**Core Requirements of the Post**
- motivate and stimulate a child's learning abilities, often encouraging learning through experience
- provide pastoral care and support to children within a secure learning environment
- aid the development of a child's personal, social, language and physical coordination abilities
- develop and produce visual aids and teaching resources
- encourage mathematical and creative development through stories, songs, games, drawing and imaginative play
- help children develop curiosity and knowledge
- to plan and coordinate work both indoors and outdoors
- share knowledge gained with other practitioners and build and maintain relationships with parents
- observe, assess and record each child's progress
- ensure the health and safety of children and staff is maintained during all activities, both inside and outside the setting
- attend staff meetings and staff training days
- keep up to date with changes in the curriculum and developments in best practice.
**Promoting a Positive School Culture**
- Utilize grade level community meetings to promote the values and culture encompassed by the HLIS.
- Organize Early Years events and initiatives to promote the values and culture encompassed by the HLIS Promise.
- Celebrate student achievements and learner profile attributes through the lens of the HLIS Promise.
- Actively create opportunities and encourage ideas that allow students to display authentic leadership of themselves, their peers, and the wider school community.
- Actively support and promote the values and requirements of the educational programme.
- Effectively and correctly implement policy and procedures across their area of responsibility.
**Skills**
- Excellent communication and listening skills.
- Good organisational skills to plan the day and respond to the different needs of the children you teach
- The ability to inspire and enthuse young children
- Resourcefulness, patience, and a caring nature
- An understanding of the needs and feelings of children
- Ability to work independently with children, as well as being able to work in the wider Early Years/school team
- A sense of humour and the ability to keep things in perspective
- Ideas and creativity to plan resources and carry out activities such as dance, drama, music, arts, and crafts
- Stamina to keep up with the needs and energy of a large group of lively children
- Attention to detail for carrying out observations and reporting back to parents and other professionals
**Removing Barriers to Learning**
- Devise and follow pastoral systems that optimize the academic and emotional wellbeing of the students
- Provide extra support for students who have difficulty adhering to the expectations of HLIS
- Liaise with the Learning Support department and Counselling department to help students overcome any barriers to learning
- Ensure that the individual needs of every student are met
- Provide effective and sensitive induction and transition programmes for students and their families
- Allocate students to classes that balance a variety of considerations, including friendship groups, prior academic achievement, language needs, gender balance, LS needs, etc.
- Maintain your own informal student records based on information gathered
- Be a visible presence in the lives of the students in the grade level and intervene with students needing extra support
**Safeguarding and Wellbeing**
- Through developing relationships with parents and students, be alert to potential and vigente safeguarding issues and report to the Safeguarding Team
- Support the Safeguarding Team, as and when appropriate, to ensure a safe school environment for each and every student in the Early Years
- Support the development of student wellbeing both proactively, planning events and initiatives; and reactively, by addressing incidents and themes relevant to the grade level
**Parent Communication**
- Engage parents as partners in student learning - both socio-emotional and academic, leading to positive and effective contribution to raising standards
- Respond to parental enquiries in a timely and empathetic manner
- Actively promote the work of the Early Years Team, informally in conversation
- Support the MAC team by providing content for social media, meeting prospective parents, and onboarding families
**PERSON SPECIFICATIONS**
**Qualifications/Training**
- Degree or teaching qualification-Essential
**Experience / Knowledge**
- At least one year as an Early Years Teacher - Essential
- English (native level) - Essential
- Personal commitment to continuing professional development. - Essential
- The monitoring, assessment, recording, and reporting of pupils' progress - Essential
- The requirements of a class teacher to adhere to all school policies, particularly those pertaining to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, and Child Protection - Essential
- Effective teaching and learning styles - Essential
- The theory and practice of providing ef