Role: Classroom Assistant
Location: London
Job Type: Full-time; Permanent
The Role
We are looking for a classroom assistant with strong literacy and numeracy skills and a professional approach to provide support to our teachers and students in the classroom, covering a variety of learning activities.
As a classroom assistant, you’ll support pupils in their educational, emotional and social development either individually, in groups or as a whole class.
Key responsibilities:
- Setting up equipment and helping to prepare the classroom for lessons, tidying up afterwards and helping with displays
- Enforce school and class rules to help teach students proper behaviour
- Providing support to children who need additional help with their work
- Help teachers with record-keeping, such as tracking attendance and calculating grades
- Carrying out administrative tasks
- Listening to children read, reading to them or telling them stories
Person specification:
- GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths; or graduate degree
- Knows they can make a real difference to the learning made by our children
- Has successful experience of working with young people ideally within a school environment
- Can work effectively with our teachers in the delivery of the national curriculum
- Has emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and attitudes
- Work well with small groups of children and report back on the progress being made
Desirable skills / expertise:
- Sensitivity and understanding for building good relationships with children
- Flexible and open to change for working on different activities
- Ability to create the best conditions for learning or teaching new things
- Good organisational skills
- Excellent time management skills