Teaching Assistant (Maternity Cover)
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Hammersmith and Fulham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive, commensurate with skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 16 May 2024
Job overview
Teaching Assistant for Key Stage 1 required from 1st September 2024
This is a maternity cover contract in the first instance
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.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our happy and dynamic team. The position will be supporting children in Key Stage 1. The successful candidate will have a passion for working with children and they will enjoy working within a year group team to support the class teachers in providing a high-quality holistic education for our children.
Applications are welcomed from experienced Teaching Assistants as well as from final year undergraduates who would be interested in gaining experience as a Teaching Assistant prior to training to become a teacher. A relevant Level 3 qualification would be an advantage.
The School was last inspected by ISI in November 2021 and received an excellent report, which can be viewed on our website.
Applications should be made by covering letter, accompanied by a fully completed application form which can be downloaded from this site and is also available on our school website. Please send completed applications to Mr Carl Howes, Headmaster, 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: 12.00pm on 24th May 2024.
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. Applicants who have lived outside of the UK in the past 5 years will be required to provide a Police Check from their country of residence. 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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