Sports Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Riverside Primary School

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Barking (IG11 0FU)

Closes in 17 days (Sunday 25 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 7 May 2025

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Summary

The Primary School Sports Apprentice is a member of the school support staff supporting the delivery of physical education and extracurricular sports activities for young students while gaining valuable experience and developing essential skills for future career in education or sports management.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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£7.55 per hour. This role is term-time only.

Training course
Teaching assistant (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday (8.45am to 4.15pm).

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

1 year 4 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

The Primary School Sports Apprentice is a member of the school support staff supporting the delivery of physical education and extracurricular sports activities for young students while gaining valuable experience and developing essential skills for future career in education or sports management. As a sports apprentice in a primary school setting, the role focuses on engaging and inspiring children to be active, healthy, and enjoying physical activity from an early age. To work as part of a team to promote the school’s ethos and values in the wider community

  • Assisting the PE teacher in planning and delivering engaging sports lessons and activities
  • Working across EYFS, KS1, and KS2 to support the teaching of PE
  • Supporting children in developing their physical skills and confidence
  • Supporting attendance at local sporting events
  • Promoting team games during lunch breaks for EYFS, KS1, and KS2
  • Organising and training teams to participate in sporting festivals and competitions
  • Running extracurricular activities
  • Carrying out other duties as directed by the PE Lead or senior leadership team
  • Supervising and teaching the PE curriculum under the guidance of the PE Coordinator, planning to achieve progression of learning through:
    • Identifying clear lesson objectives and specifying how they will be taught and assessed
    • Setting tasks that challenge pupils and ensure high levels of interest
    • Setting appropriate and demanding expectations
    • Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment
    • Providing clear lesson structures that maintain pace, motivation, and challenge
    • Making effective use of assessment to ensure coverage of the appropriate scheme of work
    • Ensuring effective teaching and best use of available time
    • Monitoring and intervening to ensure sound learning and discipline

Where you'll work

Renwick Road
Barking
IG11 0FU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

LET ME PLAY LIMITED

Your training course

Teaching assistant (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Apply strategies to support and encourage the development of independent learners.
  • Adapt communication strategies for the audience and context.
  • Apply behaviour management strategies in line with organisational policy.
  • Adapt resources to support all learners.
  • Communicate with teachers to ensure clarity of the TA’s role.
  • Apply teaching strategies to deliver learning activities or interventions.
  • Build relationships with learners, teachers, other professionals and stakeholders.
  • Comply with legislation, guidance, and procedures for Prevent, safeguarding and health & safety.
  • Support the well-being and mental health of learners.
  • Observe, record, and report on learners in line with organisational procedures.
  • Apply methods of formative assessment.
  • Use up to date technology safely, to support learning.
  • Encourage safe use of technology by learners.
  • Adapt teaching strategies to support all learners (for example, scaffolding, open questioning).
  • Identify and respond to pastoral and academic behaviours in learners.
  • Provide feedback to learners.
  • Apply strategies to support and encourage the development of independent learners.
  • Adapt communication strategies for the audience and context.
  • Apply behaviour management strategies in line with organisational policy.
  • Adapt resources to support all learners.
  • Communicate with teachers to ensure clarity of the TA’s role.
  • Apply teaching strategies to deliver learning activities or interventions.
  • Build relationships with learners, teachers, other professionals and stakeholders.
  • Comply with legislation, guidance, and procedures for Prevent, safeguarding and health & safety.
  • Support the well-being and mental health of learners.
  • Observe, record, and report on learners in line with organisational procedures.
  • Apply methods of formative assessment.
  • Use up to date technology safely, to support learning.
  • Encourage safe use of technology by learners.
  • Adapt teaching strategies to support all learners (for example, scaffolding, open questioning).
  • Identify and respond to pastoral and academic behaviours in learners.
  • Provide feedback to learners.

Your training plan

  • Qualification: Level 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification 
  • Duration of course: 16 months
  • Training Provider: LMP Education (Rated No 1 Training Provider in the UK!)
  • All learning delivered online/ remotely alongside placement at school

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

About this company

Riverside Primary is a small mixed community school which is based in Barking within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. We are fortunate to be housed in a fabulous modern building which boasts large class rooms that provide a clean and spacious environment for our children to learn in. We pride ourselves on providing a caring and friendly atmosphere associated with smaller schools.

After this apprenticeship

Possible full-time employment upon completion of the apprenticeship. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LET ME PLAY LIMITED

Horiya

horiya.haji@lmpeducation.org

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318631.

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Closes in 17 days (Sunday 25 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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