Teaching Assistant Level 2EDV/2025/OCEPS/41711

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Oundle CE Primary School believes that all children should have an inspiring educational experience filled with fun and stimulating opportunities to learn, developing their curiosity and a love of learning. We understand the importance of fostering the knowledge and skills that are necessary as the foundations for their future education. We enjoy extending children’s learning through focusing on their interests and weaving that into their daily curriculum, creating a rich and entertaining learning environment with a heavy focus on outdoor learning and ‘real life’ hands-on learning.

We are excited to recruit for a Teaching Assistant to join our EYFS Team, helping ensure all children have the very best start in life and their educational journey. At Oundle, we are proud to support our pupils to ‘be the best we can be.’ Following a successful Ofsted inspection in November 2023, inspectors reported that our three threads of ‘joy, kindness and resilience’ are ‘weaved throughout life at school.’ In doing so, we seek to enable all pupils, regardless of their starting points, to flourish as individuals and reach their full potential.

The Successful Candidate Will Therefore:

• Be approachable, friendly and positive about their role in education and contribution to our whole school community.
• Be committed to supporting, motivating and challenging the learning of children of all abilities within the provision.
• Be a positive team player, able to work with all EYFS practitioners to create a dynamic and progressive approach to our extended EYFS setting.
• Display confidence in using a range of age-appropriate behaviour management and support skills.
• Have the ability to work effectively, flexibly and independently.
• Show initiative and creativity in different learning situations.
• Be passionate about children’s social and learning development, and well-being.
• Be keen to support the ethos of a church school.

Oundle Primary is a proud member of the Peterborough Diocese Education Trust. We are a family of 35 schools across the Peterborough Diocese, and these strong links make a special contribution to our children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and learning. PDET is responsible for employing all staff and managing finances and other central services for the academies within the Trust.

Oundle CE Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance.

Please note CVs will not be accepted and Application Forms should be completed in full. Any gaps in employment must be identified and justified. We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications, so please do not delay in applying!