Learning Support Assistant
King's House School
Richmond upon Thames
- New
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- £16.15 per hour
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 7 January 2025
- Apply by:
- 18 December 2024
Job overview
Fixed term contract (until 3 July 2025)
King’s House School was founded in Richmond in 1946 and has been a boys’ prep school since then until September 2024, when girls joined Reception and Year 1 for the first time as we move to co-education. Girls will also be joining our Senior Department from September 2025. The school operates on three sites in or around Kings Road, which is on the very pleasant setting of Richmond Hill. The Senior Department (for pupils from Year 4 to Year 8) is at 68 Kings Road, the Junior Department on its own site just down the hill, and the Nursery around the corner on Princes Road. The school also has a 35-acre sports ground just over Barnes Bridge, where there are numerous pitches, athletics facilities, cricket nets, tennis courts, two 3G pitches and all-weather pitch.
We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic Learning Support Assistant to support the needs of a child in our Junior Department.
How to apply: please complete the application form on our website https://kingshouseschool.org/application-form/
Closing Date: Wednesday 18 December 2024.
King’s House School is an equal opportunities employer that believes in equal opportunities for all, celebrates, and welcomes diversity. Employment decisions throughout the school are made without regard to any status protected by law.
Attached documents
About King's House School
King’s House School is an independent day preparatory school for boys aged three to thirteen with a co-educational Nursery. Located on Richmond Hill in south west London, it accommodates approximately 450 students.
King’s House School has three departments: the Nursery for rising 3 and 4 year olds; the Junior Department for Reception to Year 3, and the Senior Department for Years 4 to 8. The school is a charitable trust under the direction of a board of governors.
Headteacher
Mark Turner
Vision and values
The school strives to teach a curriculum that encourages and excites children to fulfil their potential, fostering a lifelong love of learning. Teachers aim to make every pupil feel valued. They instil British and community values into every pupil, especially tolerance and acceptance.
King's House values a broad and balanced academic and co-curricular education, and pupils benefit from specialist teaching across the school. Pupils also enjoy first-class sports facilities at the school's 35-acre Sports Ground over the river in Chiswick, which includes an all-weather and 3G pitch alongside cricket and rugby facilities. There are a wide range of clubs for pupils to take part in, including judo, chess, fencing, LAMDA and coding.
ISI report
“Throughout the school, pupils are extremely well educated and highly successful in their learning across all subjects and activities. The school successfully fulfils its aims to enable all pupils to develop their academic, social, sporting and artistic attributes.”
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