Teaching Assistant, Level 3, Full Time
St Catherine's RC School
Barnet
- £30,963 - £33,957 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Unified Reward Grade F, Full Time Equivalent.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 2nd September 2024
- Apply by:
- 15 July 2024
Job overview
St Catherine’s is a two form entry Catholic primary school for pupils 2-11 years. The school is friendly and welcoming and takes pride in offering an inclusive, caring and stimulating learning environment for its pupils. We have wonderful children, dedicated staff and strong partnerships with parents / carers. We believe in developing children with the skills to be great learners through a broad, balanced and creative curriculum.
We are looking to appoint a Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join the team at St Catherine’s for 5 days per week, from 08.30 to 15.45 daily (33.75 hours per week). This position is offered as a one year contract initially and will commence at the start of the autumn term.
You will need to have a Level 3 qualification or a similar amount of experience and should have carried out a Level 3 TA role before and have previous experience of covering classes on an ad-hoc basis. You must have sound knowledge of how children learn and a number of strategies to encourage learning. You will need to be sensitive to the special needs of individual children and be able to work as part of a team. Previous experience of working with special needs children on a one to one basis and running intervention groups would be useful. You need to be willing to work across all the age phases here at St Catherine’s (Nursery to KS2). You will need to be comfortable to cover classes for teacher absence across EYFS and Key Stages 1 and 2. Candidates will need to demonstrate initiative and enthusiasm and have excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
We can offer:
- A welcoming and positive Catholic community
- Children whose behaviour is exemplary and who are keen to learn
- Supportive and caring staff
- A strong commitment to innovative professional development
- A well-resourced environment.
The salary for this role will be within the range stated and dependent on qualifications, skills and experience.
Visits to the school are welcomed and encouraged. Please telephone the school office on 020 8440 4946 to make an appointment.
All application forms and other relevant information are also available on our website,
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About St Catherine's RC School
At St.Catherine’s we are committed to providing children of nursery and primary school ages with a child centered learning environment where all children flourish socially, emotionally, academically, physically and spiritually. Each child is encouraged to achieve their full potential and celebrate their uniqueness. At the heart of this is our strong caring ethos based on mutual respect and gospel values. The school actively promotes the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
St Catherine’s was considered by Ofsted as outstanding in Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes in 2022. Our children achieve in the top 20% of the country in reading, writing and maths. This confirms our commitment to high standards and expectations for all pupils.
Our children and their families tell us pupils are happy and feel safe. We encourage strong home school links where communication is key. We operate an open door policy where all members of our professional teaching and leadership team are available to discuss the children's progress/welfare. We pride ourselves on the strong partnerships we have built with all members of our community.
Key features of our school are:
- A creative, dynamic curriculum which takes account of the interest and needs of our diverse community.
- Newly opened Performing Arts Hub and a modern learning environment.
- Exciting playground with a multi use games area and a curriculum garden in which the children grow their own vegetables.
- Music specialist teaching from nursery to Year 6, school orchestra and choir.
- Language specialist teaching French from years 1 to 6.
- Specialist sports coach 5 days per week
- Forest School with dedicated Forest School Teacher
- New ipads and laptops for children and staff
- Successful PHSE programme where all pupils are encouraged to support each other including peer mentoring and a School Council.
- Exciting and varied class visits to support the curriculum.
- A commitment to wellbeing throughout the school
- Gold awards in Sports, Sustained Physical Activity, Emotional Health and Wellbeing and Rights and Respecting
Finally, it is the strong and committed team of staff, parents and governors which make our school the happy and successful place it is.
We are very proud of the standards of education and pupil engagement at St Catherine’s and our children are a testament to that.
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