Teaching Assistant

**Orchard Park High School**
Croydon£24,329 - £24,725 per year

Expiring soon

**Job type**:

Full Time, Fixed Term21 September 2025**Job overview**:

- The Greenshaw Learning Trust is ‘Always Learning’
This is a fixed term contract until 17th July 2025 working 1:1 with a student in our Enhanced Learning Provision.Main duties and responsibilities:

- To support students with learning, physical, medical, emotional and behavioural difficulties to access the curriculum, make appropriate progress and develop appropriate classroom behaviour
- To actively promote and contribute to the school’s ethos and values
- To support teachers in facilitating and encouraging learning, which enables students to achieve high standards and to become independent learners

About Orchard Park High School:
Orchard Park is one of the most successful schools in the area, performing well above the national average for progress 8. The school is highly successful and we are proud of its ambitions and diverse community. We pride ourselves on routines, systems and excellence. We are a calm, happy and high achieving school, providing the very best education to all.About Greenshaw Learning Trust:
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.We can offer you:

- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation

Please download the recruitment pack for further information.-
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.Follow us on Facebook, X, and Linkedin. Further details can be found on our careers page.***:
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**About**Orchard Park High School**:
**Orchard Park High School**
- Orchard Way, Shirley, Croydon
Surrey
CR0 7NJ
United Kingdom
- +44 20 8776 0220Orchard Park is one of the most successful schools in the area, achieving excellent GCSE results well above the national average for progress 8. The school is proud of its ambitions and our diversity. We pride ourselves on routines, systems and excellence. Consequently we are a calm, happy and high achieving school full of warmth. The school is smaller than lots of large secondaries; every child is known and cared for.

Working with us is very rewarding: you will flourish as a member of staff whilst leading our pupils academically and pastorally, to be confident, capable and ambitious. You will care deeply about addressing disadvantages and giving every child the opportunities they deserve, creating a sense of belonging and motivation, establishing high expectations and rewarding success. Pupils behaviour is excellent. They listen attentively, speak politely, work hard and are welcoming. They are proud of their school.

The school’s leadership is not only committed to developing a school grounded in academic success, and the development of character, but also a school in which workload for staff is sensible, manageable and all tasks are impactful.

Orchard Park believes in evidence led approaches, teaching in a traditional manner built around explicit instruction. They firmly believe that teachers are the experts in the room, and teach from a high quality, knowledge - rich curriculum. The knowledge is carefully selected.

How do we reduce workload and increase well-being for teachers?
- High quality centralised curriculum resources
- Live marking in lessons and whole class feedback
- Centralised behaviour systems
- Highly visible and supportive SLT
- Carefully planned deadlines
- Free breakfast for all staff every day
- Fun Friday activities for staff as well as pupils

These are only some of the things we do to allow teachers to focus on the main thing, teaching grea