Teaching Assistant
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Leigh Academy Molehill
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual salary £15,706 per annum (£20,789 full time equivalent)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 13 March 2023
Job overview
Molehill Primary Academy has a fantastic opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistant to join our highly collaborative and supportive team, starting as soon as possible. Our TAs are pivotal to our success in the classroom and provide a great deal of support for our teachers, therefore our successful candidate will be able to establish strong working relationships with staff and students alike. Key responsibilities will be to provide pupils with a wide range of support, guided by the Class Teacher, to enable children to make progress and attain the targets set within the National Curriculum or Individual Education Plans.
In return we can offer you:
- The opportunity to help shape our future by joining a LAT Academy
- A school community committed to raising achievement and attainment
- A supportive Governing Body and Leadership Team
Our academy is a happy, caring and secure community which offers a stimulating learning environment. By developing potential and self-esteem we help everyone to become a unique, responsible, considerate and successful individual.
By learning together we:
- foster a lifelong love of learning.
- provide a range of intellectual, physical and creative activities.
- nurture spiritual, moral, social and cultural awareness.
- develop lively, enquiring minds.
- promote respect, responsibility and self discipline.
- build self-esteem and a sense of community.
This is a fixed term opportunity until July 2023, offering an actual salary of £15,706 per annum based on 32.5 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week of inset.
Note that whilst the position is offered on a fixed term basis initially, every effort will be made to offer a substantive position thereafter, either at Molehill Primary Academy or within the wider family of academies across Leigh Academies Trust. The central Recruitment Team will keep in touch with you throughout your contract to discuss options available to you.
Working for Molehill Primary Academy: Our academy is a happy, caring and secure community which offers a stimulating learning environment. By developing potential and self-esteem we help everyone to become a unique, responsible, considerate and successful individual.
Our academy caters for boys and girls from the age of 4-11 years. It is well equipped, having its own library, dining hall, assembly hall, sports field and wooded copse. At Molehill, we aim to give every child the very best start possible to their education through vibrant and engaging teaching, enabling the children to become active learners and by using an exciting, broad and balanced curriculum.
Throughout the school, we want our children to enjoy a wide range of experiences which bring the curriculum to life and make learning fun. All staff work hard to ensure the best possible quality of education for the children in every year group. It stands in beautiful grounds that we have developed specially to aid curriculum studies.
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About Leigh Academy Molehill
At Leigh Academy Molehill, we have created a culture that enables both pupils and staff to thrive and achieve their very best. The Academy was opened in 1954 to serve the southern part of the Shepway Estate and the roads leading to it. It caters to boys and girls from the age of three to eleven years. It stands on beautiful grounds, which we have specifically developed to aid curriculum studies.
Relationships between staff at all levels and the children, are highly positive, and this creates a warm and vibrant atmosphere in lessons and during social times. With the support and guidance of leaders, teachers provide well-organised, calm, and purposeful classrooms in which children can enjoy their learning challenges. The positive and caring ethos at Molehill is combined with a clear, relentless focus and an ambition that all pupils can and will achieve well, regardless of their different starting points. Teachers have embedded a culture of high expectations; we will all do whatever it takes to create better life opportunities for our pupils, and they deserve the very best. This commitment was officially recognised in our recent December 2024 Ofsted inspection, where the academy was rated ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. Inspectors commended the school for its ‘endless ambition’ and our proven ability to ensure that every pupil thrives. We help support and develop one another in an open and supportive environment. This extends across the Trust, allowing us to work with other academies, either within the cluster or further afield, whilst still maintaining our own personality and driving our own priorities.
To enhance our curriculum delivery, we are an academy for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), an IB World School. This is an inquiry-led framework that develops independent learners and posits personal success as essential for academic achievement and learners who continue to thrive. We employ conferencing, high-quality learning conversions, and scaffolding with no written feedback as our evaluation and feedback approach.
Principal
Laura Smith
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