About The Role Main purpose of the job: As a HLTA, you will undertake the duties of a teaching assistant as well as providing specialist support to groups or individual pupils in their learning. You will be supporting teachers in establishing a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which children make good academic progress, and you will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. Objectives: Support for pupils and teachers Support pupil learning through the delivery of specific learning programmes, setting high expectations whilst encouraging their independence and building their confidence Promote inclusion, encouraging pupils to interact and work collaboratively Work with the SENCO and other teachers to assess the needs of individual children, contribute to and implement and evaluate Individual Education Plans Adapt and develop resources for EAL and SEND pupils, ensuring their safety and enabling them to access the curriculum Assist with follow-through for related services (speech/language/physical therapy etc.) Mentor students on a 1:1 and group basis, as well as planning and leading a series of booster and intervention sessions to tackle difficult topics Observe, record and feedback information of pupil performance Assist in creating materials for curriculum delivery and display boards Contributed to curriculum planning Assist with whole class teaching Give lessons planne