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KS2 High Level Teaching Assistant

KS2 High Level Teaching Assistant

Colfe's School

Greenwich

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2022
Apply by:
1 July 2022

Job overview

Colfe’s School is an academically selective school for pupils aged 3-18 on the borders of Lewisham and Greenwich. 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join the Junior School’s team after the internal promotion of the existing postholder to a full-time Teacher role. The school is proud of the extensive professional development programme available to staff and has supported many colleagues to achieve HLTA status in recent years. We therefore welcome applications both from candidates who already possess HLTA qualifications and from candidates who have the appropriate experience and ambition to undertake necessary training. Experience in supporting SEND pupils would be advantageous; a passion for inclusion and supporting academically able pupils with SEND to thrive in school is essential.   

The primary focus of the KS2 HLTA will be to provide targeted support to classes and teachers across Year 3-6. Much of their time will be spent supporting the core subjects of English and Mathematics, although they will support other subjects as and when required. Their work may involve providing additional support to children struggling with core subjects or stretch and challenge to high flyers; the precise plan will be agreed in response to the needs of the school and the strengths of the successful candidate. The successful candidate will need to build excellent working relationships with our KS2 children and their teachers.  


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About Colfe's School

THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;

• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;

• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;

• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;

• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.

Colfe’s School

Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools.  It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652.  In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.

In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school.  For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.

Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War.  In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London.  All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site.  The facilities are excellent: the  school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.

Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.

Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it.  It is very much a school of the present day.  The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy).  The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other.  Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’.  They are lively and willing to have a go.

Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.  

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