Dance Specialist
Harris Primary Academy Mayflower, Chafford Hundred, Essex, RM16 6SAThis job expired on 31 August 2022 – see similar jobs
Closing date
31 August 2022 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 August 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 38 weeks per year, 22.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 4 Point 7 (Outer London): £23,400 FTE
Actual salary
- £11,750.40
Additional allowances
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.
We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Dance Specialist job summary
Inspire and transform learning with us. Support local children as a Dance Specialist at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower.
As our dance specialist, you will:
- Teach primary-age children the PE curriculum with a focus on dance
- Plan, prepare, deliver and assess a range of dance lessons and extra-curricular clubs
- Ensure all equipment associated with the PE session is correctly set up, maintained, stored and returned on completion of the PE session
- Establish professional Ârelationships and communicate with line manager and staff
- Be responsible for agreed enrichment activities
- Ensure all students identified for support are given every opportunity to access the curriculum
- Highlight each student's learning needs to the class teacher and agree how they will be supported in lessons
- Monitor identified students in lessons, providing teachers with feedback on participation and progress
- Support identified students to engage with the learning objectives set for the lesson
- Use the Academy's behaviour management strategies to contribute to creating a purposeful learning environment
- Maintain records of students' progress in relation to their targets
- Contribute to evaluation, review and target setting of provision maps.
- Support teachers in creating a positive learning environment
- Join a curriculum team and be responsible for the organisation of resources linked to that team
- Supervise students as part of playground duties
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have:
- GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths – Grade C or above
- UKCC Level 2 qualification(or higher) in any dance or appropriate equivalent qualification
- HLTA qualification
- Experience of delivering dance lessons Âto young people aged between 5 and 11 in a school environment
- Knowledge of the PE National Curriculum and ability to deliver the curriculum through sport
- The ability to encourage and inspire young people through dance
- Energy and enthusiasm to improve the learning of all students
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to use own initiative
- Effective team worker
- Ability to work in a flexible way
- Ability to show sensitivity in complex situations
- Good organisational skills
- Aspirations to raise own academic achievement in the future
Safeguarding Notice
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.ÂBefore applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.
Equal Opportunities
The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Primary Academy Mayflower
- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 1028 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisprimarymayflower.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0203 772 4588
Harris Primary Academy Mayflower is a successful academy that was judged outstanding in every category in our May 2017 Ofsted inspection.
We are a 5 form entry primary school, opening with a Reception cohort and are growing by a year group at a time with currently 902 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 6. This will make our academy, which was funded under the free school programme with backing from Thurrock council, the Department for Education and the Harris Federation which sponsors the free school, the biggest primary free school in the country.
We are a sister school to Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred and Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, along with the other Academies in the Harris Federation. We work very closely together and share the very best practice and leadership knowledge and capacity to make the education we offer outstanding. Our shared belief is that children thrive when they feel consistently happy and safe at school and our commitment to excellence is encapsulated in our vision statement: "Excellence, Every child, Every day."
Our Core values of : Manners, Perseverance, Responsibility, Community and Achievement, underpin everything that happens at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower. They are our foundations and we have a clear expectation that all adults as well as children and staff model and respect these values both inside and outside the academy. These foundations have enabled us to build high quality, inspiring education for our children since the academy opened. This is reflected in both the exceptional day to day practice here as well as the outstanding outcomes our children have achieved in each year.
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