Kidgate Academy

Teaching Assistant x2

LGAT 5 - £25,550 pro rata - Actual Salary £19,034.75

Term Time, 195 days

Kidgate Academy is a larger than average Primary School set within spacious and welcoming grounds, serving over 400 pupils aged 4 to 11 in the heart of Louth. Our School’s strong reputation is founded on inclusivity and high standards for all pupils. Our dedicated and highly motivated staff maintain high expectations to ensure every pupil’s needs are met and talents nurtured. Each year group benefits from at least two teachers and teaching assistants working collaboratively to deliver a curriculum tailored to individual learning styles and abilities.

At Kidgate Academy, we are ‘growing kind hearts and curious minds’ – preparing pupils not just for academic success but for a life built on respect, resilience, and kindness.

Our team of dedicated staff embody this, and we are looking for two enthusiastic, passionate Teaching Assistants, who will share this ethos to enhance our existing outstanding teaching team.

To assist students, including those with SEN, to maximise access to the curriculum,

To work under the direction of the teacher in a class-based environment using teaching aides and other methods of support

To help support and promote the Academy behaviour policy.

Kidgate can offer you:

a great learning and working environment

to be truly part of an inclusive and supportive team

a platform in which you can be creative and innovative

fabulous, well-motivated, polite children, eager to learn

CPD opportunities and to have a 'voice' in how the school develops further

outstanding teaching and learning strategies and systems

an ethos which embodies the whole child and which underpins a commitment to ensuring children's social and emotional needs are met.

Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In line with our safer recruitment practices and statutory guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education, all applicants must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Additional pre-employment checks will also be carried out including online/social media check, satisfactory references and any other appropriate checks necessary in order to assess the suitability to work with children.