308 Education / Teaching jobs in Long Eaton, Derbyshire

Level 3 Teaching Assistant (EAL)

Leicester, Leicestershire

£17,272.97

Temporary

Crown Hills Community College

Dear prospective applicant,

In the top 12% of schools nationally, Crown Hills Community College blends a 70-year history of inclusive education with an innovative, forward-looking approach to providing a state education like no other to 1500 students from inner city backgrounds.

The school now seeks to appoint an exceptional individual to work alongside 200 other staff to make up our education family. Specifically, we are looking for a Bi-lingual Teaching Assistant preferably fluent in one of the languages spoken at CHCC to work as part of the English as an Additional Language (EAL) department.

You would join a well-established EAL department comprising the Head of Department, 3 EAL Specialist teachers (one Full-time and two part-time) and a team of 3 Bi-lingual Teaching Assistants. We currently have 77% of students for whom English is not their first language. Out of these students, 15% are known as International New Arrivals (INA's) having been in the UK for less than three years at the point of admission to Crown Hills Community College.

Over the past three years, the school has changed significantly not only in its performance but in the way it operates. We are not interested in the OFSTED grade or judgement and it is not something that we use to threaten staff with nor do we use it to set policy. We do what is best for the staff and the students underpinned by a set of clear values and we trust that everything else will take care of itself. I would therefore, urge you to visit us and to look at our website and the video about what it is that we stand for and why you would want to join us.

I want us to be at the forefront of educational excellence because we want to provide the best educational experience possible for the children in our care. This is extremely difficult in a climate of ever-increasing accountability and diminishing resources. However, I sincerely believe that if we lead this community by staying true to our values then it is possible.

I have therefore spent time with staff and exploring what it is we stand for and, after a school-wide consultation, we have decided that ASPIRATION, COMMITMENT and SUCCESS are the three key drivers that will support the development of our pupils.

We believe that the curriculum is king and that the way it is sequenced, will help our students to make progress. We have taken a very clear stance on knowledge-first teaching and place an emphasis on memory recall as well as responsive teaching. In order to be successful you need to buy into this pedagogy and practice as it underpins our philosophy and the way the curriculum should be delivered to our students. As a member of support staff who supports the delivery of the curriculum, it is important you understand and align to our college principles.

We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, poverty, wealth or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform and staff here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.

Please read the attached job description and person specification. If you are interested in applying, please fill in the application form available on our eteach portal, please include e-mail addresses of all referees, together with a letter of application (no more than 2 sides of A4, font 12) outlining your skills, qualifications and experience relevant to this post by 9am on Wednesday 4th June 2025. Please include your cover letter in the supporting statement section.

Interviews likely to be week commencing 9th June.

I look forward to receiving your application.

Yours sincerely,

Mr F Adam

(Principal)

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In the top 12% of schools nationally, Crown Hills Community College blends a 70-year history of inclusive education with an innovative, forward-looking approach to providing a state education like no other to 1500 students from inner city backgrounds.

The school now seeks to appoint an exceptional individual to work alongside 200 other staff to make up our education family. Specifically, we are looking for a Bi-lingual Teaching Assistant preferably fluent in preferably fluent in one of the languages spoken at CHCC to work as part of the English as an Additional Language (EAL) department.

You would join a well-established EAL department comprising the Head of Department, 3 EAL Specialist teachers (one Full-time and two part-time) and a team of 3 Bi-lingual Teaching Assistants. We currently have 77% of students for whom English is not their rst language. Out of these students, 15% are known as International New Arrivals (INA's) having been in the UK for less than three years at the point of admission to Crown Hills Community College.

Over the past three years, the school has changed significantly not only in its performance but in the way it operates. We are not interested in the OFSTED grade or judgement and it is not something that we use to threaten staff with nor do we use it to set policy. We do what is best for the staff and the students underpinned by a set of clear values and we trust that everything else will take care of itself. I would therefore, urge you to visit us and to look at our website and the video about what it is that we stand for and why you would want to join us.

I want us to be at the forefront of educational excellence because we want to provide the best educational experience possible for the children in our care. This is extremely difficult in a climate of ever-increasing accountability and diminishing resources. However, I sincerely believe that if we lead this community by staying true to our values then it is possible.

I have therefore spent time with staff and exploring what it is we stand for and, after a school-wide consultation, we have decided that ASPIRATION, COMMITMENT and SUCCESS are the three key drivers that will support the development of our pupils.

We believe that the curriculum is king and that the way it is sequenced, will help our students to make progress. We have taken a very clear stance on knowledge-first teaching and place an emphasis on memory recall as well as responsive teaching. In order to be successful you need to buy into this pedagogy and practice as it underpins our philosophy and the way the curriculum should be delivered to our students. As a member of support staff who supports the delivery of the curriculum, it is important you understand and align to our college principles.

We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, poverty, wealth or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform and staff here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.