Teaching Assistant Apprentice at Altmore Infant School
London Borough of Newham
East Ham (E6 2BX)
Closes on Monday 30 March 2026
Posted on 14 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Altmore Infant School is a large five form Infant School with Nursery provision for 2-year-olds, 3-4-year-olds and Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children. We are based in East Ham. We are looking for somebody who enjoys being with children and can develop warm, positive relationships and will be an excellent and enthusiastic practitioner.
- Wage
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£12,955.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Teaching assistant (level 3)
- Hours
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Please ensure you can travel to the school and commit to the hours 8.30am - 3.30pm, 30-minute lunch break.
33 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 April 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
We are looking for someone who is keen to learn and develop their skills:
- Safeguarding practices within education
- How to work with children under the age of 7 years old
- The EYFS and KS1 National curriculum
- Children who present with social communication difficulties, ASD and speech, language & communication difficulties
- Supporting children with interventions, including teaching
Phonics using the Read Write Inc programme
Day to day activities will include:
- Supporting children with their learning
- Supporting the class teacher with admin work (e.g. photocopying, etc.)
- Delivering a phonics session daily
- Possible interventions with small groups of children
- Playtime supervision
Where you'll work
Altmore Infant School
Altmore Avenue
East Ham
E6 2BX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
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.
Training schedule
This apprenticeship is delivered as a weekly day release at our site in Stratford, E15.
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship Standard
- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 / C or above)
- Maths (grade 4 / C or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
This is a school based role. Please ensure you can commit to the role and duties before applying.
About this employer
Altmore is a large, friendly, multi-ethnic, inclusive Infant school, with a Children’s Centre, Pre-School and Nursery EYFS all on the same site. We serve a diverse community in East Ham, in the London Borough of Newham, East London. Our Pre-School and Nursery are part of the Infant school – where we also have specialist sensory provision, as well as soft play provision in our Children’s Centre, which is used by our school and local community. We work in a Hard Federation with our feeder Junior School (Lathom).
After this apprenticeship
- There is an opportunity to secure a permanent position after successfully completing the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000008553.
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Closes on Monday 30 March 2026