Lunchtime/Late Stay Assistant
Stephen Perse Junior School Dame Bradbury's
Essex
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- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 20/02/2023
- Apply by:
- 3 February 2023
Job overview
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a leader in modern independent education, superbly well placed, both to meet the challenges, and to seize the opportunities, presented by its future. Any school, indeed, any group of schools, is only as strong as its people. Stephen Perse boasts exceptional people across all of its schools and nurseries, and invests in their recruitment, development and empowerment to ensure our pupils benefit from excellent role modelling, outstanding support and exceptional teaching. As Principal, I consider this investment in our people to be of utmost importance.
At the Stephen Perse Foundation, all are united in embracing the modern world and in seeking to help our pupils to find and take their place in it, as confident, socially responsible adults. We seek to attract people who are inspired by this challenge, people who share our values, people who are passionate about our collective vision of developing the change-makers of the future.
Richard Girvan
Principal
Responsible to: Head of School
Location: Dame Bradbury’s, Saffron Walden
Role Description:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the health and safety of school children during lunchtime breaks. They will facilitate the smooth running of breaktime for our Year 1 - 6 pupils They will also support the late stay supervisor in creating a safe, caring, stimulating environment for pupils in our after-school provision. They will support the late stay supervisor to facilitate a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for pupils; and help implement an agreed daily routine, including ensuring that registers are kept accurately and in a timely manner.
Main Responsibilities:
Lunchtime Supervision
Lunchtime support for the class teachers, form teachers or specialist teachers
● Contribute to behaviour management both in school and on trips and visits, take charge of situations to allow the teachers to continue to work with the rest of the class.
● Actively supervise children during break times keeping an eye on behaviour and discipline in line with school policies and codes of conduct.
● Feedback any information about pupils with reference to pastoral or academic concerns clearly with teaching staff.
● Take children needing First Aid to the Office.
● Oversee the safe movement of children on and off the minibus.
● Support for the school.
● Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other staff in the School and the parents or carers.
● Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and healthy environment.
● Maintain data protection at all times but particularly when accompanying children between sites.
● When required to, be flexible in working within other parts of the Stephen Perse Foundation.
Lunchtime support for pupils
● Ensure the safety of pupils through supervising pupils around the school
● Contribute to a programme of age-appropriate activities designed to stimulate the pupils you are working with.
● Be flexible within the working practices of KS1 or 2, and be prepared to help where needed, including domestic jobs within KS1, e.g., preparation of snacks, cleaning equipment, etc.
● Record accidents according to procedure and make sure that parents are informed of any accidents that have taken place.
● Look at Junior School as a ‘whole’, where your help is most needed and how you can most effectively meet the needs of the pupils in your care.
● Respect the confidentiality of information received.
● Help to make sure that the environment meets the needs of pupils, reflecting their cultures and religious backgrounds, and stages of development.
● Encourage and promote inclusion during play, ensuring all pupils are involved in activities
● Be a positive role model when promoting the pupil's “learning habits”.
● Take responsibility for delivering play activities with groups who would benefit from a different learning approach as agreed with the relevant teachers.
Late stay supervision
● Keep accurate registers of the children in your care, noting arrival and departure times.
● Each day, establish and maintain a calm, enjoyable and stimulating environment for the pupils in your care.
● Actively supervise pupils at all times, either independently or in a team, ensuring that a safe environment is maintained at all times.
● Ensure that older pupils focus on completing homework in the relevant dedicated time slot, offering help and support if needed.
● Interact positively with pupils as appropriate.
● Serve snacks and tea at the agreed times and in the agreed way in order to provide consistency for the pupils in your care.
● Uphold high expectations of pupils.
● Be a proactive team member, working collaboratively with your colleagues.
● Work with colleagues to ensure that the Stephen Perse Foundation aims and ethos is reflected.
● Record accidents according to procedure and make sure that parents are informed of any accidents that have taken place.
● Understand and use the Foundation behaviour policy.
