Early Years Assistant
St Anthony's School for Boys
Camden
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary + benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 13 December 2024
Job overview
St Anthony’s is a Catholic Preparatory School (IAPS) for boys aged 2.5 – 13. It is Roman Catholic but welcomes boys of other faiths. The majority of boys transfer to leading Independent schools. At St Anthony's we pride ourselves in having very high standards of ourselves and our pupils, and believe that stretch and challenge are essential ingredients to real academic success.
We are looking to appoint a Early Years Assistant who is passionate about teaching and learning, as well as their own professional development.
Interviews will take place as and when suitable applications are received, so early applications are encouraged.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The key responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to:
- To assist with the planning of the curriculum by providing safe, creative and appropriate educational opportunities for all children within an inclusive environment, preparing activities, organising programmes and arranging equipment
- To ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner in accordance with statutory responsibilities, and to advise the room leader of any concerns over children, equipment etc.
- To follow all school policies, including those regarding safeguarding and confidentiality
- To contribute to the school’s highest standards of physical and emotional care, health and safety, and personal and food hygiene at all times
- Working creatively with children within the EY framework, as instructed by the room leader
- To be involved in positive interactions with children by supporting or providing stimulating activities that respond to their interests and developmental needs
- Ensuring all children have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
- Working with range of people including school staff, visiting professionals and agencies, parents, children and families,
- Understanding and being able to implement inclusive practices into the setting, to ensure all children have the opportunity to learn, interact and fulfil their potential
- Working with the room leader to establish an appropriate safe and secure learning environment.
- Promoting positive values, attitudes and good child behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encouraging children to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Having a positive approach to continuous professional development
- To actively promote and support the safeguarding of children and young people in the workplace, ensuring the nursery school’s policies and procedures are observed at all times.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
Essential
- Ability to plan effective learning and care programmes either under appropriate supervision and guidance or in collaboration.
- Experience of working with children in an Early Years environment.
- Proactive and positive team player
- Ability to evaluate own learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
- Able to relate well to children and adults including colleagues, other professionals and parents
- Ability to demonstrate and promote good practice in line with the ethos of the school
- Good written, verbal and non verbal communication
- Willingness to participate in other development and training opportunities
About St Anthony's School for Boys
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Brief History
St Anthony’s is a Catholic Preparatory School (IAPS) for boys aged 4 – 13. It is Roman Catholic but welcomes boys of other faiths. There are currently over 310 pupils on roll and the school is looking to increase this number to 330 over the next few years. The majority of boys transfer to leading Independent schools.
St. Anthony’s school was founded by Richard Patton during the Victorian period in Eastbourne. It moved to its Hampstead location in 1952 and has been managed by the Alpha Plus Group since 2009.
Ethos and values
The school operates a two-form entry with approximately 20 boys in each class from Reception up to and including Year 6. About half the year group leave St Anthony’s to join Year 7 senior schools including UCS, City of London and Highgate. The remaining pupils stay on to prepare for Common Entrance at the end of Year 8 before proceeding to leading boarding and day schools such as Harrow, Eton, St Paul’s and Westminster.
The school is not super-selective and promotes a caring, nurturing environment promoting the holistic education of each child. We speak of St Anthony’s as a greenhouse rather than a hothouse! Pastoral and academic expectations are high amongst parents and staff. The school adds significant value to pupils’ learning and there is great emphasis on regular communication between boys, staff and pupils.
St Anthony’s achieved ‘Excellent’ in all categories of the ISI full-school inspection in November 2019 - the school is now pursuing an ambitious development plan incorporating digital literacy with outstanding academic, pastoral and co-curricular provision.
Our School is part of the Inspired Education Group
Inspired Education is the leading global group of premium schools, with over 100 premium private schools spanning six continents providing premium education to over 80,000 students ensuring they all receive a first-class learning experience from Kindergarten to Year 13.
We offer you the chance to work/live in an exciting new location, collaborate with passionate educators, develop your skills, and grow in a role that inspires you.
Please visit our careers site for further information and to see our latest opportunities - https://careers.inspirededu.com/
About Inspired
Inspired students benefit from the unique global connectivity of premium schools that are anchored in their local communities.
The individuality of every student is unlocked through a holistic curriculum focused on the three pillars - Academics, Sport and Performing Arts, to ensure every student achieves their full potential.
Through this global approach, we aim to inspire and prepare students to be global citizens, ready to seize their exciting futures and truly flourish with the confidence and attitude needed to thrive in their ever-changing world.
Inspired schools are among the highest performing in the world, most are non-selective and are proud to add considerable value to every student. These Schools regularly achieve highly in league table rankings across the world.
Most importantly, Inspired students not only attain outstanding academic results but also graduate to some of the best universities and careers in the world.
What we can offer you as an employee
We offer a warm and friendly environment for our staff and foster an atmosphere of collaboration and support. Inspired Education values staff training and the development of the individual. There are regular training forums held throughout the group so staff have an opportunity to network and share good practice. Every member of the teaching staff is issued with a Surface Pro laptop and the classrooms are well equipped.
Inspired Education offers its staff a number of benefits:
- Employee Health Assistance Programme. This is a confidential employee benefit which is available to all staff. It is designed to help you deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing.
- Discounted School Fees. All permanent staff employed by the Alpha Plus Group will qualify for 50% discount on school fees for their children in Reception class or above, nurseries and colleges (for day pupils) where we have places. Our admission policies will apply to all applicants. Part time staff will have their school fees adjusted proportionate to their part time hours.
- Group Pension Scheme
- Salary Exchange Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
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