During school days, the job entails:
The Child’s Physical Well-Being + Physical Development:
- chaperoning them safely from the school to the centre (walking distance) ;
- ensuring good hygiene practices are followed by the children;
- ensuring children take their meals;
- ensuring they rest;
- ensuring they observe safety first at the centre (and not expose themselves or their friends to hazards);
- providing first aid and arranging quickly for medical attention should a child fall sick or sustain an injury;
- leading the children in physical exercises (during designated times);
- ensuring the children are safely received by their parents to go home at the end of each day.
The Child’s Emotional & Psychological Well-Being – Moral & Social Development:
- leading by example in imparting values to the children;
- creating opportunities for the children to acquire social skills/good etiquette and managing the children as they interact with each other – making sure they do so in ways that are polite, considerate and respectful;
- imbuing children with positive sense of self and the spirit of doing their best.
- listening to and counselling a child when he/she is upset and down – balancing the need to counsel and guide the child with respect for the child as a person;
The Child’s Schoolwork + Cognitive & Aesthetic Development:
- ensuring the children keep up with their schoolwork – homework assigned by the school;
- coaching and guiding children in areas/topics they are weak in – in their academic subjects – by way of providing topical exercises (e.g. with assessment books) and also with material that is not from the textbooks;
- providing children the opportunities to explore art, music, literature – things beyond their textbooks – and to exercise and express their creativity in these domains;
- helping children to find areas they are good in and to have the desire to learn new things.
During School Holidays (besides continuing to look into the above areas listed):
- looking after children at the centre and when the centre organizes excursions for them;
- creating and carrying out engaging enrichment activities where the children can explore and learn new things/skills and gain a better sense of self;
- Liaising and collaborating with external service providers and/or volunteers who carry out enrichment programmes for the children.
Other (admin) Duties:
- Interacting and liaising with parents on recurring administrative tasks – communicating updates, reminders, fee collections etc;
- Helping to keep the centre clean, neat and operationally well-functioning;
- Carrying out tasks assigned by the Head of Centre.
