Teaching Assistant
Riverside School
Barking and Dagenham
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- APT & C Grade 3/4 subject to experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- Immediate Start
- Apply by:
- 12 December 2018
Job overview
Maternity Cover Contract
APT & C Grade 3/4 subject to experience
Term-time only
35 hours per week 8.30 am – 4.00 pm
Required for an immediate start, an enthusiastic and adaptable Teaching Assistant to join an exciting new Secondary School that opened in 2012.
Riverside School serves the growing Barking Riverside community on the north bank of the Thames and is already over-subscribed. The school currently operates in superb newly built accommodation.
This is an opportunity to join a new school as part of a tightly-knit team. All lessons take place in banded groups to enable work to be effectively targeted at the right level of challenge. The highest standards of behaviour and academic rigour are demanded and achieved.
The person appointed will be responsible for work across the areas outlined below:
- Support pupils with SEN
- Contribute to discussions concerning pupils with SEN to inform for planning/reviewing or monitoring purposes.
- Be conversant with and use information technology equipment available within the school, loading information when appropriate.
- Assist, under the guidance of appropriate professional staff, with the implementation of behaviour programmes.
- Ensure pupils’ access to classroom activities.
- Assist, as appropriate, pupils with SEN in a range of activities outside the classroom e.g. pastoral support, school trips.
- Contribute verbal/written reports on pupils with SEN for review purposes.
- Be responsible, in the school setting, for the health, safety and welfare of pupils with SEN.
The successful applicant will have the following qualities:
- Good interpersonal communication skills.
- Flexibility and reliability.
- To be able to work as a member of a team as well under their own initiative.
- Organisational and time management skills.
- A passion for the enrichment of young people’s lives.
The above duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out such other appropriate duties as may be required by the Headteacher and within the grading level of the post and the competence of the post holder.
For an application form please contact the school at riverside@riverside.bardaglea.org.uk
Closing date: Wednesday, 12th December 2018
Attached documents
About Riverside School
Riverside School is an outstanding, mixed, non-denominational secondary school with a sixth form. It is an academy located in Barking, Greater London (Inner London Pay Scale).
Riverside opened as a new provision in September 2013, it currently has 1500 students on roll and will eventually grow to a full capacity of 1800 students aged 11-18 by 2021. The school moved to its new £45m state-of-the-art premises in September 2017 with very large 75-95m² classrooms and impressive indoor/outdoor sports facilities.
Headteacher
Mr Andrew Roberts
Values and vision
Riverside School's motto “Excellence for All” emphasises our very high expectations for everyone. Riverside's curriculum is academically rigorous, broad and balanced for all students in all year groups. This combined with our exceptional pedagogy realises our belief in social justice, activating the greatest successes for all learners whatever their prior attainment; whatever their background. The curriculum is meticulously planned to ensure progression is logically sequenced; therefore, cumulatively developing learners’ skills and knowledge over time. Riverside’s strict and calm working atmosphere creates well-rounded individuals who excel in the arts, on the sporting field and academically. Our extra-curricular programme is fundamental to what we desire for our learners - we refer to it as the ‘essential wider curriculum’ (EWC). We pride ourselves on knowing all our learners really well, thus engineering a curriculum to actuate a wholly inclusive and highly ambitious education for all. Riverside School is currently in the country's top 50 schools for student progress, P8: +0.99 and was graded Ofsted outstanding in October 2022. Our huge success is underpinned by the highest quality professional development for all staff.
Ofsted report
October 2022:
"The school’s motto, ‘Excellence for All’, reflects the ambition that leaders have for the whole school community. A very strong culture of high expectations across the school means that pupils here are encouraged to succeed. Pupils benefit from a rich curriculum that is taught expertly by very well-trained staff. The ambition for all to do well includes those pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), who follow the same carefully considered curriculum as their peers.
Pupils work hard and achieve well. Very clearly established routines ensure that pupils are engaged in their learning and that their work is of a consistently high quality. Standards of behaviour are very high. Lessons are not disrupted by poor behaviour, and cases of bullying are rare. When bullying does happen, pupils are confident that it will be dealt with. Pupils feel safe in the school.
Pupils enjoy school and appreciate the wide range of additional opportunities that they have. This includes a range of high-profile visiting guest speakers and a variety of after-school clubs and sporting activities. Pupils are active in supporting community projects."
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