Teaching Assistant - Early Years/Key Stage 1
Somerhill
Tonbridge, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- £9.50 per hour (£10.60 including holiday pay)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- October, 2019
- Apply by:
- 22 September 2019
Job overview
Full Time Early Years Teaching Assistant, Somerhill Pre-Prep
The Schools At Somerhill, is a thriving educational establishment of some 600 pupils based in a magnificent Jacobean mansion set in 150 acres of land on the outskirts of Tonbridge. We are looking to appoint a full time Early Years Teaching Assistant for Somerhill Pre-Prep for October, 2019.
Somerhill Pre-Prep is one of the three Schools at Somerhill. It is a co-educational school, comprising of an Early Years department and Key Stage 1 department. There are approximately 200 pupils, ranging in age from rising 3 to 7 years. There are currently just over 30 full and part-time staff, including Learning Support Assistants and specialist teachers. Somerhill Pre-Prep provides families the opportunity to start their child’s learning in a school environment prior to statutory school age. Our Early Years department comprises of two Pre-School classes, offering a mixed age range environment for Rising 3 and Rising 4 year olds and three Reception classes. There are three Year 1 and three Year 2 classes. We are a mixed ability school and pride ourselves on developing each child to their full potential, both academically and socially.
Somerhill Pre-Prep is an IAPS school and the majority of our children continue their learning at one of the two Somerhill prep schools. The boys can join Yardley Court, which currently has 250+ pupils, at Year 3 and they will stay until Year 6 (11+) or Year 8 (13+ Common Entrance). The girls can join Derwent Lodge which currently has 135+ pupils aged 7 to 11 years. Overall, there are 600+ pupils here on site at Somerhill. The schools are all based in a stunning Jacobean mansion set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland. You will be hard-pressed to find a more glorious setting for a school! Somerhill Pre-Prep classrooms are all located around a courtyard and this offers a secure setting for the children. Teaching and learning also takes place in the diverse outdoor environment surrounding the building. As a result of a strong building programme over the last ten years, we also benefit from excellent facilities including: the SPP outdoor play area, Music Building and fantastic sports amenities. More details of all three schools can be found on our website: www.somerhill.org.
All members of staff here at Somerhill contribute to a very busy Clubs and Activities programme that takes place both during lunchtimes and after school. Staff are welcome to offer any activity that will generate enthusiasm from our pupils.
Specification
Ours is a lively and happy staff room with 30+ supportive colleagues. We welcome applications from men and women who can offer enthusiasm, energy, commitment, good humour and who will enjoy being part of a busy, happy and positive school.
Closing Date for Applications: Sunday, 22nd September, 2019
Interviews: Wednesday, 25th September, 2019
Start Date: October, 2019
Salary: £9.50 per hour ( £10.60 including holiday pay)
Hours of work: Full Time 8.00am - 4.30pm (4 days per week) and 8.00pm - 6.00pm (1 day per week *agreed termly)
Reporting to: The Head of Somerhill Pre - Prep
About Somerhill
Ours is a very special school with a unique structure in this part of the world. We have a coeducational pre-prep of 200 boys and girls aged three to seven. At the end of Year Two, in the same way as for ‘diamond model’ schools, our girls join Derwent Lodge, (136 girls from Year Three to Six) and the boys join Yardley Court (250 boys from Year Three to Eight). Our pupils are, therefore, taught in single sex classes from the age of seven but very much in a coeducational setting. More details can be found on our website: www.somerhill.org.
The school is based in a stunning Jacobean mansion, set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland. You will be hard-pressed to find a more glorious setting for a school! Somerhill is an estate just to the south of Tonbridge and is readily accessed by a slip road off the A21. We have excellent facilities including a multi-purpose sports hall, astroturf, new dining hall, indoor swimming pool complex and music centre built in 2014.
Ours is a mixed ability school. We have very bright and capable pupils and are one of the largest 11+ grammar school feeders in Kent. We also have a strong record of obtaining scholarships to top independent secondary schools, such as Tonbridge and Sevenoaks, at 11/13+. We also have boys and girls who find aspects of their learning more challenging and currently approximately 60+ pupils receive some measure of additional support.
When girls leave Derwent Lodge, many of them go to the Kent grammar schools and others go on to Sevenoaks School, Kent College, Walthamstow Hall, Mayfield, and other independent and state schools. Of the boys who leave Yardley Court at 11+ many go to the local grammar schools. For boys leaving at 13+, Tonbridge School is the most popular destination. Others join Sevenoaks School, Bede’s, Eastbourne, Caterham, and Sutton Valence.
Whilst Somerhill has some 600 pupils, the division into three separate sections means that each section can tailor its teaching to best suit the children within it. Parents feel that they have the best of both worlds with small care and linked pupil/teacher ratios but with larger school facilities and social opportunities. They are very supportive of the idea behind a coeducational pre-prep leading to single sex prep sections, but within a mixed gender environment.
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