Teaching Assistant - term time only
St Christopher's School
Brighton and Hove
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 April 2025
Job overview
Our Teaching Assistants work with teachers to support our students by working with individuals or small groups of pupils. They may also be responsible for some learning activities within the overall teaching plan. Teaching Assistants work across departments and year groups providing support and assistance to class and subject teachers.
St Christopher's is a co-educational prep school in the heart of Hove. Our children are bright, happy, inquisitive and kind with unique talents and interests. Our talented team of teachers ensure that each child is nurtured and challenged on every stage of their educational journey. We welcome committed and enthusiastic teachers and support staff to our cohesive and friendly team.
This post is suitable for applicants who have some experience of working in a school environment in a similar capacity and understand the complexities and skills necessary to work in a premium prep school. This is a term time only role and the salary will be paid pro rata.
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About St Christopher's School
- St Christopher's School
- 33 New Church Road, Hove
- East Sussex
- BN3 4AD
- United Kingdom
Welcome to St Christopher’s, a co-educational prep school in the heart of Hove, delivering a first-class academic education within a warm, friendly and supportive family environment. As part of the Brighton College family of schools, we enjoy a long-held reputation for academic excellence, first rate sport and a strong tradition in the creative and performing arts.
St Christopher's is very much a family school and we strive to maintain a caring environment in which kindness, good manners and respect for others is encouraged and rewarded. Our talented team of teachers ensure that each child is nurtured and challenged on every stage of their educational journey which allows them to reach their full potential. When they move on to senior schools, our children go on to Brighton College and other top senior schools with a vast array of scholarships and awards.
Head
Elizabeth Lyle
Vision and values
St Christopher’s School encourages its pupils to aspire to great things. It ensures every student feels valued and nurtured, helping them to fulfil their potential, and encourages pupils to take part in sports and creative activities. Teachers emphasise the need for every child to be trustworthy and responsible, and to learn to work and study hard.
At St Christopher’s School, the key areas of learning are: communication and language; personal, social and emotional development; literacy; maths; understanding the world; and expressive arts and design. The preparatory school also emphasises the importance of finding strengths outside of the academic world. Our staff are positive, caring and ambitious.
ISI report
“Pupils of all abilities are highly successful in their learning. The school successfully meets its aims to help pupils learn the habits and rewards of hard work and careful study, thus preparing them to gain places at the senior school of their choice.”
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