Gap Year Assistant
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Hammersmith and Fulham
- New
- Salary:
- £8.75 per hour
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 6th January 2025
- Apply by:
- 4 October 2024
Job overview
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School is a successful IAPS Preparatory School in West London providing education of the highest quality for 420 boys and girls aged from 4 to 11 years. The School was last inspected by ISI in November 2021 and received the grade of ‘excellent’ in all categories.
Gap Year Assistant for Spring Term 2025
Spring Term: 6th January to Friday 28th March 2025
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Gap Year Assistant to join our happy and dynamic team for the Spring Term 2025. The ideal candidate will have a passion for working with children and they will enjoy supporting our class teachers in providing a high-quality holistic education for our children. A substantial element of the role will be to support our PE and Games department, so an enthusiasm for sport is a requirement of the position.
This is a term-time only position (to include staff training days). The hours of work are from 08:00 to 16:00 on days when not assisting with an after-school club, and from 08:45 to 16:45 on days when assisting with clubs.
The hourly rate is £8.75 per hour.
Applications should be made by covering letter, accompanied by a fully completed application form which can be downloaded from our school website. Please send completed applications to Mrs Charlie Hayden, Head's PA, by email to careers@rpps.co.uk.
Further information can be found on our website: https://www.rpps.co.uk/about-us/join-our-team
Closing date: Noon on Friday 4th October 2024
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview. We reserve the right to close the application process early if we are able to appoint a strong candidate, so early application is advised.
All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of gender, race, religious belief, marital status or disability. Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applications will be subject to checks with past employer and an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. Our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies can be found on our website: http://www.rpps.co.uk/policies.html
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About Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School is a lively, co-educational and inclusive independent school for children from 4 to 11 years old. There is a palpable sense of community at RPPS, and visitors often comment on the warm and happy atmosphere, and the family feel that they notice around the school. Our holistic approach to education means that we place great importance upon the intellectual, physical, social and spiritual development of each child, and our talented and dedicated teaching team nurtures and inspires the children so that they flourish academically and emotionally.
We encourage our children to develop a ‘growth mindset’ approach towards their learning so that they appreciate the value of practice, hard work and responding to feedback from their teachers and peers. Our pupils are encouraged to take risks, to embrace challenging activities and to view any mistakes that they make along the way as valuable opportunities for further learning, rather than something to be afraid of.
When our pupils emerge at the end of their education and enter the world of work, it will be a very different environment to the one which exists today. We provide opportunities for our children to communicate and collaborate, to think creatively, to persevere with a challenging activity and to be resilient when things don’t go to plan. We encourage our pupils to be adaptable so that they can apply their learning to new activities and questions. We believe that these qualities of communication, collaboration, creativity, perseverance, resilience and adaptability will enable each child to make a valuable contribution to the workplace of the future.
Our children are well prepared for the 11+ examinations in Year Six and we work closely with parents to select the right school for each child.
All pupils are equipped with the essential qualities of kindness and compassion so that, when each child leaves, he or she is skilled and confident to make the most of all the opportunities on offer.
We form strong and trusting partnerships with our parents. We operate an ‘Open Door Policy', where parents’ comments, views, contributions and suggestions are valued. We also welcome parents’ direct support with activities such as hearing children read, accompanying day visits and at special events throughout the year.
This website will give you a glimpse of life at RPPS. Please do explore it thoroughly and I hope you will be inspired to come along to one of our Open Mornings to see for yourself what makes our school such a special place.
I very much look forward to meeting you and your children at RPPS in the near future.
Mr Carl Howes
Headmaster
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