Teaching Assistant - KS2 - Catholic Primary School in Islington

Job description

Year 6 1:1 LSA, Islington (Holloway Road Station)

A lovely two form entry mainstream school in Islington, N7 are recruiting for a Year 6 Learning Support Assistant to join their incredible team. The school is a 13 minute walk to Holloway Road station (Piccadilly line). The school is rated 'Good' by Ofsted and continues to progress.

The school have a highly effective senior leadership team whose members work alongside you to deliver strong outcomes for all pupils. The school monitors and evaluate the learning in great detail and this has ensured that good standards have been maintained and strengthened since the last Ofsted inspection.

The role:

Role: Year 6 LSA

Position type: Full-time, until the end of the academic year and into September

Experience in KS2 required

Main Pay - Up to £1400 per month!

Requirements: Experience working with learners with ASD

Successful Year 6 LSA:

• The Learning Support Assistant must be extremely driven, reliable and hard-working
• Teacher displays a clear and thorough understanding of the curriculum
• Secure knowledge and skills relating to strategies in working with pupils of all achievement levels.
• An interest, motivation and passion for working with special needs children and developing skills to facilitate this

The school:

Classrooms are inviting and attractive and the corridors are filled with colourful displays to reflect the rich diversity of the school. This makes pupils feel proud of their school and gives them a strong sense of belonging. The school is voluntary aided, mixed gender, state faith Catholic Primary School. The school are part of the Archdiocese of Westminster and the London Borough of Islington.

This is a busy and friendly school with 475 pupils from the ages of 3 to 11. All the staff are extremely to be apart of a successful school that promotes and entwines traditional values with effective education.

The school also promotes additional enrichment activities such as; Mad Hatter's Tea parties, Christmas lunch and jumper day, Easter Bonnet parade and Spelling Bee. The school promotes every child's goals and provides an environment where every single student is encouraged to reach them

''Our ultimate aim is to prepare your child as a good citizen for a rapidly changing world''.

The school has a '3-5-7 Vision':

• To go forward together in Christ
• To respect our neighbour
• To always give of our best

Working for Teaching Personnel:

Through Teaching Personnel's continued partnership with Leeds Trinity University and the Bradford & Keighley Catholic School Partnership, we can offer jobseekers choice, variety, regular work and excellent rates of pay alongside specialist CPD courses.

Our ideal candidates are practitioners who are committed, enthusiastic and have experience of working in a classroom environment. Experience of working in a Catholic environment is not essential, but candidates would be expected to support the Catholic ethos when working in schools.

If you would like to work in schools through Teaching Personnel's Catholic Schools Recruitment Partnership, we would love to hear from you. Registration with Teaching Personnel is simple and to accommodate as many registrations as possible we offer flexible registration appointments from 7AM to 6PM.

CPD Courses currently available:

• Team-teach
• Child Protection Training
• The Prevent Duty
• Understanding Autism
• Moving and Handling

At Teaching Personnel we offer a number of discounts (up to 85%!) on courses which can help you with your development as a Teaching Assistant and aspiring Teacher or School Psychologist! Some of the courses we offer are: