Student Support Assistant

2 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Full time

**STUDENT SUPPORT ASSISTANT (Junior School)**

**Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School**
To start February 2023 or earlier. Fixed term appointment until July 2024.

**THE POSITION**

A normal day would include meeting our student at school at around 7.45am and caring for them, within lessons and during some break-times, until the end of the school day. This will include toileting, transfers to and from a standing frame and other elements of personal care. There is some flexibility required, the day will end between 3.30pm and 4pm when our student is collected by parents. The exact finish time of each day will depend on extracurricular clubs.

**THE JUNIOR SCHOOL**

Coursing through the veins of the Junior School community are our 4 Superpowers. We expect the children, the staff and the parents to practice and demonstrate these qualities as often as they can in their everyday lives.

Sharing the site of the Senior School, the Junior School caters for boys and girls aged 7-11 with three parallel classes in Year 3 and Year 4 (approx. 20 per class) and three classes in Years 5 and 6 (approx. 24 per class), to give a total school roll of 265 presently. Selection is based on performance during Assessment Days for Year 3 entrants and an entrance Examination and Activity Day for Year 5 applicants.

The majority of the teaching takes place in the purpose-built buildings of Lambton House, for Years 3 and 4, and Brandling House for Years 5 and 6. Dedicated Art & Design Technology rooms in Lambton House and a Science lab in Brandling House set the standards for educational provision within the Junior School.

Children also benefit from the superb Senior School facilities. These include the Performing Arts Centre and the sports facilities which include a six-lane 25-metre swimming-pool; two sports halls; fitness, weights and aerobic dance facilities; and changing-rooms to accommodate all the school’s foreseeable sporting needs. On-site, the school has an excellent all-weather hockey (multi-use) pitch, netball courts, tennis courts and one rugby pitch. For cross-country running, both Senior and Junior Schools use the adjoining Exhibition Park and Town Moor, on the edge of which we have three more rugby pitches and one football pitch.

The Junior School curriculum is wide yet balanced, taking account of the National Curriculum, but not dictated by it, and aims to provide exciting and interesting opportunities for learning. Teaching Years 3 and 4 is predominantly in the charge of a class teacher and becomes more specialist and in Years 5 and 6 before transfer (without further assessment/selection) to the Senior School.

We aim to nurture a love for learning which helps our pupils achieve excellent KS2 SATs results, but more importantly, helps them to develop qualities that are crucial in the real world: curiosity, open-mindedness, resilience, resourcefulness collaboration and reflection.

In the Junior School, we encourage children to develop their abilities through active participation, and we pride ourselves on the wide range of activities and extra-curricular opportunities on offer. Sometimes it seems as if Junior School students are never in school

We have a comprehensive programme of outdoor activity. Currently Year 5 have a residential visit to the North Pennines, whilst Year 4 have a wonderful week in the stunning location of Patterdale in the Lake District. Year 6 spend the second week of the autumn term under canvas up in the Cheviots, at Kirknewton near Wooler and Year 3 have an overnight stay in the Centre at the same place in the summer term. Further afield students travel at Easter to ski in the French Alps and we are hoping to launch a Year 6 Sports Tour in the near future.

In sport, we want all boys and girls to participate, whilst also aiming for excellence, and there are inter-house competitions and school teams for rugby, hockey, football, netball, cross-country running, swimming, cricket, rounders, athletics, chess and gymnastics. These sports have clubs during the week (before, during and after school) and there are further clubs for fitness, fundamental movement and fencing. Teams compete at the highest levels. The school regularly has National Champions at gymnastics and swimming, and regional and HMC champions in rugby, hockey, chess and athletics.

Performing Arts in the Junior School are also of major importance, and the quality of music and dance performers and performances is tremendous. For example, the annual Dance Championship provides opportunity for display in all genres for boys and girls to celebrate their keenness for artistic movement; and the House Music event always showcases phenomenal individual talent.

**PEOPLE**

The RGS Junior School has 19 members of teaching staff, and four teaching assistants. There is some staff cross-over into the Junior School from Senior School staff in Music, Dance, Computing and PE/Sport. Junior School staff are supportive, and the Staff Room is

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