Job Description

Teaching Assistant

Starting date: ASAP

Pay: Scale 3

Closing date for applications: Friday8th December 2023at 12noon

Interview date: Tuesday 12th December 2023

Thank you for taking an interest in this great opportunity.

Our school is an exciting place to work and learn. The children are at our heart and our staff work closely together as a pro-active, supportive team, with a can-do attitude.

We are a small primary school in the heart of the village of Newport, Essex. We are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic, skilled and motivated teaching assistant.

Applications are invited from Teaching Assistants who:

· Wish to make a difference to children's learning

· 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 pupils feel involved with all tasks and activities

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

You will need to be:

· Positive and enthusiastic

· Calm and flexible in your approach to the role

· Reliable, resilient and able to take initiative

Further details of the post:

1 Year Fixed term contract.

Monday to Friday: 8.45 to 3.15pm

This is term time only plus training days.

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.