Teaching Assistant
Silcoates School
Wakefield
- New
- Salary:
- attractive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 28 September 2026
Job overview
Silcoates is a successful independent co-educational day school with a long and proud history. We achieve excellent academic results and offer a broad and stimulating variety of co-curricular activities. We are seeking to appoint a qualified and experienced Classroom Co-ordinator in our Junior School. The school is set in 50 acres of grounds in Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield, within easy reach of the M1 and M62, offering an all-through, fully co-educational day school experience for children from 3 to 18.
This is an excellent opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced practitioner, complementing our teaching staff by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under a system of supervision in order to support and develop our pupils. This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups of pupils and assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils’ achievement, progress and development. Although you will be largely assigned to one year group, flexibility to work across year groups is required.
The successful applicant will hold a Level 3 Childcare Qualification, or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience, and be expected to play a full part in the co-curricular life of the school. EYFS experience could be helpful. You should be able to demonstrate familiarity with appropriate learning strategies, for example in numeracy and literacy, and be able to develop good relationships with our children and their parents.
The role is for a fixed term until to 9th July 2027. Hours of work are either 8.30am to 2.30pm or 9.30am to 3pm, Monday to Friday.
Please note that we are unable to accept CVs. An application form is available on our website: https://www.silcoates.org.uk/join-our-team/individual-vacancies/
Silcoates School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and DBS.
Closing date: Monday 28th September, 9am
About Silcoates School
Silcoates is a 3 to 18 school which seeks to bring out the very best in every pupil through instilling in them a love of learning and a willingness to seize every opportunity they are given. Whilst many of our pupils begin their life at Silcoates in the Junior School, others join aged 11 and 16 (and at many points in-between!). This continuity serves to embed the skills and qualities that make our pupils enthusiastic and effective learners. It also ensures that they develop strong and life-long friendships with their peers. New pupils to the School are given an especially warm welcome and they soon feel valued members of our community.
Whilst we are academically selective, the pupils have a broad range of abilities and needs and thus we have a curriculum that becomes increasingly flexible as pupils develop their own strengths and aptitudes. However, the most academic will succeed at Silcoates, with recent leavers obtaining places at Cambridge and Durham universities and medical school. The breadth and variety of our curriculum is matched by the range of activities on offer outside the classroom. Having all the School on one site enables the pupils in the Junior School to benefit from the vast array of facilities on offer, from the all-weather playing surfaces to the indoor swimming pool to the fully-equipped Drama Studio.
Sport and exercise are important features of life at Silcoates. Boys are introduced to our core sports of rugby, hockey and cricket in the Junior School and, due to our size, most have the opportunity to play for the School throughout their career; girls are equally as competitive in hockey and netball.
All pupils are given every encouragement to express themselves in the full range of artistic activities and push themselves way beyond their comfort zones through going on trips and expeditions abroad. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme is very well established and several pupils achieve Gold every year. ‘Grit’ and determination are also evident on our biennial expedition to Tanzania.
The principal accolade that many parents and former parents afford the School is that it is a warm and welcoming community and that their children make friendships here that last them a lifetime.
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