Teaching Assistant
Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Hammersmith and Fulham
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- Spring Term 2025 initially, with the possibility of extending to the Summer Term
- Apply by:
- 3 January 2025
Job overview
Required as soon as possible after 6th January 2025 to work five mornings per week (08:00 to 12:00) for the Spring Term 2025.
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 was judged to be ‘excellent’ in all categories.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic part-time Teaching Assistant to join our happy and dynamic team. 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.
The School was last inspected by ISI in September 2024 and received an excellent report, which can be viewed on our website. We were awarded a ‘significant strength’ for our provision within Equality, Diversity and Inclusion."
Applications should be made by covering letter, accompanied by a fully completed application form. 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: Friday 3rd January 2025.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview at the School. 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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