Job Description

Teaching Assistant

Starting date:September 2025

Pay: depending on experience

Newport Primary School are looking to appoint an outstanding teaching assistant with midday supervisor duties to join our team.

Applications are invited from Teaching Assistants who

· Wish to make a difference to children's learning

· Have 5 GCSEs or equivalent at grade 9 to 4 (A* to C) including English and Maths

· Are able to assist children on an individual basis but also work as a member of the team

· Have excellent communication skills, with children, colleagues and parents

· Can demonstrate good organisational skills

· Can support inclusion in the classroom, ensuring all children feel involved with all tasks and activities

· Under the direction of the teacher, support the school curriculum, including literacy and maths

· Has an understanding of SEND and behaviour needs, and be familiar with Trauma Perceptive Practice

You will need to be:

· Positive and enthusiastic

· Calm and flexible in your approach to the role

· Punctual, reliable, resilient and able to take initiative

· Able to work as part of a team

· Able to demonstrate a good standard of written and spoken English

· Committed to the developmental journey Newport Primary School is on to be a 'Good' school

· Willing to undertake professional development to improve own practice

Further details of the post:

Permanent contract

Monday to Friday 8.30am to 3.15pm

This is term time only plus 5 training days

If you have any questions about the role and would like to apply, please contact Miss Wareham or Mrs Mortimer by Friday 12th September 2025

Interviews will be held in the week commencing 15th September 2025

Information about the School

Growing together at Newport Primary School

Newport Primary School seeks to serve the children in our community, recognising that we are all unique individuals. We want all to flourish and to foster a lifelong love of learning; by providing a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum that allows the children to live out our values 'we are kind, we are resilient, we can communicate, we are creative.'

At the end of their time at Newport Primary School children will have had an education that has been inspiring and has united their academic development with their spiritual, moral and cultural development. The broad and rich curriculum they have been taught will be exciting, creative and relevant to today’s society allowing them to flourish in knowledge, skills and wisdom. Our children will be equipped with the essential skills for modern life and will have an understanding of how to look after their own and others wellbeing and mental health; their confidence and independence will be nurtured.