Teaching Assistant - Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - The Astley Cooper School

The Astley Cooper School
The Astley Cooper School
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The Astley Cooper School

Hertfordshire

  • New
  • Expiring soon
  • Salary:
  • Actual pro rata salary £17,056 £21,131 (depending on experience)
  • Job type:
  • Full Time, Permanent
  • 4 December 2023

Job overview:

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic, professional and knowledgeable Teaching Assistant to join our SEND team.

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to work with children with various Special Educational Needs providing 1:1 and small group support.

The Astley Cooper School is an increasingly popular oversubscribed secondary school in Hemel Hempstead. At Astley Cooper, we strive for the very best for all our staff and students. The school is situated at the edge of Hemel Hempstead, serving a diverse demographic. The school is within easy access of the M1/M25 and the train station.

The school is proud to be part of the Government's Priority School Building Programme. This huge investment in our school has seen our cohort numbers increase as well our profile in the community.

The school has state of the art facilities including a leisure centre, swimming pool and new science laboratory/classrooms benefiting staff, students and our wider community for many years to come.


We are committed to ensuring that when students leave, they have become successful, well-rounded, and confident individuals prepared to succeed in the modern world.

As a school we are pleased to be able to offer:

  • A competitive salary
  • Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
  • Vivup a HCC cash back scheme
  • A comprehensive CPD programme for all colleagues
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The Astley Cooper School:

- _ The Astley Cooper School_
- _ St. Agnells Lane, Hemel Hempstead_
- _ Hertfordshire_
- _ HP2 7HL_
- _ United Kingdom_
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The Astley Cooper School is an 11-18, co-educational, secondary school on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.


For many years, Astley Cooper School was a smaller than average secondary school but its numbers are rising because of its considerably improved academic standards and good reputation.

The school is proud to be part of the Government's Priority School Building Programme. This huge investment in our school has seen our cohort numbers increase as well our profile in the community.

The school has state of the art facilities including a leisure centre, swimming pool and new science laboratory/classrooms benefiting staff, students and our wider community for many years to come.


Extra curricular activities on offer to all students at the school include sport, art, music, drama, dance, residential and cultural trips and visits.

In 2019 the school won the Inspiring Hertfordshire Award for Education in Employment.


Headteacher
Sam Orsborne, BA Hons; QTS; NPQH


Curriculum Aims
At Astley Cooper, we strive for the very best for all our students.

We are committed to ensuring that when students leave, they have become successful, well rounded and confident individuals prepared to succeed in the modern world.

Our core values of Aspiration, Determination and Integrity underpin our curriculum.

We achieve this by delivering the highest possible academic standards and offering students a wealth of opportunities within and beyond the national curriculum to develop their talents.

Our curriculum is created using our core values


We want to create:

  • Aspirational individuals who go above and beyond and lead safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
  • Determined learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
  • Students who have integrity and make a positive contribution to society


The progressive curriculum we deliver at Astley Cooper ensures students have the skills, concepts and knowledge to progress successfully through the Key Stages.

The curriculum is built to ensure the knowledge and skills learned in Key Stage 2 continue to be developed further through Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.

Departments' Schemes of Learning are carefully planned to ensure skills and techniques are developed each year and built on prior knowledge.


Astley Cooper describes itself as 'an ambitious school where students' aspirations are rising.' It aims to create a calm, purposeful, friendly community where there is mutual respect between adults and students.


Ofsted
'Leaders have continued to raise aspirations for Astley Cooper pupils and for students in the sixth form' (Ofsted _Good _School, 2021)

View The Astley Cooper School's latest Ofsted report

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