Graduate Teaching Assistant
Charles Dickens Primary School
Southwark
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Southwark Support Staff payscales - Scp 15-22
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- April 2017
- Apply by:
- 24 March 2017
Job overview
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dates: Apply by 12pm Friday 24th March 2017
Job start April 2017
Salary: Hays Grade 3 – Scale 15 - 22
Location: Southwark
Contract type: Term-Time Only, 30 hours a week
Contract Term: fixed term until the end of the current academic year (due to pupil premium linked funding). Possibility of extension at the end of contract dependent on future vacancies.
We Have Great Expectations!
Charles Dickens Primary School is an outstanding central London primary school which places creativity and academic excellence at the heart of everything we do. We are based in Borough, with London’s best arts institutions on our doorstep. Our pupils understand nature by growing vegetables in the school gardens and looking after our school chickens and quails. They develop a love of literature through working alongside actors from renowned theatres such as the Unicorn Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. Creative skills are nurtured through working alongside an artist and musician in residence as well as our talented teachers who organise a packed calendar of creative projects.
Have a look at our website www.charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk and school blog to see recent learning highlights!
We are an expanding school and are investing heavily in personalised learning. We are looking for an ambitious, enthusiastic graduate with a creative mind to join our team and take responsibility for supporting and improving learning. Opportunities to join this fantastic school don’t come up very often!
The successful candidate will be:
· A graduate looking to gain experience in an outstanding school environment with a view to going on to teacher training, HLTA status or to become a specialist practitioner
· Geared towards supporting and furthering excellent, creative and challenging teaching and supporting the maintenance of a dynamic and inspiring learning environment
· Ambitious, wishing to demonstrate a substantial impact and with a strong focus on own professional development
· Motivated, enthusiastic and imaginative
· Well-qualified, articulate and committed to high academic standards for all children
· Hard-working and a great team player with well-developed interpersonal skills
We offer:
· Excellent professional development with lots of encouragement to develop ideas and projects from a strong, experienced leadership team
· Opportunities to work with many of our creative partners including The Unicorn Theatre, Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe and our resident artists and musicians
· A friendly supportive staff team of outstanding practitioners
Closing Date for Applications- Friday 24th March 2017 at 12pm
All applications to be sent to office@charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk
Visits to our school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit please contact our school office on
020 7407 1769 or email us at office@charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by following best guidance and practice and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant.
Charles Dickens School is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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About Charles Dickens Primary School
Based in Southwark, south-east London, Charles Dickens Primary School takes pride in teaching children aged 3-11 how to care for the environment, as well as each other. Around 295 students attend the mixed-gender community school. It is a large school situated in a culturally, socially and ethnically mixed community. More than 35 different languages are spoken at the school.
Headteacher
Cassie Buchanan
Values and vision
Charles Dickens Primary School aims to promote a “thirst for learning coupled with powerful self-belief” among its pupils. The teachers have a distinctive approach to education, with creative arts at its core. They believe in learning through doing, through collaboration, and through linking subjects in topic-based learning. The school accepts and embraces the multicultural nature of society, giving every pupil the opportunity for personal success. Pupils are also encouraged to develop a sense of their roles and responsibilities in their local community.
Phonics is significantly valued in the early years of teaching, as Charles Dickens Primary School believes it lays the foundation for successful reading. The children are taught the National Curriculum and foundation subjects, including maths, English and science, plus music, computing and PE. Teachers and staff support pupils with special educational needs or disabilities to make sure every child makes progress, both academically and emotionally. Dance classes with practitioners from Rambert are also available at the school.
Ofsted report
“Staff work very hard to enrich pupils' reading and writing skills. In particular, there has been a major focus on reading. This is having an impressive impact on the way that pupils are now racing ahead with their skills in Years 1 to 3 and is evidence of the school's outstanding capacity to improve."
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