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Creatives Educational Teaching Assistant

Creatives Educational Teaching Assistant

Upper Batley High School

Kirklees

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Salary:
Grade 6 - £16846.52 - £18235.32
Job type:
Full Time, Temporary
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
2 September 2020

Job overview

37 hours – term time plus 2 days
Grade 6 - £16846.52 - £18235.32
Immediate start - Temporary for 12 months

Are you creative? Are you forward-thinking and full of ideas? Are you willing and able to use creativity to transform the lives of children and young people?

If our questions spiked your interest, then please keep reading. We are looking for a creative individual who can help us transform our learning community. If you have recently graduated with a degree (or equivalent experience) in Product Design, Art, 3D Modelling or similar, then we would love you to join our team. 

We are looking for an inspirational individual who can help, design, build and install engaging and inspiring and creative classroom and learning displays. Think a plane in History, a solar system or DNA double helix in Science, an Escher model in Maths and an Eiffel Tower in Modern Foreign Languages...you get the idea. The role would be to work with our Head of Creatives, our amazing Creatives team and our general staff team, to transform a 1960’s building into the most engaging and inspiring learning community in the country. You would also help some young people develop their own individual creativity.

Upper Batley High School is a dynamic, innovative and forward thinking learning community. We are proud that our focus is on educating ‘Tomorrow’s Successful Men’ and we are specialists in the education of boys. Respect lies at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a forward thinking individual to join our team on our journey to outstanding. Our GCSE results increased again in 2019, demonstrating great progress for boys and a record number of learners achieving the highest possible grade 9. Ofsted visited us in 2019 and said our school “provides all pupils with a high quality education”. Upper Batley High School were identified as a Beacon School in the Northern Challenge report due to the excellent progress our disadvantaged learners make. We also hold the PSHCE Charter Mark, the Careers Quality Standard and we are a lead school within the Kirklees Careers Hub. We are one of only a few schools in the UK to achieve 100% in all Gatsby benchmarks. Ofsted identified our careers programme as a “real strength of the school”. Our 11-16 school is multi-cultural and located close to the town centre, within easy access of the motorway network. Our work is focused on developing the unique potential of every individual whilst working towards becoming an outstanding educational organisation. We are a vibrant, rich and exciting learning community with unique and inspiring opportunities inside and outside the classroom. We are part of the Batley Multi Academy Trust, whose sole purpose is to provide an outstanding education through our family of schools. Batley Multi Academy Trust currently comprises Batley Girls’ High School, Upper Batley High School, Batley Grammar School, Healey Junior, Infant and Nursery School and Field Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive forward thinking school who in return for your commitment and hard work will support you to achieve your own career goals and aspirations. Please apply by completing a Batley Multi Academy Trust application form, available at www.batleymat.co.uk or by contacting the Human Resources department on 01924 350081/ recruitment@batleymat.co.uk, for consideration by our selection panel.

Closing date for applications is Wednesday 2nd September 2020 at 12 noon.
Interviews will be held either week commencing 7th or 14th September 2020

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About Upper Batley High School

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+44 1924 326343

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Upper Batley High School is a dynamic and innovative learning community. We are proud that our focus is on educating ‘Tomorrow’s Successful Men’ and we are specialists in the education of boys. We inspire every member of our learning community to be the very best version of themselves each and every day and we strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for forward thinking individuals to join our team on our journey to outstanding.

Upper Batley High School is a school dedicated to delivering academic success, coupled with first class care, guidance and support. Our bespoke, engaging and enriching curriculum ensures our young people achieve at a high level, and our outstanding Career Pathways education inspires our learners to reach their potential and achieve their career goals. We are ambitious for what our learners can achieve, and our curriculum enrichment provides a wide range of experiences outside of the classroom. From the Barnyard to Forest School, from cricket to croquet, from the music recording studio to rocket club there is something for everyone, and plenty of new activities to try. Our school lies at the heart of our community and we firmly believe community makes us.

Our GCSE results are improving rapidly and we were graded as a ‘Good’ school in all areas by Ofsted in 2019, with outstanding provision for careers. Ofsted said our learners are making rapid progress and ‘the school is a harmonious community in which to learn’. We were identified as a Beacon School due to the excellent progress we make with our learners (Northern Powerhouse Report 2016) and we have achieved several awards such as Eco Schools, Gold Award for Mental Health & Wellbeing and our community work is currently featured in an exhibition in the People's History Museum, Manchester.

Our 11-16 school is multi-cultural and located close to the town centre, within easy access of the motorway network. Our work is focused on developing the unique potential of every individual whilst working towards becoming an outstanding educational organisation. We are a vibrant, rich and exciting learning community with unique and inspiring opportunities inside and outside the classroom.

We are part of the Batley Multi Academy Trust, whose sole purpose is to provide an outstanding education through our family of schools. Batley Multi Academy Trust currently comprises Batley Girls’ High School, Upper Batley High School, Healey Junior Infant & Nursery School, Field Lane Junior Infant & Nursery School and Batley Grammar School.

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