Teaching Assistant Required - Laurels Primary School
Durrington High School
West Sussex
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- DMAT Grade 3 scp 4 - FTE £21,382. Actual Salary - £15,280.80
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2022
Job overview
The Laurels Primary School
- 31.25 hours per week term time only, permanent.
- Salary DMAT Grade 3 scp 4 actual salary. FTE £21,382 / Actual Salary £15,280.80
- Required ASAP
- Closes Monday 5 December 2022
Do you want to be part of our team; working with like-minded colleagues whose core belief is that all children are entitled to an excellent education and are at
the heart of everything that we do? If so, read on, because we want to hear from you.
The Laurels Primary School is part of Durrington Multi Academy Trust (DMAT), whose core value is to ensure all children achieve well and receive the very best
education they deserve. Our school motto – Believe, Achieve, Succeed - ensures that all our children, irrespective of their background, can succeed and
achieve their goals. We are a happy school with great ambition; and as such we always seek to retain and recruit excellent staff. We wish to appoint a Teaching
Assistant who has the skills to support provision of quality teaching and learning. In our school the teaching assistants also lead interventions, as well as
supervising and leading play during lunchtimes to provide continuity of provision and encourage good relationships.
The successful candidate will:
• Have experience of working in a school, preferably supporting children in KS2
• Be able to work as part of a team
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills with children, colleagues and parents/carers
• Be reliable, enthusiastic, caring and motivated
• Be capable and confident in English and Mathematics
Please return the application form with a covering letter (maximum 1 side of A4) addressing the following points:
1. Why you want to work at The Laurels Primary and what you would bring to our team?
2. How your experience and skills would enable you to be successful in this role?
These points are important so please ensure you do address them.
We will invite strong candidates to interview before the closing date.
If you feel that you can bring something special to our school and Trust, we want to hear from you now! If you would like further information, please
visit our website www.laurelsprimary.co.uk or contact Carly Oliver (EA to Headteacher) on 01903 830 901 or coliver@laurelsprimary.co.uk to arrange a visit.
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About Durrington High School
Working at Durrington
At Durrington we have worked hard to develop a culture in our school where teachers and leaders are looked after, supported and professionally enriched. We would love to hear from you if you think that you might want to play a part in the exciting Durrington journey! In an ever-changing educational landscape, we focus on clear priorities:
- Ensuring all staff are able to have a sensible work/life balance - this means that we constantly review what we do, so teachers and leaders are able to focus on their core purpose.
- An evidence informed approach to teaching and CPD - we don’t want our teachers wasting their time on low-impact, gimmicky approaches to teaching. We want them to shape their teaching around what research evidence says is most likely to work. As one of only 39 Research Schools in the country, we are at the forefront of ensuring everything we do is informed by research evidence.
- Developing and growing our own excellent leaders, who in turn are able to nurture their own high-performing teams.
- Appointing external candidates with shared values, who will thrive in our school.
Looking After Our Staff
At Durrington we know that our staff are our most valuable resource. As a result, we have put in place a number of strategies to alleviate the pressures on staff. These include:
- We have moved away from a ‘tick-box’ approach to teaching and have embraced a ‘tight but loose’ approach. We want teaching to be tight, in terms of focusing on sound, evidence-informed pedagogical principles, but loose in terms of how this is interpreted in classrooms by subject specialists.
- Each department has developed their own streamlined feedback and homework policies, aimed at reducing workload whilst optimising impact.
- Teachers are not expected to write lengthy reports for students, but to record a current and projected grade for students and a judgement grade for effort and homework. •
- Enhanced pay scales and rapid progression opportunities.
- Teacher non-contact time above the national average.
- We have just three data collection points for each year group in a year, informed by ongoing assessment of student progress.
- We do not grade lesson observations.
- Fortnightly joint planning CPD within curriculum teams saves a significant amount of time for individual teachers.
- INSET days are used for collaborative planning in curriculum teams.
- Teachers are not expected to keep lengthy ‘evidence files’ for appraisal.
- All staff are registered with Healthshield for a range of wellbeing and practical support services with benefits including a variety of treatments for musculoskeletal issues, 24/7 GP and Employee Assistance Programme.
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