Hours of work
30 hours per week working 12:00pm to 6:00pm, during term time only. This is a fixed term contract to start on 20th February 2023 until 5th July 2023 for a total of 16.6 weeks.
Salary
£6,931 per annum (£23,171 FTE) for working 16.6 weeks. Please note that if the successful applicant joins after February 20th, the salary will differ.
Attached documents
About Stephen Perse Junior School Dame Bradbury's
- Stephen Perse Junior School Dame Bradbury's
- Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
- Essex
- CB10 2AL
- United Kingdom
The Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools combining excellent results and achievement alongside personal wellbeing located across Cambridge and Saffron Walden; educating boys and girls from nursery to sixth form where students gain an exceptional skill set that supports ambition, nurtures talent, encourages creativity and critical thinking leading to success and self-fulfilment.
Background
History of Dame Bradbury’s and the Stephen Perse Foundation
Dame Bradbury’s is located on Ashdon Road, in the heart of the market town of Saffron Walden, 15 miles to the south of Cambridge. There has been a school on this site since 1317 but it was in 1521 that Dame Joan Bradbury made the school available for local people. The School was endowed in 1535.
More recently, Dame Bradbury’s joined the Stephen Perse Foundation (originally the Perse School for Girls) in 2013, as one of two Junior Schools. The Foundation has grown and developed since 2007, adding a co-educational sixth form to its highly successful Senior School in 2008, and four nurseries and early years settings (three in Cambridge and one at Dame Bradbury’s) between 2010 and 2021. The Foundation has been fully co-educational in all settings since 2017 and now comprises four nurseries, two junior schools, a senior school and sixth form.
Predominantly a day school throughout, there are currently 65 (mainly sixth form) boarders. As well as its reputation for academic excellence, The Stephen Perse Foundation is renowned for an innovative approach to education, and a focus on preparing pupils for the future.
Dame Bradbury's Buildings and Facilities
Dame Bradbury’s boasts excellent facilities on a generous site, which will benefit from a centrally funded Foundation programme of development and refurbishment in the years ahead. As well as suitably equipped classrooms, there are dedicated spaces for science, CDE (create, design and engineering), music, a library, theatre and dining hall. Concerts also take place locally at the award winning Saffron Hall. Additionally, the Rainey Hall is a well equipped indoor sports hall on site, with a viewing gallery, changing rooms and cricket nets. Outside, there is a large playground, netball courts and a mini AstroTurf; a sports field provides for football and rugby in the winter and athletics in the summer.
Leadership structure
The Foundation is a Charitable Trust with a typical governance structure of a large voluntary board with a breadth of professional experience. Many of our Governors work within the Colleges or Faculties of Cambridge University, or in the local Cambridge or wider economy. A number of Governors are current or recent parents. Strategic objectives and budgets are proposed by the Principal and the Operational and Educational Executive and refined through discussion with Governing Body committees, before ratification by the Governing Body.
The School is led and managed by the Principal and the Executive, which currently comprises the Principal, Vice Principal, Chief Financial Officer, Charitable Foundation Director and Senior Deputy Head (11-18). Richard Girvan took up post as Principal in 2020 and the Foundation is part-way through a leadership and management review, with the establishment of a new committee structure of middle and senior leaders within and between our settings. The Principal and Senior Deputy Head (11-18) oversee the Secondary School, with the Vice Principal having oversight of the 1-11 settings. Each Junior school site is currently led day to day by a Head of School and the four nurseries are collectively led and managed by a Head and Deputy Head of Nurseries and EYFS, with on site nursery managers in each setting.
Centralised HR, Finance, Admissions, Estates, Marketing, Facilities, Data, Compliance and IT support departments serve all of the schools of the Foundation and their work is coordinated through a dedicated Heads of Sections committee. The Admissions and Marketing teams are based at Dame Bradbury’s, with other support departments run largely from the Cambridge sites.
