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Down Hall Primary School is looking to appoint a new Learning Support and Midday Assistant to join our friendly dedicated team, to support our pupils in a variety of ways.
LSA 18.75 hrs per week (8.30am to12.15pm), MDA 5 hrs per week (12.15pm to 13.15pm) Monday to Friday, term time only.
The successful applicants will:
· Be passionate about supporting children's learning, social and emotional needs
· Be resilient and have a positive nature
· Be able to enthuse and motivate pupils
· Be a team player
· Demonstrate patience, calmness and flexibility at all times
· Have experience of working with children, ideally in a school setting
· Have good personal numeracy and literacy (minimum GCSE Grade C or equivalent in Maths and English)
We can offer you:
· A friendly school with a strong and dedicated team
· Opportunities for training to strengthen relevant career skills
· The support of knowledgeable professionals both in school and from other agencies
Visits to our school are recommended and warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office for an appointment.
All applications must use the standard Essex application form. Please note that we do not accept CV's and that the application form must be completed in full as, unfortunately, we cannot consider incomplete applications. Please also be aware that we may not be able to reply individually to every application and if you do not hear from us within seven days of the closing date, your application has not been successful on this occasion.
As part of the Safer Recruitment process the successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS police check
Information about the School
A flavour of Down Hall
From the moment you walk into our school, you will find a thriving, friendly and caring environment, and the whole school community works hard to give the children meaningful and stimulating learning experiences.
You will have a strong passion for outstanding teaching and learning, with a keenness to lead a school that is exciting in its enriched curriculum. You will be committed to an outward-looking school that further develops relations with the local community and partnerships with other schools to share best practice.
The Primary School is located at the heart of the community of Rayleigh and has a rich history of providing education to families in the town, as well as those from other neighbouring villages. In addition to receiving a broad, balanced and vocabulary rich curriculum which encourages the children to be inquisitive, independent and life-long learners, the children receive a host of extra-curriculum opportunities.
The day starts for some children in our breakfast club, where children enjoy sports, arts and crafts and tasty snacks; wrap-around care is also provided at the end of the day. Throughout the day there is a large playground, grassed play areas, trim trail and a playing field for the children to enjoy and a healthy lunch is cooked on-site.
The children throughout the school benefit from many curricular enrichment activities, from trips to Colchester Castle, Barleylands Farm, Hanningfield Reservoir to visits from The Animal Experience, as well as residential adventures in KS2. We also utilise our local area to enrich the curriculum, with lots of seasonal walks around the town, visits to Holy Trinity Church and the local library.
The school has its own outdoor swimming pool, which is used throughout the summer term to provide curriculum swimming lessons, as well as after-school fun! The children engage in on site Forest School sessions throughout the year. The school takes part in many inter-school sports events with our neighbouring schools, as well as enjoying our own annual sports day.
The school also has a successful Parent Teacher Association, that fund raise through organising fun events such as movie nights, school discos, Mothers and Father's Day sale and various fetes