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Our school has a well deserved reputation for being a caring and very child centred environment. This isn't a school where children are viewed in terms of their SATs potential. Our ethos is set out on our website and I would urge you to look at it. At a time when the corporate approach of academy chains is increasingly to the fore, traditional schools like St Peter's are becoming rarer. Parents appreciate what we offer and we are now oversubscribed and our roll has grown from 167 children some 9 years ago, to 205 currently.
However, despite this, we are fighting against budget constraints, in keeping with most other small primary schools. Recruitment has been stymied by the limitations of our budget. But we are now seeking a TA to join us on a part time basis. We would love to have you full time, but we can't afford that as yet.
We have HLTAs who cover the PPA provision in a number of KS2 classes. Your immediate role would be to act as the class TA in those classes during the PPA sessions, assisting the HLTA. These sessions would run on Wednesday-Friday afternoons inclusively. If you just wished to work those three afternoons, we could accommodate you. However, if you needed to work for all five afternoons, or for the whole of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we could also accommodate that. We must cover Wednesday-Friday afternoon; we can be flexible over the other hours. If you wished to work all of the afternoons or three full days, you would be providing general support in KS2 classes.
This would be a permanent contract for a suitably experienced candidate. If you haven't quite the experience we would wish, we may discuss a temporary contract for the remainder of the academic year, whilst we assess your full capabilities. Then, if appropriate, we would appoint you on a permanent basis. We would like to aim towards a permanent appointment to provide stability to our staff team.
If you chose to work for the full three days, we would ask you to start work at 8.15, prior to the children coming into school at 8.30, so that you have time to liaise with the class teacher. You will finish at 3pm when school ends. If working full days, you would have a 30 minute lunch break and work for the other 30 minutes helping to supervise lunch, in keeping with our other TAs.
If you wished to work just the afternoons, we would ask you to begin at 1pm and finish at 3pm. The normal pay scale is Kent Scheme A, which equates to an hourly rate of £12.71.
We would wish you to start work here as soon as possible, but we can wait for the right candidate if required. We would encourage you to get in touch for an informal discussion about the position and we would then love to show you around our school.
St Peter’s Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expects staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to full safer recruitment procedures, and enhanced DBS checks are required for this post.