Teaching Assistant Level 3 Apprenticeship at Ravenswood School

You will be providing support to the classroom teacher. Learning support staff play a vital role in today’s classrooms by making sure students get the most out of lessons. You will work with teachers and learning support assistants and make a real difference to learning in for our pupils.

You will be working with children with complex special needs and will need to provide a full enhanced DBS check.  You will work under the supervision of the class teacher; your duties may vary depending on how the teachers you work with plan their lessons and handle day-to-day classroom activities.

Duties will include:

• Supporting pupils’ learning, individually or in groups, with reading, writing, counting, computing, science and other subject work.
• Supporting pupils’ learning, with creative activities such as drawing, painting, music, singing and dancing.
• Reading stories to children and encouraging them to be interested in books.
• Supporting the pupil’s learning during PE, outdoor education or swimming lessons.
• Supporting a pupil to develop their communication skills.
• Helping the teacher prepare for lessons, collecting the materials and help keep records.
• Attending training around pupils’ SEND and putting this into practise.
• Supervising the playground at breaktimes and the dinner hall at lunchtime.
• Helping keep the classroom tidy.
• Putting up displays of children’s’ work.
• Photocopying materials for lessons.
• Supporting pupils to manage their own behaviours.