cooperative work?
In Orpund, 290 children are taught in 11 primary and 4 kindergarten classes by a team of around 60 teachers. The school building is located in a preferred green area near the forest. We are a suburban community of Biel, easily and quickly accessible by bus.
Class Teacher 1st/2nd Grade (70 - 80% incl. Class Teacher Function)
Primary School Orpund
2552 Orpund
2552 Orpund
Tasks
At Primary School Orpund, we understand the class teacher as a cooperatively participative team leader of a multiprofessional class team. This means:
• You lead the class pedagogically clearly, appreciatively and bindingly
• You coordinate and moderate the multiprofessional environment (special education, specialist teachers, school social work, parents, care, etc.)
• You promote a cooperative, transparent teaching, learning and team culture in which responsibility is shared and all involved are empowered
• You are exemplary in presence and self-leadership, fostering relationship building and trust
• Your role as a teacher includes providing orientation, creating security and at the same time strengthening the autonomy of the children
Requirements
• Teaching diploma for primary level
• Relationship-oriented attitude, humour and passion for working with children, parents and in the team
• Cooperative leadership competence and the ability to convey orientation, clarity and warmth
• Joy in innovative learning forms, project-oriented work and school development topics
• Openness to reflection, supervision and continuous further development
• Educational leadership and responsibility for the class
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of innovative, differentiated teaching
• Collaboration in the multiprofessional class team
• Collaboration in the stage team
• Co-design of projects and school development processes
We Offer
• A school with heart, innovative spirit and modern infrastructure
• A supportive team and a school management with an open ear for your health and resilience
• Support from special education, specialist teachers, school social work, secretariat, day school and much more
• "OASIS" offers children opportunities from islands (school garden, children’s construction site), time-out and time-in
• Family classrooms (early support by social pedagogue)
• School building in the green, with school bees, school garden and direct access to the forest
• Promotion of well-being for teachers: yoga on Tuesday noon, swimming over lunch in the school’s own indoor pool
• Good accessibility by public transport
• Humorous, appreciative collaboration across all levels
Contact
Have we piqued your curiosity?! Do you fit with us and we with you?
We are happy to clarify your application and questions in advance by phone or offer a short immersion into our school day and school culture.
Application deadline: 30.09.2026. Incoming applications will be reviewed and processed continuously.
Barbara Eberhard-Staudt, Cycle 1 School Management
Schulhausstrasse 15, 2552 Orpund
032 328 60 30 or 079 721 91 27
beberhard@primarschule-orpund.ch
http://www.primarschule-orpund.ch
Additional Information
Start of Employment
01.11.2026
End of Employment
31.07.2027
Application Deadline
30.09.2026
Reference
40245
