Description The Pines Primary School - Red Lodge, Bury St Edmunds IP28 8WL £25,584 – £27,269 per annum (pro rata) 32 hours per week, term time plus 1 week (39 weeks a year) Permanent Reference: 6924 Required from February 2025. We are seeking a motivated and inspirational Pre-school Practitioner to join our amazing team at Pine Cones Pre-school, part of The Pines Primary School, located in Red Lodge (just off the A11). This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join us and work with the Pine Cones team to establish a creative and inspiring environment for children starting out on their learning journey. Pine Cones provides care for children from 8am - 4pm from ages three years to four. The position is for 32 hours per week between the hours of 8.45am— 3.15pm, plus extra hours as required, including the weekly staff meeting every other Thursday. This is for term time plus 5 training days (39 weeks per year). This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in beginning a career within the Pine Cones team to help promote our safe, exciting, stimulating environment where children can learn through the joy of discovery. At Pine Cones we follow the ‘In the Moment’ approach, where children develop and learn through high quality adult interaction and play. Main duties: to support with the planning and organising of activities and opportunities that extend learning. You will have the opportunity to learn how to produce a full and accurate activity plan and evaluation to support with the production of accurate and effective observations to assess the children’s progress and the effectiveness of the learning environment to support the development of the children with an early year’s curriculum framework to manage the children’s behaviour and routines in line with setting’s policies and guidelines to work within a key-worker system to work in partnership with parents/carers within the key-person system to maintain objective, accurate and up-to-date records that identify the children’s individual needs, abilities and progress, and use these as a focus for future planning to always maintain confidentiality to work within the setting’s health and safety guidelines and undertake specific tasks related to the safety and hygiene of the children and the pre-school to work within the setting’s child protection procedures to work within the setting’s equal opportunities policy to share tasks necessary as part of the general upkeep, tidiness, and cleanliness of the pre-school, and which contribute to the general well-being of the team to participate in outings and trips and be aware of additional responsibilities for the children’s safety that these necessitate to participate in and contribute to regular staff meetings and training to improve skills and knowledge and develop a positive attitude that enhances practice to assist in the support and supervision of students in the pre-school to undertake specific roles and responsibilities within the nursery to undertake any other tasks, as requested by the leaders, that are necessary for the smooth running of the pre-school and the welfare of the children in its care. This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties, and the post holder will be required to undertake any other reasonable duties discussed and directed by the line manager. About us: The Pines Primary School is a happy, creative and inclusive school that opened in 2018. We aim to ensure all our pupils are excited about coming into school each day and are enthused by their learning through every aspect of school life. Our ethos of ‘transforming lives through inspirational learning’ underpins everything we do and is reflected in the variety of learning opportunities on offer at The Pines. To find out more: For an informal discussion only, please contact Kerry Darby on 01638 790135 How to apply: Apply online at: Pre-school Practitioner_PineCones Preschool_webitrent Closing date: midday, 7 February 2025. Interview date: week commencing 10 February 2025. The Pines Primary School reserves the right to interview before the closing date. Promoted as FJ (Featured Job) on Suffolk Jobs Direct.