Early Years Practitioner
St Anthony's School for Boys
Camden
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- In accordance with groups pay scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 10 June 2024
Job overview
St Anthony’s is a Catholic Preparatory School (IAPS) for boys aged 2.5 – 13. It is Roman Catholic but welcomes boys of other faiths. There are currently over 280 pupils on roll and the school is looking to increase this number to 330 over the next few years. This will be in part due to the rapid expansion of our highly successful Nursery, which opened in September 2023.
The majority of boys transfer to leading Independent schools.
We have an exciting opportunity for two enthusiastic and dedicated Early Years Practitioner to join our team at St Anthony's Boys.
The Early Years Practitioner must have an understanding of the principles and content of the Early Years Foundation Stage and know how to put them into practice. They must support other practitioners in acknowledging the various influences and transitions experienced by a child.
Key Responsibilities:
- To be a highly motivated early years’ practitioner role modelling excellent practice to children as identified in the Early Years Inspection Handbook.
- To stay abreast of current Early Years initiatives and legislation and ensure that this informs your practice.
- To have consistently high expectations of what children can achieve and support their learning.
- To have a secure understanding of child development of the age group they are working with and have relevant subject knowledge that is detailed and communicated to the children.
- To gather assessment information looking at what children already know, understand, and can do and share this with parents or other professionals.
- To use assessment information to plan appropriate teaching and learning strategies that identify able or talented children or children who are falling behind in their learning and need additional support, enabling children to make good progress.
- To support children, understand how to develop as a result of regular interaction and encouragement from staff, and support parents understand how their children should progress and how they can contribute to this.
- To develop strong working relationships with parents by providing information that helps them to understand how children can progress.
- To be a reflective practitioner using evaluative tools to monitor and improve practice.
- To write accurate reports and document on children’s developmental progress using the Early Years Outcomes document and other relevant documents.
The full Job Description is available at interview and on request.
The ideal candidate will have:
Qualifications
- The post holder must hold level 3 qualification in Early Years Education – Essential.
- This post would suit someone with experience of working in an Early Years setting or an ambitious and committed graduate starting out on their profession – Essential.
- The post holder should have at least 3 years of experience of working with young children, particularly 2–5-year-olds – Desirable.
- Experience of working with children and families, identifying support for developing children’ learning.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Experience of teaching and delivering planned learning experiences
Knowledge & Understanding
- A good knowledge and understanding of the EYFS, Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and relevant current legislation.
- A good understanding of the developmental needs of young children, particularly 2- to 5-year-olds.
- A good understanding of what constitutes a quality early education environment.
Skills & Abilities
- Good observational and assessment skills and the experience of maintaining accurate learning records for children.
- Ability to communicate effectively with parents and colleagues.
- Good teaching skills including scaffolding, demonstrating and role modelling, positive interactions with children.
Inspired Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practices and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
About St Anthony's School for Boys
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Brief History
St Anthony’s is a Catholic Preparatory School (IAPS) for boys aged 4 – 13. It is Roman Catholic but welcomes boys of other faiths. There are currently over 310 pupils on roll and the school is looking to increase this number to 330 over the next few years. The majority of boys transfer to leading Independent schools.
St. Anthony’s school was founded by Richard Patton during the Victorian period in Eastbourne. It moved to its Hampstead location in 1952 and has been managed by the Alpha Plus Group since 2009.
Ethos and values
The school operates a two-form entry with approximately 20 boys in each class from Reception up to and including Year 6. About half the year group leave St Anthony’s to join Year 7 senior schools including UCS, City of London and Highgate. The remaining pupils stay on to prepare for Common Entrance at the end of Year 8 before proceeding to leading boarding and day schools such as Harrow, Eton, St Paul’s and Westminster.
The school is not super-selective and promotes a caring, nurturing environment promoting the holistic education of each child. We speak of St Anthony’s as a greenhouse rather than a hothouse! Pastoral and academic expectations are high amongst parents and staff. The school adds significant value to pupils’ learning and there is great emphasis on regular communication between boys, staff and pupils.
St Anthony’s achieved ‘Excellent’ in all categories of the ISI full-school inspection in November 2019 - the school is now pursuing an ambitious development plan incorporating digital literacy with outstanding academic, pastoral and co-curricular provision.
Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with over 100 premium private schools spanning six continents providing premium education to over 80,000 students ensuring they all receive a first-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.
We offer you the chance to work/live in an exciting new location, collaborate with passionate educators, develop your skills, and grow in a role that inspires you.
Please visit our careers site for further information and to see our latest opportunities - https://careers.inspirededu.com/
About Inspired
Inspired students benefit from the unique global connectivity of premium schools that are anchored in their local communities.
The individuality of every student is unlocked through a holistic curriculum focused on the three pillars - Academics, Sport and Performing Arts, to ensure every student achieves their full potential.
Through this global approach, we aim to inspire and prepare students to be global citizens, ready to seize their exciting futures and truly flourish with the confidence and attitude needed to thrive in their ever-changing world.
Inspired schools are among the highest performing in the world, most are non-selective and are proud to add considerable value to every student. These Schools regularly achieve highly in league table rankings across the world.
Most importantly, Inspired students not only attain outstanding academic results but also graduate to some of the best universities and careers in the world.
What we can offer you as an employee
We offer a warm and friendly environment for our staff and foster an atmosphere of collaboration and support. Inspired Education values staff training and the development of the individual. There are regular training forums held throughout the group so staff have an opportunity to network and share good practice. Every member of the teaching staff is issued with a Surface Pro laptop and the classrooms are well equipped.
Inspired Education offers its staff a number of benefits:
- Employee Health Assistance Programme. This is a confidential employee benefit which is available to all staff. It is designed to help you deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing.
- Discounted School Fees. All permanent staff employed by the Alpha Plus Group will qualify for 50% discount on school fees for their children in Reception class or above, nurseries and colleges (for day pupils) where we have places. Our admission policies will apply to all applicants. Part time staff will have their school fees adjusted proportionate to their part time hours.
- Group Pension Scheme
- Salary Exchange Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
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