Classroom Assistants

Hadrian is a school for primary aged children with a wide range of additional needs including complex, profound and multiple learning disabilities, severe and moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, physical, perceptual and sensory needs.

We help all our children overcome their personal difficulties through highly trained and expert specialist teaching, through our amazing therapeutic curriculum and resources and our partnership work with parents/carers and health professionals.

Since opening in September 1999 we have had three ‘outstanding’ OfSTED inspections as well as numerous accolades from HMI, Arts Mark, Govern Mark and many other providers.

We are uniquely positioned to develop and build upon our success having in place our own training company HEADS (Hadrian Education and Development Services) which provides access to specialist, high quality training all year round.

Working in a classroom environment could involve the following activities:

• Supporting PE, Trampoline, Hydrotherapy or swimming groups
• Supervising painting or 'messy' play activities and clearing up
• Working with tabletop activities, puzzles, matching games and computer work
• Reading stories or supervising play activities
•  Dance or Drama sessions
  
•  Supporting feeding programmes at lunch times or supervising in the playground
• Accompanying minibus outings and community based learning
• Preparing materials and resources
• Helping children with their independence by going on trips to Café or in the community

Please note: if you are not able or don’t wish to take part in the more physical aspects this is not an issue as you can help supervise on the pool side etc.  but it is an important element of the role in most classes to be physically fit.

Skills

• Consistent
• Reliable
• Confident
• Calm
• Enthusiastic
• Communicative
• team player
• understanding the needs of children who have themselves additional needs