Primary Teaching Assistant

Are you an enthusiastic primary teaching assistant looking to make a meaningful difference? At Ark Victoria Academy, you’ll be joining a school where pupils thrive at every stage of their education (Ofsted 2024). Our vibrant and diverse community is united by strong values, high expectations, and a shared commitment to ensuring success for all our pupils.About the role:We are seeking a committed primary teaching assistant to join our fantastic primary team. We are looking for:Individuals who are passionate with high expectations of themselves and for the pupils they work withTeaching Assistants who share our aspirations for pupils and will inspire, challenge and motivate them to achieveA positive attitude, the ability to work well as part of a team and a love of readingWe can offer:Engaged, well-behaved pupils who love coming to school, enjoy their learning and are respectful, confident individualsA wide range of professional development opportunities including personalised CPD, coaching, mentoring and regular opportunities to share best practice across the academy and the Ark NetworkA staff team who truly support and care for each otherA leadership team who provide substantial support and training to their staff with a genuine focus on career progressionThe opportunities that working as part of an all-through provides including a wealth of resources, subject specialists and greater options for staff development working across the phasesHighly supportive parents who work with the school to provide the best education for our pupilsA genuine focus on staff wellbeing; our “Wellbeing Wednesday” treats have been very popular this year!If you are ready to add further value to our team of Primary TAs and to work alongside a brilliant school leadership team, then you will find this job extremely rewarding. About Ark Victoria AcademyArk Victoria Academy provides pupils with an excellent education through an ambitious curriculum, personal development and character programme, and an extensive student experience and extra-curricular offer. Although we are a large school, we are able to retain a family feel, to nurture our pupils through their schooling and ensure that they flourish and leave us with the skills and qualifications necessary to continue their journey of life-long learning in a university or career of their choice.Our school values and virtue pathways are crucial to our culture and ethos, they are also part of the way we work and learn together and have been instrumental to us on our school improvement journey. Our values of Ambition, Resilience and Kindness permeate our curriculum, our culture, school and our learning community.It is for these reasons that Ark Victoria Academy was judged to be significantly improved in all areas from the 2019 ‘Good’ inspection, by Ofsted, in October 2024: ‘This is a school which lives out its values in full for the benefit of children in Nursery to the pupils in Year 11…pupils thrive at all stages of Ark Victoria Academy…as the school knows its pupils very well, they are very well supported to engage with the school’s ambitious curriculum’. The full report (September 2024) can be found here: https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50262921.We prioritise staff