Temporary Library Assistant
Channing School
Haringey
- £30,639 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- £30,639 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- 17 March 2025 - 4 July 2025
- Apply by:
- 29 January 2025
Job overview
To assist the Acting Senior School Librarian in the day-to-day running of the library, including managing stock and circulation and supervising and registering pupils using the library. The Library Assistant will also be in sole charge of the library on two days when the Librarian is not in. Overall the Library Assistant will help provide a high standard of service to meet the needs of all pupils and staff.
The Senior School Library is central to school life and located at the heart of the main building. The library’s aims are to foster literacy, independent learning and a love of reading in all pupils, as well as to support teaching and learning across and beyond the curriculum.
The library is open from 8.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Monday - Thursday and from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on Fridays. It consists of four large rooms that have been joined together to form an open-plan space; three rooms are study areas and one has armchairs for reading for pleasure. There is also a smaller side room for private study and meetings. Fiction is located in the reading-for-pleasure area and non-fiction in the study areas. The library also has a growing collection of online resources.
Pupils in Y ears 7 and 10 have a course of 4-5 weekly library lessons, in which they are taught how to use the library and are given time to read and browse the collection. The library also delivers library inductions and research skills sessions tailored to specific subjects, the (Extended) Project Qualification in Years 10 and 13 and in other contexts where staff request it.
The library is also used during lesson time by pupils in Years 7-11 who have dropped subjects and pupils who have been excused from PE.
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About Channing School
The School
Awarded ‘Excellent’ in all areas inspected by ISI in 2022, Channing School is summed up by its vision, ‘Girls Enjoying Success’.
Girls at Channing enjoy academic success from a tailored educational programme that encourages confidence, independent thinking and provides girls with life skills to take on the next stage of their education as thoughtful, responsive, socially aware adults, prepared for the challenges of the world today.
Founded in 1885 by Unitarian sisters Emily and Matilda Sharpe, supported by Reverend Robert Spears, Channing School, named after notable American Unitarian William Ellery Channing, has been known as a successful, happy community. Remaining true to our Unitarian foundation, the School is an inclusive community that values the individual skills, spiritual beliefs, achievements and contribution of all members of the school community.
Academic achievement
Academic results are excellent – GCSE and A Level results consistently place us amongst the top-performing schools in the UK and London. Virtually all our sixth formers go on to HIgher Education, some after a gap year. Girls also excel in a very wide range of co-curricular and extra curricular activities, and especially in Music, Drama, Sport and Art.
Community spirit
The Head and members of staff know every girl personally and as an individual. We have a strong family tradition and an enthusiastic and supportive parents' association. The atmosphere is calm, focussed and purposeful. We set high standards emphasising concern and respect for the needs of others. A major feature of the school is the huge diversity of the extracurricular activities on offer to pupils and it is expected that all staff will contribute to this side of the life of the school. Opportunities exist for involvement in cultural, dramatic, sporting and intellectual pursuits and we like staff to assist in areas where they have a genuine interest and enthusiasm.
Exceptional setting
The school is in an attractive part of Highgate, with convenient transport links by road and underground. Visitors are often surprised at how light, green and open our site is. We have preserved the character of the older buildings, but completely refurbished and redesigned them to provide bright and spacious teaching rooms. Our ambitious £13m building programme, completed in 2017, has provided us with excellent dining facilities, a Music School, a new Sixth Form Centre, Sports Hall with fitness suite and a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Centre.
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