Curriculum
The Stephen Perse Foundation aims to foster modern scholarship through exceptional teaching and a dynamic, flexible and rigorous academic curriculum. We recognise that we are educating children in preparation for life in an ever-changing, global and digital world. Pupils gain an exceptional skill set at Stephen Perse; an all-round education that supports ambition, nurtures talent, and encourages creativity and critical thinking, leading to personal achievement and self-fulfilment. Pupils gain the skills, knowledge and practical experience to become the change-makers of their future world. Pupils have access to iPads across the curriculum (The Foundation has ‘Apple Distinguished School’ status) and digital skills are learnt and applied within all lessons in tandem with the acquisition of core academic knowledge and skills. Teaching is delivered by class teachers and subject specialists, inspiring and enabling pupils to develop in the creative subjects, languages, mathematics, English, sciences, humanities and physical education.
Sport
Physical activity and an enjoyment of being outdoors are important facets of our education for all our pupils. As well as the generous provision within curriculum time, there is a good range of sports clubs for the children to choose from and the teaching of rugby, hockey, cricket and netball. There's an emphasis on sportsmanship and fair play, as well as teamwork and we strive for a balance between stretching the best athletes and being inclusive. For most sports, there are house competitions, pupil sport captains, with cups for individual sports, and the overall House Sports Cup is presented to the winning house on sports day. There is an extensive fixture programme across the range of sports with local schools for Years 3-6 organised by the Head of Sport.
Performing Arts
Music is part of the core curriculum with orchestra and choir integral to the timetable. Everyone plays an instrument and over half of pupils take specialist lessons. There is a significant programme of clubs and opportunities for pupils to develop and take part in groups organised by the Head of Performing Arts.
Our pupils have plenty of opportunities to take to the stage in our 130-seat theatre. We put on plays and concerts, as well as many other events, including visits by the Young Shakespeare Company and Freshwater Theatre. All of our Year groups perform to the parent body at some point in the year to showcase their music and drama skills. In Year 6, children can also learn to use the sound and lighting rig, so everyone can get involved in putting on a show-stopping performance.
CDE
A light, airy Create studio in the heart of the campus provides the perfect space to nurture the creative talents of tomorrow. Pupils at Dame Bradbury's are introduced to engineering from a young age, working in partnership with other STEAM subjects to innovate and get creative in the studio.
The CDE curriculum gives children a space in which their ideas can run wild. From sewing and sketching, to model building and using iPads to create avatars, the studio is a place where pupils’ imaginations have a creative outlet. Specialist teaching for CDE is for Years 4-6 by our Head of CDE.
Outdoor Learning
In Forest School children enjoy and explore the natural world as they learn about native trees, identify local birdlife and discover exactly which wood is best for making a bow and arrow. They go in all weathers and love every minute. We have a Forest School Lead across the Foundation who works with EYFS and Years 1 and 2.
Our outside learning programme and Forest School status mean that our grounds often double as a classroom, helping children to understand and appreciate the natural world. There's plenty to explore, including our teaching and environmental gardens and a dipping pond. We also have access to local woodlands and open spaces which our children use to develop their Forest Skills even further.
While they’re having fun, they’re also learning skills such as teamwork, woodland crafts, how to use tools and staying safe outdoors. They discuss what they want to do during a session and what they need, then work together to arrange it – building a den becomes an exercise in communication and working in a group when you’ve got heavy branches to carry. Crucially, they also learn how sustainable practices are vital to the preservation of our environment. Our Foundation Head of Sustainability works with champions at all of our sites to raise awareness and inculcate sustainability among pupils and staff.
Co-curricular
A great deal of learning at Dame Bradbury’s takes place beyond the classroom and there is a huge commitment among staff and the School's leadership team to ensure a rich and varied co-curriculum where every pupil can find their niche and develop a passion from an interest or talent. Clubs are held before school, during lunch and after school and range from chess to gardening to Lego animation, and beyond. The majority are run by teaching staff with some run by specialist teachers and coaches. Day trips and residential trips offer additional opportunities and are well supported by staff and well attended by pupils.
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