Midday Supervisor
Norwood Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 7DZ19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Hours: 6.25 hours per week (Term time only) Timings: 12:00 – 1:15pm Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Point 2
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about working with children and making a positive impact?
Are you looking for a part time, term time only role?
Are you reliable, flexible and committed to being a valuable team member?
If so, you would be an ideal candidate for a Midday Supervisor at Norwood Primary School.
Your role:
- Keeping pupils safe at all times;
- Supporting pupils in the dining hall to collect their lunch;
- Support with cutting food and ensuring pupils have eaten well;
- High expectations and reinforcing good table manners;
- Supporting pupils to play in a kind and fair manner;
- Address behaviour in line with our behaviour policy;
- Clean tables and benches, and put these away.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer well-being support and professional development.
A friendly environment and our school is committed to developing learners who, through quality education, provision, resources and environment, reach their full potential in all areas of our broad and balanced curriculum. We work as a strategic team across all job roles to implement learning and teaching strategies that enable children to acquire and develop a range of skills and knowledge.
Further details about the role
JOB DESCRIPTION – MID DAY SUPERVISOR
Salary Point 2
Norwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Responsible to: Head Teacher, or Deputy Head Teacher
Purpose of the Job: To ensure the security and care of the pupils of the school and to promote their social development during the lunch time period.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To supervise pupils, during the lunch period, in dining hall, playground areas and school premises, ensuring the safety, welfare, physical and mental well-being of pupils and the maintenance of good order and discipline.
2. To report to the Co-ordinator* at the beginning of the lunch period and receive any instructions with regard to duties.
3. To monitor the behaviour of pupils, discouraging in a positive way, any anti-social behaviour and reporting any incidents to the Co-ordinator* as appropriate.
4. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, providing emotional support where necessary.
5. To arrange and supervise appropriate activities under the direction of the Co-ordinator*.
6. To ensure that all pupils who suffer any injury or accident are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the school’s agreed procedures.
Dining Hall
7. On entering the dining hall, ensure that pupils have washed their hands.
8. To organise dinner queue and entrance of pupils into dining hall and from dining hall to playground: ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere. To deal with any misbehaviour that may occur in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy. Report, as appropriate, incidents to Co-ordinator*.
9. To encourage all pupils to eat but especially those with special needs or disabilities and to assist children with cutting up of food, pouring of water etc. where necessary.
10. To encourage social skills and good table manners, ensuring safety with knives and forks.
11. To clean up spillages of food and to organise clearing cutlery and crockery off tables.
Playground
12. Where appropriate, to collect pupils from classroom ensuring that they are adequately dressed for the weather conditions.
13. To supervise and control entrance and exit to school premises by pupils during the lunch break. Check on any strangers who may enter the school grounds and report any concerns to the co-ordinator*.
14. To ensure that pupils who leave the school site have permission to do so.
School Premises
15. To supervise pupils on the school premises in the hall, classrooms and through corridors, when they are not allowed outside, because of inclement weather.
16. To ensure that, when classrooms are used during the Midday break, because of inclement weather, that the children are quietly occupied and that the classroom is left tidy, ready for afternoon school.
17. To check toilet areas regularly to ensure that they are clean and being used appropriately. To report any problems to the Co-ordinator*.
18. To:
- take part in training appropriate to the job of midday supervisor.
- take part in any appraisal arrangement made by the school.
- undertake any other duties consistent with the purpose of the job.
* or Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher as agreed.
Commitment to safeguarding
Norwood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to office@norwoodschool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Norwood Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 203 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Norwood Primary School website
- Email address
- office@norwoodschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01733 574717
Norwood Community Primary School is a single form entry primary school in Gunthorpe which is on the North East outskirts of the diverse city of Peterborough. Our catchment area is made up of predominately owner occupied dwellings with mainly families from a white British background, however due the changing dynamics of the area, a greater diversity of social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds are joining our school and community.
We have a maximum of 30 children per year group from Reception through to Year 6 and annually our Reception places are much sought after by families dwelling both in and out of catchment addresses.
Arranging a visit to Norwood Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@norwoodschool.co.uk.
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