Teaching Assistant
Cheam School
Hampshire
- Salary:
- Cheam offers a competitive salary according to experience and qualifications
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2024
Job overview
This is an outstanding opportunity for someone with energy and enthusiasm who is willing and capable of being part of a very happy and cohesive team that is driving the school forwards into a particularly exciting phase of its long and illustrious history. An ability to inspire children to produce and give of their best in the classroom is paramount.
The ideal person for this post will be someone who has a Level 3 NVQ, has literacy and maths skills to GCSE level, can produce a creative display of the children’s work and is prepared to be flexible. As well as working with the children in the classroom, the role includes playground duties, one after school activity duty and helping to supervise the children at lunchtimes. There is also an option to extend hours at the start of the day by helping to run breakfast club.
The Teaching Assistant will:
- Be able to communicate clearly and persuasively both orally and inwriting with children, staff and parents alike.
- Be well organized an hard-working with a good senses of humour.
- Be able to work calmly and accurately under pressure and show resilience where necessary.
- Be able to work collaboratively with colleagues within the school.
- Be prepared and able to initiate and manage change, where necessary.
- Be aware of, and devoted to, the educational needs of the individual pupil.
- Display absolute commitment to the highest standards of professional behaviour and to promote the welfare and safeguarding of children.
- Be proficient in the use of IT and to understand issues that arise in the use of digital learning within a school environment.
- Act at all times as an outstanding ambassador for the school.
- Be willing and able to contribute to the wider extracurricular and pastoral life of a busy day and boarding school.
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About Cheam School
Cheam was founded in 1645 and is one of the oldest prep schools in the world. Cheam is a IAPS boarding and day school with some 310 pupils, boys and girls, in the prep school and approximately 80 in the Pre-Prep and Nursery. Cheam prides itself on its excellent all-round record academically, musically, artistically and on the sports field. On completing their life at Cheam, children move to the top Public Schools in England, including Eton, Wellington, Marlborough, Radley, Harrow, Bradfield, Sherborne and St Mary’s Calne. The school is non-selective yet achieves consistently high standards academically through an inspirational and dedicated team of teachers, throughout the Pre-Prep and Prep Schools.
Cheam School is situated in a stunning rural setting of 100 acres, ten minutes from Newbury and fifteen minutes from Basingstoke, just off the A339. It is surrounded by smaller towns and villages from which it draws many of its day pupils.
At Cheam children are prepared not only for the next stage but for life beyond. The school nurtures and develops intellectual, personal, physical, emotional, creative and empathetic core values and skills in each pupil. This is done through the creation of a happy, stimulating environment in which pupils experience a diverse range of opportunities and are encouraged to ‘give it a go’ and strive to give of their best in all they do.
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