Sports Teaching Assistant

Wetherby Kensington provides an environment that promotes educational excellence and tradition through a forward-thinking, holistic curriculum within which the needs of individual pupils are fostered.

Wetherby Kensington is a school for boys from Reception to Year 3 and is two form entry per year group. The boys receive high levels of academic education and pastoral care. The Wetherby Kensington boys begin their learning journey in Reception and can stay at Wetherby Kensington until they are eight years old. Wetherby Kensington can be found in Wetherby Gardens and is in a conservation area. The school overlooks the beautiful Wetherby Gardens.

With the opening of the Preparatory School in 2004, Wetherby boys have the opportunity to proceed through, or sit a competitive exam for, a London Day School. The adopted motto of Wetherby Kensington is ‘Care, share and be fair’. These are the underlying principles of all that we stand for at Wetherby Kensington. Every boy is encouraged to be the best that he can be and every member of staff is committed to enabling each individual to fulfil his potential and achieve his goal. The school is a happy and vibrant one, an energetic and forward learning environment, whilst retaining the best of educational traditions.

We are looking to appoint part-time Sports Teaching Assistant for September 2024! 

This role suits recent graduates looking to do a PGCE course in the future. This part-time role spreading over 5 days.

Summary of the post:

• Interact and support children (under direction of the Head of Games) in a positive way to foster their enthusiasm for learning and competing in sport activities
• Instil in children the ethos of good sportsmanship and an understanding of what it means to represent their school in a sporting setting
• To work with the Head of Games in preparing work and putting up displays
• Assist sport staff members with the delivery of lessons
• To conduct lessons (if required) according to the agreed policy and syllabus
• Officiate fixtures
• Assist sport department on away sports fixtures
• Assist with sport department administration

HOURS OF WORK

• Official working hours are approximately 9-3:30 unless there is a morning squad, staff meeting or after school fixture or function. Hours to be decided with the offered candidate based on the timetable for next year. 

OTHER DUTIES

• Supervise break and lunch time play
• To contribute to the extra curricular activities and life of the school
• Carry out other related duties and responsibilities at the school as may be reasonably allocated, as the need arises, by the class teacher or head teacher.
• Contribute to and participate in team planning, self-evaluation, in-service training and professional development in assigned areas of the curriculum and pastoral arrangements.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Ensure the children leave the school properly dressed in their sport kit or school uniform
• Attend additional inset days and evening events as required by Head and school calendar.

Candidate specification:

• Be excellent classroom practitioners who value children
• Have high, though realistic expectations of the children
• Have a thorough up-to-date knowledge of the sports curriculum
• Be IT competent
• Be committed to making a difference to all children of all abilities and talents, using a variety of teaching styles to aid learning
• Be a committed, dynamic and pro-active teacher and a cheerful, friendly and cooperative member of the staff
• Be supportive and positive in their interactions with team members and pupils
• Maintain excellent levels of appearance, attendance and punctuality
• Be fully involved in the life of the school
• Value, and be willing to promote, the caring ethos of the school
• Be a team player