Woodard Academies Trust (Polam Hall School) are looking for an enthusiastic and aspiring Sports teaching assistant to join their team. Your role would be to provide high quality sports coaching before, during and after school to help promote the importance of physical education, school sport and physical activity. Working week Monday to Friday - Term time only 08:00am-16:00 37 hours per week total Wage £8.60 per hour Qualification Teaching Assistant level 3 (sports pathway) Duration: 16 Months Training Provider: LMP Education Duties and Responsibilities Support with delivery of resources for physical education and sport activities through preparing, maintaining and deploying resources to assist teaching Assist in ensuring the sport inventory is kept up to date alongside the relevant staff. To assist in the teaching of physical education through leading activities with class teachers. Contribute to the planning of lessons and work programmes and devising of suitable activities Support the teaching and learning of individuals or groups of pupils, using support strategies to the needs of the pupils and liaising with staff over any issues Assist teachers in the evaluation and revision of lessons and work programmes Promote fair play and good sporting behaviour and implement the school’s behaviour and any related policies Continue to develop and promote physical activity outside of school To provide high quality sports coaching before, during and after school to help promote the importance of physical education, school sport and physical activity. At times, you may be required to support across the school in other areas if necessary and to gain skills across curriculum Contribute towards competitive sport provision and day to day sport within the PE department Further develop links with local schools to help with competitive sport and physical activity provision Increase physical activity levels before, during and after the school day Assist with improvement of staff development within the area of Physical Education and School Sport To assist the school in its day to day duties To contribute to the overall ethos, work & aims of the school Develop an understanding of policies & procedures, complying with their contents and raising concerns in a timely manner Skills and Attributes • Knowledge of/willingness to learn about how children develop • How to support children in sport and other aspects of learning; how children learn and how to motivate them etc. • Knowledge and understanding of/willingness to learn about behaviour management strategies • Able to communicate and break down information to make it learnable • Motivated and enthusiastic • A confident communicator • Professionally presented • Punctual and reliable • Problem solving and ability to set up class activities • Good knowledge and ability in a good cross section of sport Qualifications • You must have GCSE English and maths grade A- C / 9 - 4 (or equivalent) About the employer Polam Hall School is a 4 – 16 all-through academy and is part of Woodard Academies Trust. We have 790 pupils on roll, with one and a half forms of entry in our Primary Phase and four forms in our Second-ary Phase. Polam Hall is a school with a unique and long history which today is proud to be a fully com-prehensive school serving the young people of Darlington. Our mission is to educate the whole child, de-veloping leadership, compassion, character and academic ambition, through the combination of our Ac-ademic and Concordia Crescimus curricula. We have high expectations and aspirations for every mem-ber of our school community. https://www.woodardacademies.co.uk/ LMPTA