Primary School Assistant (work experience)
Swingate Primary School
Chatham, Kent
03.2025 - 04.2025
- Maintained safe, clean and organised classroom environment.
- Supervised students during breaks and lunchtime, ensuring a safe and orderly environment.
- Supervised children during activities and play, helping maintain safety and proactively address behavioural problems.
- Assisted in overseeing children's activities during break times to promote safety and positive interactions. playtime activities during break times.
- Complied with policies and procedures relating to child protection, safeguarding and security.
- Managed classroom supplies and equipment, ensuring resources were well-maintained and readily available.
- Organised classroom spaces and materials to help teacher prepare for lessons.
- Assisted teachers in managing class behaviour using positive reinforcement and rewards schemes.
- Enhanced student wellbeing by encouraging health, safety and good behaviour.
- Enhanced reading skills through guided reading sessions, tracking progress and addressing challenges.
- Assisted in planning and preparing classroom materials, fostering an engaging learning environment.
- Helped lunchtime supervisors monitor children activities on playing fields and play equipment, ensuring safety was maintained.
- Monitored social interactions and modelled positive choices to improve connections and reduce conflicts.
- Prepared classrooms for lessons by setting workspaces, distributing teaching material and loading presentations onto interactive whiteboards.
- Moved with children between classes, keeping students in line and minimising disruptions.
- Maintained excellent student relationships by providing ongoing support.
- Assisted teachers in planning and participating in school trips, after school clubs and breakfast clubs.