Core Requirements of the Post
- Motivate and stimulate a child's learning abilities, often encouraging learning through experience.
- Provide pastoral care and support to children within a secure learning environment.
- Aid the development of a child's personal, social, language and physical coordination abilities.
- Develop and produce visual aids and teaching resources.
- Encourage mathematical and creative development through stories, songs, games, drawing and imaginative play.
- Help children develop curiosity and knowledge.
- Plan and coordinate work both indoors and outdoors.
- Share knowledge gained with other practitioners and build and maintain relationships with parents.
- Observe, assess and record each child's progress.
- Ensure the health and safety of children and staff is maintained during all activities, both inside and outside the setting.
- Attend staff meetings and staff training days.
- Keep up to date with changes in the curriculum and developments in best practice.
Promoting a Positive School Culture
- Utilize grade level community meetings to promote the values and culture encompassed by the HLIS.
- Organize Early Years events and initiatives to promote the values and culture encompassed by the HLIS Promise.
- Celebrate student achievements and learner profile attributes through the lens of the HLIS Promise.
- Actively create opportunities and encourage ideas that allow students to display authentic leadership of themselves, their peers, and the wider school community.
- Actively support and promote the values and requirements of the educational programme.
- Effectively and correctly implement policy and procedures across their area of responsibility.
Skills
- Excellent communication and listening skills.
- Good organisational skills to plan the day and respond to the different needs of the children you teach.
- The ability to inspire and enthuse young children.
- Resourcefulness, patience, and a caring nature.
- An understanding of the needs and feelings of children.
- Ability to work independently with children, as well as being able to work in the wider Early Years/school team.
- A sense of humour and the ability to keep things in perspective.
- Ideas and creativity to plan resources and carry out activities such as dance, drama, music, arts, and crafts.
- Stamina to keep up with the needs and energy of a large group of lively children.
- Attention to detail for carrying out observations and reporting back to parents and other professionals.
Removing Barriers to Learning
- Devise and follow pastoral systems that optimize the academic and emotional wellbeing of the students.
- Provide extra support for students who have difficulty adhering to the expectations of HLIS.
- Liaise with the Learning Support department and Counselling department to help students overcome any barriers to learning.
- Ensure that the individual needs of every student are met.
- Provide effective and sensitive induction and transition programmes for students and their families.
- Allocate students to classes that balance a variety of considerations, including friendship groups, prior academic achievement, language needs, gender balance, LS needs, etc.
- Maintain your own informal student records based on information gathered.
- Be a visible presence in the lives of the students in the grade level and intervene with students needing extra support.
Safeguarding and Wellbeing
- Through developing relationships with parents and students, be alert to potential and actual safeguarding issues and report to the Safeguarding Team.
- Support the Safeguarding Team, as and when appropriate, to ensure a safe school environment for each and every student in the Early Years.
- Support the development of student wellbeing both proactively, planning events and initiatives; and reactively, by addressing incidents and themes relevant to the grade level.
Parent Communication
- Engage parents as partners in student learning - both socio-emotional and academic, leading to positive and effective contribution to raising standards.
- Respond to parental enquiries in a timely and empathetic manner.
- Actively promote the work of the Early Years Team, informally in conversation.
- Support the MAC team by providing content for social media, meeting prospective parents, and onboarding families.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Qualifications/Training
- Degree or teaching qualification - Essential.
Experience / Knowledge
- At least one year as an Early Years assistant - Essential.
- English (native level) - Essential.
- Personal commitment to continuing professional development - Essential.
- The monitoring, assessment, recording, and reporting of pupils' progress - Essential.
- The requirements of a class teacher to adhere to all school policies, particularly those pertaining to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, and Child Protection - Essential.
- Effective teaching and learning styles - Essential.
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