Teaching Assistant - Full-time

The working basis for the successful candidate will be on a fixed term basis until July 2025 in the first instance, 32.5 hours per week (8.30am - 3.30pm, Monday - Friday) during Term Time + 1 week inset. We offer a wonderful working environment with the friendliest staff and pupils!
What does the role involve? The main aim of this role is to support our teachers to deliver academic excellence, day in, day out, with professionalism and enthusiasm. This will involve providing a comprehensive support service to the Academy including:
+ Assisting students with their educational and social development, on an individual and group basis
+ Providing support for individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in activities
+ Assisting teachers with the maintenance of student records
+ Building and maintaining successful relationships with students, whilst treating them with respect and consideration
+ Provide expertise to deliver a personalised curriculum for each pupil's learning
+ Work together with families and other agencies to ensure every pupil is valued, challenged and supported
+ Have the highest expectation that every pupil will make sustained academic and personal progress
Each and every member of staff, regardless of their position or seniority, is expected to participate in the overall running of the school and to act as a positive role model for our students. In and out of the classroom you will encourage and promote positive behaviour and effectively manage any situation that threatens to impact on the progress of other students.

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We are looking for someone demonstrates the following:
+ Have high expectations of teaching and learning
+ To be a positive role model
+ To contribute to the positive ethos of the school
+ Be able to work collaboratively with a range of children and adults
+ Be keen to develop as a professional
+ Previous, recent experience in a similar education setting
+ Being independent and able to work under pressure

Working for the academy: Cherry Orchard Primary Academy is a highly successful two-form entry primary academy for students between the ages of 3 to 11 that opened in September 2017. The academy admits a maximum of 60 children into each year between Reception and Year 6 having initially opened with places available in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. We have continued to expand and from September 2021 we have children up to year 6 and with every year group at full capacity.
The academy enjoys modern facilities, a nursery for pre-school age children, and a small centre for children with speech, communication and language needs. At the heart of Ebbsfleet Garden City, Cherry Orchard Primary Academy is the focal point of this brand new community, providing local families with an outstanding educational facility.
At Cherry Orchard Primary Academy we will:
+ Inspire and engage our children so they develop a lifelong love of learning
+ Deliver a quality, inclusive education so all children are able to achieve to their full potential
+ Create a learning environment where children feel safe and happy so are confident and enthused to 'have a go'
+ Ensure that all children feel valued and celebrate their success at every opportunity
+ Provide learning experiences that include challenge for all, producing resilient and highly motivated learners
+ Have a consistent, focused approach to managing behaviour, safeguarding, pastoral support and embedding British Values across all year groups
+ Create a culture where staff work collaboratively as part of the wider team, sharing ideas and good practice and offering support to others.
Cherry Orchard Primary Academy has been judged as Outstanding by Ofsted at their recent inspection in November 2021, having been evaluated as outstanding in each of the five areas of inspection, Quality of Education, Behaviour and Attitudes, Personal Development, Leadership and Management and Early Years Provision.
COPA Mission Statement At Cherry Orchard Primary Academy, we are committed to providing a quality, inclusive education where all children are able to achieve their full potential, building on a firm foundation of secure reading, writing and number skills. We are passionate about creating a learning environment where children feel safe and happy, enabling all to develop into individuals who are confident to take risks and who are able to be actively involved in their learning. We are dedicated to providing learning experiences that challenge all pupils, fostering resilient, motivated learners who go on to become lifelong learners. Through a curriculum that encourages intercultural understanding within the local and global communities, we aim to nurture our pupils in becoming considerate and compassionate towards others, celebrating each other's differences. We are resolved to promote a culture where collaboration and community is highly valued, and where
we all work as part of a wider team who share good practice and offer support to others.
"Our state-of-the-art facility opened in Kent's Ebbsfleet Valley on 6th September 2017, offering outstanding educational experience for primary aged children.
Cherry Orchard Primary Academy is part of Leigh Academies Trust, one of the nation's most successful, medium-sized, multi-academy trusts. I will work closely with other schools and professionals within Leigh Academies Trust to develop a quality, inclusive education, where all children are able to achieve their full potential." - Julie Forsythe, Principal