Summary

Working in a school as a PE Teaching Assistant Apprentice, your role will involve supporting the class teacher during lessons, assisting the teacher in maintaining a purposeful, supportive learning environment and assisting with the delivery of extra curriculum/lunchtime activities. Within this apprenticeship there will be additional training in PE

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supporting teachers and students during practical work, to include setting up demonstrations and equipment, providing guidance to pupils in the development of their tasks, including the safe operation and demonstration of equipment
• To assist with overseeing the work of small groups of students engaged in practical tasks, as requested by the PE coordinator/lead and under the supervision of the classroom teacher
• Day-to-day support of lessons including preparing equipment, materials and teaching aids
• To support with efficient organisation of the work and storage areas and to ensure the cleanliness, safety and security of these areas at all times
• To assist with the delivery of extra curriculum/lunchtime activities
• Supporting with classroom activities in the morning

Where appropriate for the above activities, support staff with:

• Preparation of equipment, materials and rooms: setting out of equipment, organising team kits and transport for fixtures and curriculum activities
• Working as a team member within your school and gaining invaluable experience

Employment

Employer

Welcome to William Ransom - we are a two-form entry (60 children per year group), state-funded, non-selective community primary school for children of Reception age (4 years old) through to Year 6 (11 years old) in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. WR is a happy, ambitious and inclusive school. Our teaching team is characterised by its dynamic, creative and caring approach. We are always seeking to learn and improve and we go the extra mile for our pupils to have the opportunity to do the same. We have a very strong sense of community here and we work hand-in-hand with our parents, as partners, to offer every child as many opportunities as we can. We believe that enjoyment is the key to academic and personal success. We do our very best to ensure that our children enjoy their learning journey, that it inspires and comfortably challenges them. We regularly reflect on what the children are learning and why, to ensure that we are preparing our children, as best we can, for the world that awaits them and for types of employment that may not yet exist. We want every child who attends WR to leave with strong academic achievement and high levels of self-confidence, self-worth and self-belief. We build in regular opportunities for our children to be able to engage with the world outside of school, be that through visitors to the school, trips and experiences, or competing against or collaborating with local schools. These varied experiences shape our children, but in order to take as much as they can from them, we fundamentally believe that every child has to feel as though they belong. We want every child to leave WR at the end of Year 6 having had a rich range of experiences, to have achieved a high level of academic success and to have a strong sense of belonging, that they have been listened to and heard and that staff and children at WR really know them as individuals and understand them.

Training Provider

Training To Be Provided

• Teaching Assistant Level 3 - Apprenticeship Standard (A level) 
• Depending on area, you will be assigned a tutor and training will be blended - involving both virtual and face-to-face
• Training will be weekly and, off-the-job training hours will be logged
• You will be working with an E-portfolio (BUD System) and alongside your tutor you will be assigned a mentor from within your workplace
• Following a successful Gateway meeting you will move forward for an End Point Assessment - Upon successful completion of the EPA you will achieve a Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship
• Functional skills if required
• Your tutor will visit for observations in the workplace

How To Apply

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